Author: John RuskinPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 832
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The Works of John Ruskin: Val D'Arno. The schools of Florence. Mornings in Florence. The shepherd's tower
Author: John RuskinVal D'Arno
Author: John RuskinThe Works of John Ruskin
Author: John RuskinJohn Ruskin, Late Work, 1870-1890
Author: Catherine W. MorleyPublisher: Dissertations-G
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 684
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The Athenaeum
Author: The Works of John Ruskin
Author: John RuskinAthenaeum and Literary Chronicle
Author: James Silk BuckinghamPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 834
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The Cambridge Companion to John Ruskin
Author: Francis O'GormanPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 131645357X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
John Ruskin (1819–1900), one of the leading literary, aesthetic and intellectual figures of the middle and late Victorian period, and a significant influence on writers from Tolstoy to Proust, has established his claim as a major writer of English prose. This collection of essays brings together leading experts from a wide range of disciplines to analyse his ideas in the context of his life and work. Topics include Ruskin's Europe, architecture, technology, autobiography, art, gender, and his rich influence even in the contemporary world. This is the first multi-authored expert collection to assess the totality of Ruskin's achievement and to open up the deep coherence of a troubled but dazzling mind. A chronology and guide to further reading contribute to the usefulness of the volume for students and scholars.
The Works of John Ruskin
Author: Material Inspirations
Author: Jonah SiegelPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198858000
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
This book is a study of the complex relationship between matter and idea that shaped the nineteenth-century culture of art, and that in turn determined the course of still-current accounts of art's nature and value. Fundamental questions about the effects of material conditions on the creation and reception of art arose as early as the nineteenth century, and put important pressures on later eras. The place of class distinctions in the making and reception of art, the relationship between copy and original, the effects of display on art appreciation, even the role of pleasure itself: this book treats these and related issues as productive conceptual challenges with an unresolved relationship to matter at their core. Drawing on recent scholarship on the history of art and its institutions, Material Inspirations places cultural developments such as the emergence of new sites for exhibition and the astonishing proliferation of printed reproductions alongside a wide range of texts including novels, poems, travel guidebooks, compendia of antiquities, and especially the great line of critical writing that emerged in the period. The study vivifies a dynamic era, which is still too often seen as static and unchanging, by emphasizing the transformations taking place throughout the period in precisely those areas that have appeared to promise little more than repetition or continuity: collection, exhibition, and reproduction. The book culminates with the two great critics of the period, John Ruskin and Walter Pater, but it also includes close analysis of other prose writers, as well as poets and novelists ranging from William Blake to Robert Browning, George Eliot to Henry James. Significant developments addressed include the vogue for the representation of Old Masters in the first half of the century, ongoing innovations in the creation and diffusion of reproductions, and the emergence of the field of art history itself. At the heart of each of these the book identifies a material pressure shaping concepts, texts, and works of art.