No CrossRef data available.
Article contents
Extract
Ruskin said ‘Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts, the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art. Nor one of these books can be understood unless we read the two others, but of the three the only trustworthy one is the last.’
- Type
- Papers
- Information
- Copyright
- Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy and the contributors 2001
References
1 Kenneth Clark, Civilisation (1969) in the Penguin Edition (1982), pp. 17–18.
2 Janaway, Christopher, in ‘Beauty’ in The Oxford Companion to Philosophy (Oxford University Press, 1995), p. 80.Google Scholar
3 Motershill, Mary, in ‘Beauty’ in A Companion to Aesthetics (Blackwell: Oxford, 1992), p. 44.Google Scholar
4 Stolnitz, Jerome, in ‘Beauty’ in The Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Macmillan Publishers: New York, 1967), Vol. I, p. 262.Google Scholar
5 in Danto, Arthur C's Philosophizing Art (University of California Press: Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1999), pp. 123–43.Google Scholar
6 ibid., p. 134.
7 ibid., p. 135.
8 In Modern Painters, Vol. 2, No. 2, Summer 1989, pp. 55–9Google Scholar.
9 Ibid., pp. 55–6.
10 Ibid., p. 57.
11 On this aspect of Ruskin's thought, see Fuller, Peter's Theoria (Chatto & Windsor: London, 1988)Google Scholar, esp Ch. 4.