John Ruskin

The Works of John Ruskin

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 492
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Dezember 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 706g
• ISBN-13: 9781108008525
• ISBN-10: 1108008526
• Artikelnr.: 29365653

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. 4
Bibliographical note
Preface to the re-arranged edition (1883)
Synopsis of contents
Part I. Modern Painters Vol. II (Containing the Text of All the Editions)
Section 1. Of the Theoretic Faculty: 1. Of the rank and relations of the theoretic faculty
2. Of the theoretic faculty as concerned with pleasures of sense
3. Of accuracy and inaccuracy in impressions of sense
4. Of false opinions held concerning beauty
5. Of typical beauty
6. Of unity
7. Of repose
8. Of symmetry
9. Of purity
10. Of moderation
11. General inferences respecting typical beauty
12. Of vital beauty
13. Of generic vital beauty
14. Of vital beauty in man
15. General conclusions respecting the theoretic faculty
Section 2. Of the Imaginative Faculty: Author's introductory note (1883)
1. Of the three forms of imagination
2. Of imagination associative
3. Of imagination penetrative
4. Of imagination contemplative
5. Of the superhuman ideal
Part II: Addenda (1848)
Epilogue (1883)
Appendix.