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 fourth volume contains volume 2 of Modern Painters.
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February 2010Paperback
9781108008525
492 pages
230 × 155 × 35 mm
0.93kg
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Table of Contents
- Introduction to Vol. 4
- Bibliographical note
- Preface to the re-arranged edition (1883)
- Synopsis of contents
- Part I. Modern Painters Vol. II (Containing the Text of All the Editions)
- Section 1. Of the Theoretic Faculty:
- 1. Of the rank and relations of the theoretic faculty
- 2. Of the theoretic faculty as concerned with pleasures of sense
- 3. Of accuracy and inaccuracy in impressions of sense
- 4. Of false opinions held concerning beauty
- 5. Of typical beauty
- 6. Of unity
- 7. Of repose
- 8. Of symmetry
- 9. Of purity
- 10. Of moderation
- 11. General inferences respecting typical beauty
- 12. Of vital beauty
- 13. Of generic vital beauty
- 14. Of vital beauty in man
- 15. General conclusions respecting the theoretic faculty
- Section 2. Of the Imaginative Faculty: Author's introductory note (1883)
- 1. Of the three forms of imagination
- 2. Of imagination associative
- 3. Of imagination penetrative
- 4. Of imagination contemplative
- 5. Of the superhuman ideal
- Part II: Addenda (1848)
- Epilogue (1883)
- Appendix.
