The Works of John Ruskin
The Works of John Ruskin
Edward Tyas Cook
Alexander Wedderburn
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GBPThe influence of John Ruskin (1819–1900), both on his own time and on artistic and social developments in the twentieth century, cannot be over-stated. He changed Victorian perceptions of art, and was the main influence behind 'Gothic revival' architecture. As a social critic, he argued for the improvement of the condition of the poor, and against the increasing mechanisation of work in factories, which he believed was dull and soul-destroying. The thirty-nine volumes of the Library Edition of his works, published between 1903 and 1912, are themselves a remarkable achievement, in which his books and essays - almost all highly illustrated - are given a biographical and critical context in extended introductory essays and in the 'Minor Ruskiniana' - extracts from letters, articles and reminiscences both by and about Ruskin. This fifth volume contains Volume 3 of Modern Painters.
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February 2010Paperback
9781108008532
568 pages
230 × 155 × 35 mm
0.93kg
27 b/w illus. 1 colour illus.
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Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Bibliographical note
- Modern painters, Volume III: Preface
- Part IV:
- 1. Of the received opinions touching the 'grand style'
- 2. Of realisation
- 3. Of the real nature of greatness of style
- 4. Of the false ideal: religious
- 5. Of the false ideal: profane
- 6. Of the true ideal: purist
- 7. Of the true ideal: naturalist
- 8. Of the true ideal: grotesque
- 9. Of finish
- 10. Of the use of pictures
- 11. Of the novelty of landscape
- 12. Of the pathetic fallacy
- 13. Of classical landscape
- 14. Of mediaeval landscape: the fields
- 15. Of mediaeval landscape: the rocks
- 16. Of modern landscape
- 17. The moral of landscape
- 18. Of the teachers of Turner
- Appendix
- Letters.
