The Works of John Ruskin Volume 5: Modern Painters III (Cambridge Library Collection - Works of John Ruskin)
Cambridge University Press, 10/1/2010
EAN 9781108008532, ISBN10: 1108008534
Paperback, 568 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 3.3 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English
The influence of John Ruskin (1819–1900), both on his own time and on artistic and social developments in the twentieth century, cannot be over-stated. He changed Victorian perceptions of art, and was the main influence behind 'Gothic revival' architecture. As a social critic, he argued for the improvement of the condition of the poor, and against the increasing mechanisation of work in factories, which he believed was dull and soul-destroying. The thirty-nine volumes of the Library Edition of his works, published between 1903 and 1912, are themselves a remarkable achievement, in which his books and essays - almost all highly illustrated - are given a biographical and critical context in extended introductory essays and in the 'Minor Ruskiniana' - extracts from letters, articles and reminiscences both by and about Ruskin. This fifth volume contains Volume 3 of Modern Painters.
Introduction
Bibliographical note
Modern painters, Volume III
Preface
Part IV
1. Of the received opinions touching the 'grand style'
2. Of realisation
3. Of the real nature of greatness of style
4. Of the false ideal
religious
5. Of the false ideal
profane
6. Of the true ideal
purist
7. Of the true ideal
naturalist
8. Of the true ideal
grotesque
9. Of finish
10. Of the use of pictures
11. Of the novelty of landscape
12. Of the pathetic fallacy
13. Of classical landscape
14. Of mediaeval landscape
the fields
15. Of mediaeval landscape
the rocks
16. Of modern landscape
17. The moral of landscape
18. Of the teachers of Turner
Appendix
Letters.