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John Ruskin and Switzerland

Autor: John Hayman

Número de Páginas: 152

An authoritative work interspersed with nearly one hundred of John Ruskin’s Swiss drawings recounts his lifelong interest in Switzerland. Hayman provides a chronological account of Ruskin’s visits to Switzerland from his earliest travels in 1833 and 1835 and his frequent tours of the 1840s to the final visits in the 1880s. Of particular concern is Ruskin’s intention between approximately 1855 and 1865 to engrave his own drawings of Swiss towns for a work illustrative of Swiss history. Drawings of the historic Swiss towns in which Ruskin was most interested — Baden, Bellinzona, Brugg, Fribourg, Geneva, Laufenburg, Lucerne, Neuchâtel, Rheinfelden, Schaffhausen, and Thun — are introduced by excerpts from John Murray’s A Handbook for Travellers in Switzerland (1856). Hayman has traced a great many Swiss drawings Ruskin referred to in his letters and diaries and has located twenty-three previously unpublished ones which appear in his book. Ruskin’s well-documented defence of J.M.W. Turner is also brought to light as the author has juxtaposed reproductions of Turner’s sketches of Swiss towns with drawings by Ruskin. This work will not only interest scholars and students ...

John Ruskin

Autor: Timothy Hilton

Número de Páginas: 1030

John Ruskin, one of the greatest writers and thinkers of the nineteenth century, was also one of the most prolific. Not only did he publish some 250 works, but he also wrote lectures, diaries, and thousands of letters that have not been published. This book draws on the original source material to give a moving account of the life of this brilliant and creative man.

The Life and Work of John Ruskin

Autor: William Gershom Collingwood

Número de Páginas: 310

Three Letters and an Essay by John Ruskin 1836-1841. Found in his tutor's desk

Autor: John Ruskin

Número de Páginas: 49

In "Three Letters and an Essay," John Ruskin beautifully articulates his early reflections on art, architecture, and society, penned between 1836 and 1841. Enhanced by a distinctive prose style that mingles lyrical elegance with rigorous analysis, these writings serve as a prelude to Ruskin's later, more extensive works. The letters, discovered in his tutor's desk, offer a glimpse into his formative thoughts, which were deeply influenced by the Romantic ideals of beauty and truth, as well as the socio-political upheavals of early Victorian England. Ruskin's engagement with the visual arts is not merely aesthetic but also ethical, as he wrestles with the implications of craftsmanship and the moral responsibilities of the artist. John Ruskin (1819-1900), a polymath and influential art critic, drew inspiration from his early education under notable figures such as his tutor, John Thomas Jones. His upbringing in a mercantile family exposed him to the intersections between commerce and artistry, shaping his beliefs about the importance of integrating beauty into everyday life. This period marked the inception of Ruskin's lifelong advocacy for social reform through art, which would...

The Works of John Ruskin: Modern painters, v.1-5

Autor: John Ruskin

Número de Páginas: 512

John Ruskin: Praeterita

Autor: John Ruskin

Número de Páginas: 624

Praeterita is perhaps the best-loved of all the fruits of Ruskin's many-sided and tormented genius. This exceptional biography - the first of Ruskin's works in the Whitehouse edition - simultaneously presents a deeply reflective portrait of an early 19th-century Protestant family - its genuine piety, its severities, its suffocating possessive affections - and the product (at once intellectually brilliant and emotionally damaged) of its educational system.

Matthew Arnold, John Ruskin, and the Modern Temper

Autor: Edward Alexander

Número de Páginas: 336

Proust et Ruskin

Autor: Jérôme Bastianelli

Número de Páginas: 498

Entre 1899 et 1906, Marcel Proust consacre l'essentiel de son temps à l'étude des textes de John Ruskin (1819-1900). Ce penseur britannique, à la fois critique d'art et réformiste social, a laissé une oeuvre monumentale dont le jeune écrivain va nourrir ses réflexions sur la place de l'art dans la vie, la symbolique de l'architecture gothique, la prédominance de la sensation sur la réflexion ou les mécanismes de la mémoire involontaire. Enthousiasmé par ces découvertes, Proust publie de nombreux articles sur Ruskin et traduit deux de ses livres: La Bible d'Amiens et Sésame et les Lys. Le premier est une célébration historique et littéraire de l'une des plus belles cathédrales de France. Le second réunit deux conférences de Ruskin, l'une sur la nécessité fondatrice de la lecture, dont il déplore la désaffection chez les Anglais; l'autre sur la place de la femme dans une société en pleine mutation, entre tradition et industrialisation. Plus encore qu'une traduction, le travail minutieux de Proust, accompagné d'une annotation abondante, procède d'une véritable confrontation avec la pensée originale de Ruskin. Proust élabore par là son univers en...

Ruskin's Culture Wars

Autor: Judith Stoddart

Número de Páginas: 220

In Ruskin's Culture Wars, Judith Stoddart provides the first sustained modern critical reading of Fors Clavigera, placing this classic work in the context of its Victorian contemporaries: art journals, liberal and working-class periodicals, and popular criticism. In recreating the intellectual climate, she demonstrates the sense of cultural crisis and change evident at the time. Rebelling against the tendency to treat Ruskin's letters as the prose lyric of a damaged psyche, Stoddart shows how the cumulative text of Fors Clavigera not only records but revises and redirects the preoccupations of his period. He was an integral part of Victorian discussions of literary tradition and of the roles of democracy and nationality in late-nineteenth-century Europe.

Ruskin

Autor: Francis O'gorman

Número de Páginas: 71

John Ruskin was one of the greatest Victorian critics of art and society, but he was also preoccupied with politics, economics and education. This pocket-sized biography explores his influence on his own age and ours, examining his work, his relationships and his creative life.

Ruskin's Educational Ideals

Autor: Sara Atwood

Número de Páginas: 219

Focusing on John Ruskin as a teacher and on his greatest educational work, Fors Clavigera, Sara Atwood examines Ruskin's varied roles in education, the development of his teaching philosophy and style, and his vision for educational reform. Atwood maintains that the letters of Fors Clavigera constitute not only a treatise on education but a dynamic educational experiment, serving to set forth Ruskin's ideas about education while simultaneously educating his readers according to those very ideas. Closely examining Ruskin's life and writings, her argument traces the development of his moral aesthetic and increasing involvement in social reform; his methods and approach as an art instructor; and his dissatisfaction with contemporary educational practice. A chapter on Ruskin's legacy takes account of his influence on late Victorian and Edwardian educators, including J. H. Whitehouse and the Bembridge School; the Ruskin colonies in Tennessee, Florida, and Georgia; and the relevance of Ruskin's ideas to ongoing educational debates about teacher pay, state/national testing, retention, and the theory of the competent child. Historically well-grounded and forcefully argued, Atwood's study...

Ruskin

Autor: Sheila Emerson

Número de Páginas: 310

A remarkable study of how early literary, familial, sexual, and social experiences affect artistic identity.

Building Ruskin's Italy

Autor: Stephen Kite

Número de Páginas: 231

Based on extensive fieldwork, and research into John Ruskin's still little-interpreted archival material, notebooks and drawings (in the Ruskin Library, Lancaster University, UK and elsewhere), Stephen Kite offers an unprecedented account of the evolution of Ruskin's architectural thinking and observation in the context of Italy where his watching of building achieved its greatest intensity. Venice naturally figures large in a work that also examines other key sites including Verona, Lucca, Pisa, Florence, Milan and Monza; here, the fabrics are vividly read in their contexts against the rich evidence of Ruskin's diaries, his pocket-book sketches, architectural worksheets, drawings, and daguerrotypes (the early form of photography), and the drafts and published editions of the texts. Kite presents the complex story of Ruskin's visual thinking in architecture as a narrative of deepening interpretation and representation, focusing on the humbler monuments of Italy. He shows how Ruskin's early picturesque naturalism was transformed by the realisation that to understand the built realities confronting him in Italy demanded a closer engagement with the substance of the stones...

Ruskin and Social Reform

Autor: Gill Cockram

Número de Páginas: 280

In the first book to analyse the form and influence of Ruskin's social theory, Gill Cockram looks at Ruskin's significant contribution to social and intellectual thought in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In a field often overlooked by 19th century historians, "Ruskin and Social Reform" clarifies for the first time how Ruskin's social theory was disseminated to a much wider readership than was evident in the mid-nineteenth century and how it was that Ruskin achieved great prominence as a social philosopher. Cockram examines the chronological development of Ruskin's thought and establishes the extent of his influence among the nascent labour movement. It was the support of a thinker as original and as unconventional as Ruskin that helped to challenge the laissez-faire conformities of classical economics and launched the quest to find a more ethical and humane basis for social policy-making.

Finishing in Architecture

Autor: Paul Emmons , Marcia Feuerstein , Negar Goljan

Número de Páginas: 428

Finishing in Architecture: Polishing, Completing, Ending explores the topic of finishing and the fascinating physical and metaphysical implications of its various conceptions in architecture. Finishing is essential to all human practices and concepts of time, yet simultaneously it is largely impossible to identify an entirely finished state of being. As mortals, we organize our worlds into beginnings and endings, starts and finishes. Architecture’s temporality, however, may contain something of both the mortal and immortal within it – a desire for permanence combined with lamentation over its impossibility. While many approaches to finishing construct two opposed ontological conditions (the finished and the unfinished), this dualistic ploy neglects the complexity of architectural practice, cultural reception, and historiographic shifts in semiotics during the lifetime of a building. More nuanced approaches are examined in this collection of 38 essays and creative works from a diverse group of scholars, architects, and artists who conceptualize finishing not simply as a final outcome, but as an extended action, a mood that presumes an end is near, all the while working...

Late Ruskin: New Contexts

Autor: Francis O'gorman

Número de Páginas: 280

This title was first published in 2001. Ruskin said that 1860 marked the beginning of his 'proper work'. This study presents new, historicized readings of important texts and themes from that late period, 1860-1889, discussing in detail works including Unto this Last (1860), the Lectures on Art (1870), Fors Clavigera (1871-1884), and The Bible of Amiens (1880-85), and considering key themes such as Ruskin's politicized regard for Pre-Raphaelitism in the 1870s, and the complex topic of Ruskin and manliness. Claiming new and distinctive importance for this period of Ruskin's work, both in terms of Ruskin's development as a writer and his place in Victorian culture as it moved toward modernity, this book is the first solely devoted to the prolific later years, and draws on much unpublished material.

Ruskin and Gender

Autor: Dinah Birch , Francis O'gorman

Número de Páginas: 225

For many years Ruskin has seemed, at best, a conservative thinker on gender roles. At worst, his lecture On Queens' Gardens from Sesame and Lilies was read as a locus classicus of Victorian patriarchal oppression. These essays challenge such assumptions, presenting a wide-ranging revaluation of Ruskin's place in relation to gender, and offering new perspectives on continuing debates on issues of gender - in the Victorian period, and in our own.

Reading Ruskin’s Cultural Heritage

Autor: Gill Chitty

Número de Páginas: 133

John Ruskin's critical commentary on culture and society, transformative in his own time, established him as a leading critic of the 19th century. His prescient thinking resonates powerfully with today’s issues in cultural heritage conservation. This volume presents his ideas in context, key extracts from his works and future directions for his foundational ideas. Ruskin’s passionate responses to the environmental and social changes of his day chime with contemporary ideas on themes like sustainability, ethical production and environmentalism. Though widely recognised as a key figure in preservation history, his heritage work is rarely appreciated in full context and breadth. This volume presents six stimulating essays on Ruskin’s readership and reception, his transformative perceptions of heritage futures and provocative writing on cultural landscapes and the arts and crafts. Extracts from both well-known and lesser-known works accompany each chapter to reflect the distinctive vocality of his texts, from his writing on architecture and buildings, to landscape and cultural heritage. The volume offers a richer description of cultural context and meaning than usually afforded...

The Enchantments of Mammon

Autor: Eugene Mccarraher

Número de Páginas: 817

“An extraordinary work of intellectual history as well as a scholarly tour de force, a bracing polemic, and a work of Christian prophecy...McCarraher challenges more than 200 years of post-Enlightenment assumptions about the way we live and work.” —The Observer At least since Max Weber, capitalism has been understood as part of the “disenchantment” of the world, stripping material objects and social relations of their mystery and magic. In this magisterial work, Eugene McCarraher challenges this conventional view. Capitalism, he argues, is full of sacrament, whether one is prepared to acknowledge it or not. First flowering in the fields and factories of England and brought to America by Puritans and evangelicals, whose doctrine made ample room for industry and profit, capitalism has become so thoroughly enmeshed in the fabric of our society that our faith in “the market” has become sacrosanct. Informed by cultural history and theology as well as management theory, The Enchantments of Mammon looks to nineteenth-century Romantics, whose vision of labor combined reason, creativity, and mutual aid, for salvation. In this impassioned challenge to some of our most firmly...

A Literary History of England Vol. 4

Autor: A Baugh

Número de Páginas: 857

First published in 1959. The scope of this four volume work makes it valuable as a work of reference, connecting one period with another an placing each author clearly in the setting of his time. This is the fourth volume and includes the Nineteeth Century and after (1789-1939).

Ruskin After 200

Autor: Sara L. Maurer , Judith Stoddart , Deanna K. Kreisel , Amy Woodson-boulton

Número de Páginas: 252

This edited volume offers new models for engaging with the work of John Ruskin, the Victorian art critic, architectural and educational theorist, amateur meteorologist and naturalist who gradually became an outspoken critic of capitalist economics and industrialization’s toll on the environment. Two hundred years after Ruskin’s birth, his relevance to art, literature, history, architecture, economics and natural science has not ebbed. However, the nature of Ruskin’s relevance has evolved considerably. This volume offers a cross-section of current scholarship, showing how a range of scholars continue to engage with Ruskin’s work in their research. The chapters provide a snapshot both of what scholars need from Ruskin now and how they continue to develop methodologies that allow them to keep in honest conversation with his writing – work that is wide-ranging, visionary and nuanced, but also elusive, promiscuously mixing the symbolic and scientific, and at times, deeply marred by the shortcomings of sexism, racism and rigid hierarchical thinking.

Ruskin and Environment

Autor: Michael Wheeler

Número de Páginas: 256

Best known today as an art critic and social theorist, John Ruskin (1819-1900) was also an acute observer and recorder of the natural environment, and of the impact of Victorian industrialisation and urbanisation upon it. He argued passionately against railways and tourism, river pollution and acid rain, and as passionately for the care of ancient buildings and improved sanitation in urban slums.

Persistent Ruskin

Autor: Keith Hanley

Número de Páginas: 271

Examining the wide-ranging implications of Ruskin's engagement with his contemporaries and followers, this collection is organized around three related themes: Ruskin's intellectual legacy and the extent to which its address to working men and women and children was realised in practice; Ruskin's followers and their sites of influence, especially those related to the formation of collections, museums, archives and galleries representing values and ideas associated with Ruskin; and the extent to which Ruskin's work constructed a world-wide network of followers, movements and social gestures that acknowledge his authority and influence. As the introduction shows, Ruskin's continuing digital presence is striking and makes a case for Ruskin's persistent presence. The collection begins with essays on Ruskin's intellectual presence in nineteenth-century thought, with some emphasis on his interest in the education of women. This section is followed by one on Ruskin's followers from the mid-nineteenth century into twentieth-century modernism that looks at a broad range of cultural activities that sought to further, repudiate, or exemplify Ruskin's work and teaching. Working-class...

All Great Art is Praise

Autor: Aidan Nichols

Número de Páginas: 632

13. The Political Economy of Art and Other Critical Matters -- 14. University with a Difference: The Oxford Lectures -- 15. From Tuscany to the Somme -- 16. Back to England Again -- Conclusion: Final Public Letters, Last Look at a Life -- Selected Bibliography -- Index of Names

Ruskin's Artists

Autor: Robert Hewison

Número de Páginas: 253

This was first published in 2000: A study of John Ruskin's engagement with art and architecture as a critic, a patron and a teacher. It offers insights into both his writings and the visual economy of the Victorian world. Each essay examines Ruskin's relationship with an individual artist or a distinct aspect of art practice. J.M.W. Turner, D.G. Rossetti, W. Holman Hunt and E. Burne-Jones are among those artists discussed whose personal relationships with Ruskin affected his critical writing. Ruskin's attitude to women artists and his approach to the teaching of art are given special attention.

Ruskin

Autor: Derrick Leon

Número de Páginas: 662

This book, first published in 1949, is an important work in Victorian studies, and directs light on Ruskin’s personal tragedy, his public life, and on the character of his work. This book will be of interest to students of history and cultural studies.

The Rise of Everyday Design

Autor: Monica Penick , Christopher Long , Harry Ransom Center

Número de Páginas: 257

This fresh look at the Arts and Crafts Movement charts its origins in reformist ideals, its engagement with commercial culture, and its ultimate place in everyday households.

Common Good Politics

Autor: Colin Tyler

Número de Páginas: 366

This book examines the British tradition of common good politics, both historically and in the contemporary world. We live in a time when many anti-Conservative parties and voters feel a profound sense of crisis and disorientation over political principles and policy directions. As a result, many people are turning to common good politics as an alternative to state-centred socialism and laissez-faire individualism. Colin Tyler explores the practical and intellectual history of the British idealist tradition, which flourished from the 1870s to the 1920s, before applying the principles of common good politics to contemporary issues. These issues include the positive roles that can be played by conflict within democratic societies, the radical demands of social justice in a diverse world, the continuing influence of Bush’s ‘war on terror’, international society and free speech under Tony Blair and David Cameron, and the relationships between economic migration, social justice and the common good. The book will appeal particularly to students and scholars interested in British politics, internationalism and political theory.

John Ruskin

Autor: Joan Evans

Número de Páginas: 474

One of the best of the Ruskin biographies, by the eminent medievalist & art historian. Dr. Evans, who has edited the diaries of Ruskin, has used them extensively in this study. Besides this new material, she has been able to use the facts which in late years have come to light concerning Ruskin's marriage & annulment. Between the personal side of Ruskin's life & his public career Dr. Evans has kept a just balance, & her book is a definitive study of this eminent Victorian. Illus.

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