Ruskin

Author : P. D. Anthony
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Art
ISBN : 0521252334

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John Ruskin's Labour by P. D. Anthony Pdf

John Ruskin was one of the great Victorians established while still young as an arbiter of taste in painting and architecture and as one of the greatest of all writers of English prose. When he was forty he decided to abandon the field in which his reputation had been secured in order to awaken the world to the peril of devastation which, he believed, would follow its preoccupation with profit and its subservience to a false economic doctrine. He regarded his social criticism as a duty, reluctantly accepted, to a society which had abandoned the traditional and religious values that had been the foundation of its civilization. Ruskin's labour, to which he devoted the rest of his life, was to bring a searching intelligence, considerable learning and a moral concern to providing a ruthless criticism of the values of Victorian England.

Author : Sara Atwood
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317060604

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Ruskin's Educational Ideals by Sara Atwood Pdf

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 is not only a valuable contribution to scholarship on Ruskin and the Victorian period but an enjoinder for us to reconsider how Ruskin's educational philosophy might be of benefit today.

Author : Stephen Kite
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781351572910

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Building Ruskin's Italy by Stephen Kite Pdf

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 themselves; reflecting Ruskin's sense of his task as a near-archaeological gleaning and gathering of remains 'hidden in many a grass grown court, and silent pathway, and lightless canal'.

Author : Jay Fellows
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400853984

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Ruskin's Maze by Jay Fellows Pdf

Professor Fellows presents a map of Ruskin's mind as it shifts from conditions of mastery to madness. In his study, he examines and transcribes the ways in which Ruskin observed his dislocation of imagination and shows how, in the very process of disintegration; he was enabled by his peculiar genius to transform the effects on his language and conceptualization into new forms of articulation under pain. Originally published in 1981. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : William Gershom Collingwood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B3865951

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The Life and Work of John Ruskin by William Gershom Collingwood Pdf

Author : Richard Herne Shepherd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Authors
ISBN : HARVARD:32044034524249

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The Bibliography of Ruskin by Richard Herne Shepherd Pdf

This volume provides a chronologically-arranged bibliographical list of John Ruskin's published writings in prose and verse from 1834 to 1878.

Author : William Henderson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134636549

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John Ruskin's Political Economy by William Henderson Pdf

This volume offers an exciting new reading of John Ruskin's economic and social criticism, based on recent research into rhetoric in economics. Willie Henderson uses notions derived from literary criticism, the rhetorical turn in economics and more conventional approaches to historical economic texts to reevaluate Ruskins economic and social criticism. By identifying Ruskin's rhetoric, and by reading his work through that of Plato, Xenophon, and John Stuart Mill, Willie Henderson reveals how Ruskin manipulated a knowledge base. Moreover in analysis of the writings of William Smart, John Bates Clark and Alfred Marshall, the author shows that John Ruskin's influence on the cultural significance of economics and on notions of economic well-being has been considerable.

Author : David Melville Craig
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : 0813925584

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John Ruskin and the Ethics of Consumption by David Melville Craig Pdf

The first book on the Victorian critic and public intellectual John Ruskin by a scholar of religion and ethics, this work recovers both Ruskin's engaged critique of economic life and his public practice of moral imagination. With its reading of Ruskin as an innovative contributor to a tradition of ethics concerned with character, culture, and community, this book recasts established interpretations of Ruskin's place in nineteenth-century literature and aesthetics, challenges nostalgic diagnoses of the supposed historical loss of virtue ethics, and demonstrates the limitations of any politics that eschews common purpose as vital to individual agency and social welfare. Although Ruskin's moralistic efforts did not always allow for democratic individuality, equality, and contestation, his eclecticism, Craig argues, helps to correct these problems. Further, Ruskin's interdisciplinary explorations of beauty, work, nature, religion, politics, and economic value reveal the ways in which his insights into the practical connections between aesthetics and ethics, and culture and character, might be applied to today's debates about liberal modernity today. With the triumph of global capitalism, and the near-silence of any opposing voice, Ruskin's model of an engaged reading of culture and his public practice of moral imagination deserve renewed attention. This book provides students in religion, politics, and social theory with a timely reintroduction to this timeless figure.

Author : John Ruskin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN : CUB:P101041705002

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Fors Clavigera by John Ruskin Pdf

Author : Ruskin Bond
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2008-02-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9788184750515

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BOOK OF HUMOUR by Ruskin Bond Pdf

A delectable offering from a writer who not only knows how to make us laugh but also knows how to laugh at himself Playful tigers; ‘ghosts’; elephants; crows and old favourites like Uncle Ken; Miss Bun; the author’s slightly eccentric grandfather and Bond himself weave in and out of the pages of this wildly eclectic; thoroughly delightful and absolutely irresistible anthology featuring previously unpublished pieces like ‘Respect Your Breakfast’ and ‘Uncle Ken Goes to Sea’ as well as beloved classics from Bond’s books. Marked by the signature charm and subtle wit of one of India’s best-loved writers; Ruskin Bond’s Book of Humour; will make even the hardened among us crack a smile.

Author : Lars Spuybroek
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-21
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781474243889

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The Sympathy of Things by Lars Spuybroek Pdf

'If there is one thing we can learn from John Ruskin, it is that each age must find its own way to beauty' writes Lars Spuybroek in The Sympathy of Things, his ground-breaking work which proposes a radical new aesthetics for the digital era. Spuybroek argues that we must 'undo' the twentieth century and learn to understand the aesthetic insights of the nineteenth-century art critic John Ruskin, from which he distils pointers for the contemporary age. Linking philosophy, design, and the digital, with art history, architecture, and craft, Spuybroek explores the romantic notion of 'sympathy', a core concept in Ruskin's aesthetics, re-evaluating it as the driving force of the twenty-first century aesthetic experience. For Ruskin, beauty always comprises variation, imperfection and fragility, three concepts that wholly disappeared from our mindsets during the twentieth century, but which Spuybroek argues to be central to contemporary aesthetics and design. Revised throughout, and a new foreword by philosopher Brian Massumi, this is a new edition of a seminal work which has drawn praise from fields as diverse as digital architecture and speculative realism, and will continue to be influential as it wrests Ruskin's ideas out of the Victorian era and reconstructs them for the modern age.

Author : John Hayman
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780889207851

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John Ruskin and Switzerland by John Hayman Pdf

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 of Ruskin but should also pique the interest of Turner scholars.

Author : Jay Fellows
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015002756230

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The Failing Distance by Jay Fellows Pdf

Author : John Ruskin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044086814233

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John Ruskin by John Ruskin Pdf

Author : John Ruskin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UVA:X000835388

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Praeterita by John Ruskin Pdf