John Ruskin
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Duke Classics
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English
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Originally published in "Cornhill" magazine in 1860, "Unto This Last" is a series of four essays on the politics of economics and capitalism by the prominent English art critic of the Victorian era John Ruskin. While Ruskin was most well-known for his writings on art, he was also an accomplished painter and an influential social philosopher and philanthropist. Considered by Ruskin himself as one of his most important works, the ideas introduced in...
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Duke Classics
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English
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In a unique 1869 take on Greek mythology, the influential Victorian-Edwardian sage considers the myth of the goddess Athena. Ruskin asks us to consider Athena-"in the heavens, the earth, and the heart"-as a vital force in the material world channeled by those leading virtuous lives and also as "the directress of the imagination and will."
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English
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This 1866 book is comprised of the lectures that Ruskin gave to various girls' schools on the fundamentals of mineralogy. Rather than in a lecture format, however, the information is conveyed in the form of a delightful dialogue between Ruskin and his students. Interesting and engaging.
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Project Gutenberg
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English
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In 1869 Ruskin was appointed the Slade Professor of Fine Art at Oxford. His inaugural lectures, delivered between February 8th and March 23rd of 1870, focused on the limits and elementary practice of art, and were published in book form later that year. In the lectures, Ruskin offers his keen insights on art and its relation to religion, morality, and every day life, as well as a detailed analysis on the meaning of line, light, and color. Ruskin later...
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Project Gutenberg
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English
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Excerpt: "My dear Reader,-Whether this book is to be of use to you or not, depends wholly on your reason for wishing to learn to draw. If you desire only to possess a graceful accomplishment, to be able to converse in a fluent manner about drawing, or to amuse yourself listlessly in listless hours, I cannot help you: but if you wish to learn drawing that you may be able to set down clearly, and usefully, records of such things as cannot be described...
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Ediciones UC
Pub. Date
2017
Language
Español
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John Ruskin (1819-1900) fue uno de los escritores británicos más importantes e influyentes del siglo xix. En 1860 decide publicar un ensayo con algunas ideas sobre economía titulado "The Roots of Honour" en la revista Cornhill, que sería el primero de tan solo cuatro textos que alcanzarían a ver la luz antes de que el editor les pusiera fin ante la presión de la opinión pública. A diferencia de los economistas de su época, Ruskin defendía...
17) Modern painters
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English
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Modern Painters is a five-volume work by the eminent Victorian art critic, John Ruskin. The work placed emphasis on symbolism in art, expressed through nature and it was influential on the early development of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Ruskin wrote Modern Paintings for 17 years updating it and adding later volumes in subsequent years. The book was primarily written as a defense of the later work of J. M. W. Turner. Ruskin argues that recent...
Author
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
1984.
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English
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In August of 1848, John Ruskin and his new bride visited northern France, for the gifted young critic wished to write a book that would examine the essence of Gothic architecture. By the following April, the book was finished. Titled The Seven Lamps of Architecture, it was far more than a treatise on the Gothic style; instead, it elaborated Ruskin's deepest convictions of the nature and role of architecture and its aesthetics. The book was published...
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The Herbert Press
Pub. Date
1991 (reprinted 2006)
Language
English
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Timeless work by one of the greatest art critics of all time begins with bare fundamentals and offers brilliant philosophical advice from sketching to the laws of color and composition. 48 illustrations.
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Publisher
Smith, Elder, & Co., 65, Cornhill
Pub. Date
1851.
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English
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A fairy tale of what happened to two men who tried to get rich in evil ways and of how the fortune they sought came to their younger brother, whose kind and loving heart prompted him to right action. Widely regarded as a masterpiece of 19th century stories for children.