The Works of John Ruskin
The Works of John Ruskin
Edward Tyas Cook
Alexander Wedderburn
£41.99
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 fourteenth volume contains Ruskin's 'Academy Notes' and other writings on painting and painters.
Product details
February 2010Paperback
9781108008624
608 pages
230 × 155 × 35 mm
0.93kg
27 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Part I. Academy notes:
- 1. 1855
- 2. 1856
- 3. 1857
- 4. 1858
- 5. 1859
- 6. 1875. Part II. Letters and papers on pictures and artists:
- 1. Pre-Raphaelitism in Liverpool
- 2. Generalisation and the Scotch Pre-Raphaelites
- 3. John Leech's outlines
- 4. Ernest George's etchings
- 5. The Frederick Walker exhibition
- 6. Arthur Burgess
- 7. The black arts
- Part III. Notes on Samuel Prout and William Hunt:
- 1. William Hunt
- 2. Samuel Prout
- 3. Notes on the drawings
- 4. Indexes
- Appendixes.
