Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin (two volumes) (1894 & 1900) Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin (two volumes) (1894 & 1900) Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin (two volumes) (1894 & 1900)
Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin (two volumes) (1894 & 1900) Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin (two volumes) (1894 & 1900) Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin (two volumes) (1894 & 1900)

Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin (two volumes) (1894 & 1900)

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Published by George Allen, 1894 & 1900, hardcovers, indices,  first series 1843-1860, second series 1860-1888,  green cloth boards with gilt lettering, art. education.ethics. economy. religion, 488 pp. Hand cut pages518 pages & 488 pages, condition: very good.

John Ruskin  was an English polymath a writer, lecturer, art historian, art critic, draughtsman and philanthropist of the Victorian era. He wrote on subjects as varied as art, architecture, political economy, education, museology, geology, botany, ornithology, literature, history, and myth.Ruskin's writing styles and literary forms were equally varied. He wrote essays and treatises, poetry and lectures, travel guides and manuals, letters and even a fairy tale. He also made detailed sketches and paintings of rocks, plants, birds, landscapes, architectural structures and ornamentation. The elaborate style that characterised his earliest writing on art gave way in time to plainer language designed to communicate his ideas more effectively. In all of his writing, he emphasised the connections between nature, art and society. Ruskin was hugely influential in the latter half of the 19th century and up to the First World War. After a period of relative decline, his reputation has steadily improved since the 1960s with the publication of numerous academic studies of his work. Today, his ideas and concerns are widely recognised as having anticipated interest in environmentalism, sustainability, ethical consumerism, and craft.

Ruskin first came to widespread attention with the first volume of Modern Painters (1843), an extended essay in defence of the work of J. M. W. Turner in which he argued that the principal duty of the artist is "truth to nature". This meant rooting art in experience and close observation. From the 1850s, he championed the Pre-Raphaelites, who were influenced by his ideas. His work increasingly focused on social and political issues. Unto This Last (1860, 1862) marked the shift in emphasis. In 1869, Ruskin became the first Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Oxford, where he established the Ruskin School of Drawing. In 1871, he began his monthly "letters to the workmen and labourers of Great Britain", published under the title Fors Clavigera (18711884). In the course of this complex and deeply personal work, he developed the principles underlying his ideal society.

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