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 ninth volume contains Volume 1 of The Stones of Venice.
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February 2010Paperback
9781108008570
600 pages
230 × 155 × 35 mm
0.93kg
23 b/w illus. 4 colour illus.
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Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Bibliographical note
- Author's prefaces
- The Stones of Venice, Vol. I:
- 1. The quarry
- 2. The virtues of architecture
- 3. The six divisions of architecture
- 4. The wall base
- 5. The wall veil
- 6. The wall cornice
- 7. The pier base
- 8. The shaft
- 9. The capital
- 10. The arch link
- 11. The arch masonry
- 12. The arch load
- 13. The roof
- 14. The roof cornice
- 15. The buttress
- 16. Form of aperture
- 17. Filling of aperture
- 18. Protection of aperture
- 19. Superimposition
- 20. The material of ornament
- 21. Treatment of ornament
- 22. The angle
- 23. The edge and fillet
- 24. The roll and recess
- 25. The base
- 26. The wall veil and shaft
- 27. The cornice and capital
- 28. The archivolt and aperture
- 29. The roof
- 30. The vestibule
- Author's appendix.
