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 twelfth volume contains Ruskin's lectures on architecture and painting.
Product details
February 2010Paperback
9781108008600
756 pages
230 × 155 × 35 mm
0.93kg
47 b/w illus. 1 colour illus.
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Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Part I. Lectures on Architecture and Painting (1854):
- 1. Architecture
- 2. Architecture
- 3. Turner and his works
- 4. Pre-Raphaelitism
- Part II. Reviews, Letters, and Pamphlets on Art (1844–1854):
- 1. Review of Lord Lindsay's 'History of Christian Art' (1847)
- 2. Review of Eastlake's 'History of Oil-Painting' (1848)
- 3. Samuel Prout (1849)
- 4. Letters on the Pre-Raphaelite artists (1851, 1854)
- 5. Pre-Raphaelitism (pamphlet, 1851)
- 6. Letters on the National Gallery (1847, 1852)
- 7. The opening of the Crystal Palace (pamphlet, 1854)
- Appendix
- Part III: Notes on the construction of sheepfolds (1851)
- Appendix
- Part IV: Letters on politics (1852).
