The Works of John Ruskin

The fourth volume of the magisterial Library Edition (1903–1912) of the works of John Ruskin.

John Ruskin (Author), Edward Tyas Cook (Edited by), Alexander Wedderburn (Edited by)

9781108008525, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 18 February 2010

492 pages, 14 b/w illus.
23 x 15.5 x 3.5 cm, 0.93 kg

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 fourth volume contains volume 2 of Modern Painters.

Introduction to Vol. 4
Bibliographical note
Preface to the re-arranged edition (1883)
Synopsis of contents
Part I. Modern Painters Vol. II (Containing the Text of All the Editions)
Section 1. Of the Theoretic Faculty: 1. Of the rank and relations of the theoretic faculty
2. Of the theoretic faculty as concerned with pleasures of sense
3. Of accuracy and inaccuracy in impressions of sense
4. Of false opinions held concerning beauty
5. Of typical beauty
6. Of unity
7. Of repose
8. Of symmetry
9. Of purity
10. Of moderation
11. General inferences respecting typical beauty
12. Of vital beauty
13. Of generic vital beauty
14. Of vital beauty in man
15. General conclusions respecting the theoretic faculty
Section 2. Of the Imaginative Faculty: Author's introductory note (1883)
1. Of the three forms of imagination
2. Of imagination associative
3. Of imagination penetrative
4. Of imagination contemplative
5. Of the superhuman ideal
Part II: Addenda (1848)
Epilogue (1883)
Appendix.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: general [DSB]