The Works of John Ruskin

The fifth 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)

9781108008532, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 18 February 2010

568 pages, 27 b/w illus. 1 colour 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 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.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: general [DSB]