The Works of John Ruskin: Volume 6: Modern Painters IV (Cambridge Library Collection - Works of John Ruskin)

Cambridge University Press, 10/1/2010
EAN 9781108008549, ISBN10: 1108008542

Paperback, 600 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 3.5 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 sixth volume contains Volume 4 of Modern Painters.

Introduction
Bibliographical note
Modern painters, Vol. IV
Preface
Part V. 'Of mountain beauty'
1. Of the Turnerian picturesque
2. Of Turnerian topography
3. Of Turnerian light
4. Of Turnerian mystery
as essential
5. Of Turnerian mystery
wilful
6. The firmament
7. The dry land
8. Of the materials of mountains
compact crystallines
9. Of the materials of mountains
slaty crystallines
10. Of the materials of mountains
slaty coherents
11. Of the materials of mountains
compact coherents
12. Of the sculpture of mountains
the lateral ranges
13. Of the scupture of mountains
the central peaks
14. Resulting forms
aiguilles
15. Resulting forms
crests
16. Resulting forms
precipices
17. Resulting forms
banks
18. Resulting forms
stones
19. The mountain gloom
20. The mountain glory
Appendix.