On Art and Life

On Art and Life
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 74
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ISBN-10 : 9781101651148
ISBN-13 : 1101651148
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Synopsis On Art and Life by : John Ruskin

Includes two of John Ruskin's famous essays: "The Nature of the Gothic" and "The Work of Iron" from his book The Stones of Venice. Ruskin's insights into the need for individual artistic freedom, and his disdain for the mass-production art of the Victorian era, radically altered society's perception of creative design and remain powerfully relevant to our ideas of beauty today.

John Ruskin

John Ruskin
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Total Pages : 234
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015002756271
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Synopsis John Ruskin by : Frederic Harrison

John Ruskin

John Ruskin
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Total Pages : 222
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ISBN-10 : IND:30000010397127
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Synopsis John Ruskin by : John Ruskin

Praeterita

Praeterita
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Total Pages : 372
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015063804267
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Rating : 4/5 (67 Downloads)

Synopsis Praeterita by : John Ruskin

Effie

Effie
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Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Total Pages : 307
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ISBN-10 : 9781429962384
ISBN-13 : 1429962380
Rating : 4/5 (84 Downloads)

Synopsis Effie by : Suzanne Fagence Cooper

Effie Gray, a beautiful and intelligent young socialite, rattled the foundations of England's Victorian age. Married at nineteen to John Ruskin, the leading art critic of the time, she found herself trapped in a loveless, unconsummated union after Ruskin rejected her on their wedding night. On a trip to Scotland she met John Everett Millais, Ruskin's protégé, and fell passionately in love with him. In a daring act, Effie left Ruskin, had their marriage annulled and entered into a long, happy marriage with Millais. Suzanne Fagence Cooper has gained exclusive access to Effie's previously unseen letters and diaries to tell the complete story of this scandalous love triangle. In Cooper's hands, this passionate love story also becomes an important new look at the work of both Ruskin and Millais with Effie emerging as a key figure in their artistic development. Effie is a heartbreakingly beautiful book about three lives passionately entwined with some of the greatest paintings of the pre-Raphaelite period.

Green Victorians

Green Victorians
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 216
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ISBN-10 : 9780226339986
ISBN-13 : 022633998X
Rating : 4/5 (86 Downloads)

Synopsis Green Victorians by : Vicky Albritton

From Henry David Thoreau to Bill McKibben, critics and philosophers have sought to demonstrate how a life without constant growth might still be rich and satisfying. Yet one crucial episode in the history of sustainability has been largely forgotten. "Green Victorians" recovers the story of a small circle of men and women led by political economist and art critic John Ruskin. "Green Victorians" explores how Ruskin s most enthusiastic followers turned his theory into practice in a series of ambitious local projects ranging from painting, hand-weaving, and wood-working to gardening, archaeology, story-telling, and children s education. This is a lively yet unsettling story, for while those in Ruskin s experimental community established a thriving handicraft industry and protected the Lake District from over-development, they paid a price. Richly illustrated, "Green Victorians" breaks new ground by connecting the ideas and practices of Ruskin s utopian community to the problems of ethical consumption then and now. "

Human-Built World

Human-Built World
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 237
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ISBN-10 : 9780226120669
ISBN-13 : 022612066X
Rating : 4/5 (69 Downloads)

Synopsis Human-Built World by : Thomas P. Hughes

To most people, technology has been reduced to computers, consumer goods, and military weapons; we speak of "technological progress" in terms of RAM and CD-ROMs and the flatness of our television screens. In Human-Built World, thankfully, Thomas Hughes restores to technology the conceptual richness and depth it deserves by chronicling the ideas about technology expressed by influential Western thinkers who not only understood its multifaceted character but who also explored its creative potential. Hughes draws on an enormous range of literature, art, and architecture to explore what technology has brought to society and culture, and to explain how we might begin to develop an "ecotechnology" that works with, not against, ecological systems. From the "Creator" model of development of the sixteenth century to the "big science" of the 1940s and 1950s to the architecture of Frank Gehry, Hughes nimbly charts the myriad ways that technology has been woven into the social and cultural fabric of different eras and the promises and problems it has offered. Thomas Jefferson, for instance, optimistically hoped that technology could be combined with nature to create an Edenic environment; Lewis Mumford, two centuries later, warned of the increasing mechanization of American life. Such divergent views, Hughes shows, have existed side by side, demonstrating the fundamental idea that "in its variety, technology is full of contradictions, laden with human folly, saved by occasional benign deeds, and rich with unintended consequences." In Human-Built World, he offers the highly engaging history of these contradictions, follies, and consequences, a history that resurrects technology, rightfully, as more than gadgetry; it is in fact no less than an embodiment of human values.

The life of John Ruskin

The life of John Ruskin
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Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Total Pages : 206
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ISBN-10 : 9791041818068
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Rating : 4/5 (68 Downloads)

Synopsis The life of John Ruskin by : William Gershom Collingwood

" If origin, if early training and habits of life, if tastes, and character, and associations, fix a man's nationality, then John Ruskin must be reckoned a Scotsman. He was born in London, but his family was from Scotland. He was brought up in England, but the friends and teachers, the standards and influences of his early life, were chiefly Scottish. The writers who directed him into the main lines of his thought and work were Scotsmen from Sir Walter and Lord Lindsay and Principal Forbes to the master of his later studies of men and the means of life, Thomas Carlyle. The religious instinct so conspicuous in him was a heritage from Scotland; thence the combination of shrewd common-sense and romantic sentiment; the oscillation between levity and dignity, from caustic jest to tender earnest; the restlessness, the fervour, the impetuosity all these are the tokens of a Scotsman of parts, and were highly developed in John Ruskin. P. 13In the days of auld lang syne the Rhynns of Galloway that hammer- headed promontory of Scotland which looks towards Belfast Lough was the home of two great families, the Agnews and the Adairs. The Agnews, of Norman race, occupied the northern half, centring about their island-fortress of Lochnaw, where they became celebrated for a long line of hereditary sheriffs and baronets who have played no inconsiderable part in public affairs. The southern half, from Portpatrick to the Mull of Galloway, was held by the Adairs (or, as formerly spelt, Edzears) who took their name from Edgar, son of Dovenald, one of the two Galloway leaders at the Battle of the Standard. Three hundred years later Robert Edzear who does not know his descendant and namesake, Robin Adair? settled at Gainoch, near the head of Luce Bay; and for another space of 300 years his children kept the same estate, in spite of private feud, and civil war, and religious persecution, of which they had more than their share..."

The Life of John Ruskin

The Life of John Ruskin
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Total Pages : 496
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ISBN-10 : HARVARD:HWP448
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Synopsis The Life of John Ruskin by : William Gershom Collingwood

The Life of John Ruskin

The Life of John Ruskin
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 582
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ISBN-10 : 9781108009713
ISBN-13 : 1108009719
Rating : 4/5 (13 Downloads)

Synopsis The Life of John Ruskin by :

In 1911, the New York Times alerted its readers to the forthcoming 'authoritative' biography of Ruskin with the words 'out of a life's devotion to Ruskin and the Herculean task of editing the definitive Ruskin, Mr E. T. Cook is to give us a definitive Ruskin biography also. It will have the authority of a brilliant Oxford scholar, combined with the charm and lightness of a style which makes Mr Cook one of the first of English journalists'. Cook had been given complete access to Ruskin's diaries, notebooks and letters by his literary executors, and Ruskin's family and friends co-operated fully with him. His depth of knowledge of, and sympathy for, his subject make Cook's biography a vital tool for anyone wishing to understand Ruskin's extraordinary achievements in so many fields. Volume 1 covers the period to 1860, the year in which the final volume of Modern Painters was published.