Bøker av John Ruskin

John Ruskin, wrote and lectured on a wide variety of subjects -- Art, Architecture, Economics and Sociology, and the natural world. This volume is a collection of Ruskin's work on Geology and Mineralogy. fully illustrated with 23 full page illustrations and as well ss many drawings within the text.

CONTENTS:Preface All Great Art Is PraiseThe Three Divisions of the Art of PaintingFirst Exercise in Right Lines, the Quartering of St. George's ShieldFirst Exercise in Curves. The CircleOf Elementary FormOf Elementary Organic StructureOf the Twelve Zodiacal ColorsOf the Relation of Color to OutlineOf Map DrawingOf Light and Shade

First published in 1928, this book gathers together a selection of John Ruskin's relatively neglected writings on literature and aesthetics. As noted in the textual preface, 'Interesting themes, original treatment, suggestive ideas which warm and stimulate the mind, are set out in a more easily readable form than is usual in Ruskin's works.'

Never collected together before, this volume brings together all of Ruskin's writings about the Pre-Raphaelites, writings that helped turn this obscure movement into one of the most important movements in British art

Praeterita is the autobiography of John Ruskin (1819-1900), art critic and social commentator and one of the most influential figures of the nineteenth century. An elegy for lost places and people, Praeterita recounts Ruskin's childhood, and his travels across Europe with passion and intimacy.

Unto this Last, first published in 1860, is possibly the most influential political essay ever written, with a huge impact on British socialism, and on figures such as Tolstoy, Gandhi and Martin Luther King. Its lessons about the supreme value of life are ever more timely, as Andrew Hill of the Financial Times explains in his introduction.

The first volume of the magisterial Library Edition (1903-1912) of the works of John Ruskin contains early essays on architecture and painting, and two pieces of fiction: Leoni and The King of the Golden River.

John Ruskin was the most powerful and influential art critic and social commentator of the Victorian nineteenth century. A true polymath, he wrote about nature, art, architecture, politics, history, myth and much more. All of his work is characterized by a clarity of vision as unsettling and intense now as it was for his first readers.This new selection includes wide-ranging extracts of Ruskin's texts, from the early 1840s to the late 1880s, as well as representative material from each of his major works. Modern Painters, The Stones of Venice, and Sesame and Lilies are juxtaposed with less familiar writing on science and myth. An authoritative introduction outlines Ruskin's life and thought, making it clear why his writing is still relevant today. This new edition also includes a selection of Ruskin's own illustrations.

John Ruskin overturned Victorian society s ideas about art and architecture, arguing that ancient buildings must be conserved for their deep, mystical links with the past and that creative design is essential not for financial gain, but to communicate eternal human truths. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.

This exceptional biography, Præterita is perhaps the best-loved of all the fruits of Ruskin's many-sided and tormented genius.