The Works of John Ruskin 39 Volume Paperback Set: The Works of John Ruskin Volume 12: Lectures on Architecture and Painting (Cambridge Library Collection - Works of John Ruskin)
Cambridge University Press, 10/3/2010
EAN 9781108008600, ISBN10: 1108008607
Paperback, 756 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 3.8 cm
Language: 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 twelfth volume contains Ruskin's lectures on architecture and painting.
Introduction
Part I. Lectures on Architecture and Painting (1854)
1. Architecture
2. Architecture
3. Turner and his works
4. Pre-Raphaelitism
Part II. Reviews, Letters, and Pamphlets on Art (1844–1854)
1. Review of Lord Lindsay's 'History of Christian Art' (1847)
2. Review of Eastlake's 'History of Oil-Painting' (1848)
3. Samuel Prout (1849)
4. Letters on the Pre-Raphaelite artists (1851, 1854)
5. Pre-Raphaelitism (pamphlet, 1851)
6. Letters on the National Gallery (1847, 1852)
7. The opening of the Crystal Palace (pamphlet, 1854)
Appendix
Part III
Notes on the construction of sheepfolds (1851)
Appendix
Part IV
Letters on politics (1852).