The Works of John Ruskin
The Works of John Ruskin
Edward Tyas Cook
Alexander Wedderburn
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inc GSTThe 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 seventh volume contains Volume 5 of Modern Painters.
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February 2010Paperback
9781108008556
676 pages
230 × 155 × 35 mm
0.93kg
162 b/w illus. 1 colour illus.
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Table of Contents
- Introduction to Vol. 7
- Bibliographical note
- Part I. Modern Painters Vol. V (Containing the Text of All the Editions)
- Section 6. Of Leaf Beauty:
- 1. The earth-veil
- 2. The leaf-orders
- 3. The bud
- 4. The leaf
- 5. Leaf aspects
- 6. The branch
- 7. The stem
- 8. The leaf monuments
- 9. The leaf shadows
- 10. Leaves motionless
- Section 7. Of Cloud Beauty:
- 1. The cloud-balancings
- 2. The cloud-flocks
- 3. The cloud-chariots
- 4. The angel of the sea
- Section 8. Of Ideas of Relation - First, of Invention Formal:
- 1. The law of help
- 2. The task of the least
- 3. The rule of the greatest
- 4. The law of perfectness
- Section 9. Of Ideas of Relation - Second, of Invention Spiritual:
- 1. The dark mirror
- 2. The lance of Pallas
- 3. The wings of the lion
- 4. Dürer and Salvator
- 5. Claude and Poussin
- 6. Rubens and Cuyp
- 7. Of vulgarity
- 8. Wouvermans and Angelico
- 9. The two boyhoods
- 10. The Nereid's guard
- 11. The Hesperid Aeglé
- 12. Peace
- Epilogue (1888)
- Part II: Appendix.
