John Ruskin

The Works of John Ruskin

Herausgeber: Cook, Edward Tyas; Wedderburn, Alexander Dundas Oligvy

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 676
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Dezember 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 963g
• ISBN-13: 9781108008556
• ISBN-10: 1108008550
• Artikelnr.: 29353498

Autorenporträt

John Ruskin was an English writer, philosopher, art expert, and general know-it-all who lived from February 8, 1819, to January 20, 1900. He wrote about a lot of different things, like architecture, mythology, birds, literature, schooling, botany, politics, and the economy. Ruskin was very interested in Viollet le Duc's work and taught it to all of his students, including William Morris. He thought Viollet le Duc's Dictionary was "the only book of any value on architecture." Ruskin used a lot of different writing styles and literary types. Besides essays and treatises, he also wrote poems, gave talks, traveled guides and manuals, letters, and even a fairy tale. He also drew and painted scenes with rocks, plants, birds, scenery, buildings, and decorations in great detail. His early writings on art were written in a very complicated style. Over time, he switched to simpler language that was meant to get his ideas across more clearly. He always stressed the links between nature, art, and society in everything he wrote. Up until the First World War, Ruskin had a huge impact on the second half of the 1800s. After a time of decline, his reputation has steadily gotten better since the 1960s, when a lot of academic studies of his work came out.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction to Vol. 7
Bibliographical note
Part I. Modern Painters Vol. V (Containing the Text of All the Editions)
Section 6. Of Leaf Beauty: 1. The earth-veil
2. The leaf-orders
3. The bud
4. The leaf
5. Leaf aspects
6. The branch
7. The stem
8. The leaf monuments
9. The leaf shadows
10. Leaves motionless
Section 7. Of Cloud Beauty: 1. The cloud-balancings
2. The cloud-flocks
3. The cloud-chariots
4. The angel of the sea
Section 8. Of Ideas of Relation - First, of Invention Formal: 1. The law of help
2. The task of the least
3. The rule of the greatest
4. The law of perfectness
Section 9. Of Ideas of Relation - Second, of Invention Spiritual: 1. The dark mirror
2. The lance of Pallas
3. The wings of the lion
4. Dürer and Salvator
5. Claude and Poussin
6. Rubens and Cuyp
7. Of vulgarity
8. Wouvermans and Angelico
9. The two boyhoods
10. The Nereid's guard
11. The Hesperid Aeglé
12. Peace
Epilogue (1888)
Part II: Appendix.