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John Ruskin (1819–1900)

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Ruskin was one of the most influential man of letters of the nineteenth century. An only child, Ruskin was born in Surrey. He attended Christ Church, Oxford, from 1839 to 1842. His ties to his parents, especially his mother, were very strong, and she stayed with him at Oxford until 1840, when, visa mer showing ominous signs of consumption, he left for a long tour of Switzerland and the Rhineland with both parents. His journeys to France, Germany, and, especially, Italy formed a great portion of his education. Not only did these trips give him firsthand exposure to the art and architecture that would be the focus of much of his long career; they also helped shape what he felt was his main interest, the study of nature. Around this time Ruskin met the landscape artist J. M. W. Turner, for whose work he had developed a deep admiration and whom he lauded in his Modern Painters (1843). In 1848 Ruskin married Euphemia (Effie) Gray, a distant cousin 10 years his junior. This relationship has been the focus of much scholarship, for six years later the marriage was annulled on the grounds of nonconsummation, and in 1855 Effie married John Everett Millais, the Pre-Raphaelite painter and an acquaintance of Ruskin. During the years 1849--52, Ruskin lived in Venice, where he pursued a course of architectural studies, publishing The Seven Lamps of Architecture (1849) and where he began The Stones of Venice (1851--53). It was also during this period that Ruskin's evangelicalism weakened, leading finally to his "unconversion" at Turin in 1858. His subsequent interest in political economy was clearly stated when, echoing his "hero," Carlyle, Ruskin remarked in the last volume of Modern Painters that greed is the deadly principle that guides English life. In a series of essays in Cornhill Magazine attacking the "pseudo-science" of political economists like J. S. Mill, David Ricardo, and Thomas Malthus, Ruskin argues that England should base its "political economy" on a paternalistic, Christian-based doctrine instead of on competition. The essays were not well received, and the series was canceled short of completion, but Ruskin published the collected essays in 1862 as Unto This Last. At the same time, he renewed his attacks on the political economists in Fraser's Magazine, later publishing these essays as Munera Pulveris (1872). From about 1862 until his death, Ruskin unsuccessfully fought depression. He was in love with Rose La Touche, whom he met when she was 11 and he 41. When she turned 18, Ruskin proposed, but the her parents opposed the marriage, and religious differences (she was devout; Ruskin was at this time a freethinker) kept them from ever marrying. La Touche died in 1875, insane, and three years later Ruskin experienced the first of seven attacks of madness that would plague him over the next 10 years. By 1869 Ruskin had accepted the first Slade Professorship of Fine Art at Oxford, begun his serial Fors Clavigera, been sued and found guilty of libel for his attack on Whistler in Fors Clavigera (he was fined a farthing), and resigned his professorship. Ruskin's work was instrumental in the formation of art history as a modern discipline. A capable artist, he complemented his technical understanding of art with insightful analysis and passionately held social ideals. His social writings are of interest today primarily as artifacts of the age, but his art criticism still holds an important place, especially in his appreciation of Turner. There is a vast number of works on Ruskin. From a literary standpoint, John Rosenberg's study, although dated because of many of its assumptions, is still an outstanding book. Jay Fellows's work is interesting and has caused much controversy among Ruskin scholars. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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The King of the Golden River (1850) 832 exemplar
On Art and Life (2004) 640 exemplar
The Seven Lamps of Architecture (1849) 544 exemplar
The Elements of Drawing (1904) 295 exemplar
The Stones of Venice (1900) 177 exemplar
Unto This Last (1899) 168 exemplar
Traffic (1600) 162 exemplar
Selected Writings (John Ruskin) (2004) 149 exemplar
The Crown of Wild Olive (1885) 128 exemplar
Modern Painters (1856) 114 exemplar
The Queen of the Air (1869) 107 exemplar
The Lamp of Memory (2008) 107 exemplar
Mornings in Florence (1875) 106 exemplar
Praeterita/Dilecta (2005) 98 exemplar
The Ethics of the Dust (1865) 92 exemplar
Ruskin Today (1964) 70 exemplar
Selections and Essays (1918) 48 exemplar
The Two Paths (1859) 42 exemplar
The Bible of Amiens (1997) 41 exemplar
Precious thoughts (1897) 30 exemplar
The Nature of Gothic (1899) 28 exemplar
Time and tide (1872) 26 exemplar
Fors Clavigera (1899) 26 exemplar
Selections From the Works of John Ruskin (1908) — Författare — 25 exemplar
The works of John Ruskin (1885) 25 exemplar
The Poetry of Architecture (1893) 23 exemplar
Stones of Venice: Selections (1879) 21 exemplar
Pre-Raphaelitism (1906) 18 exemplar
The Harbours of England (2007) 18 exemplar
The Order of Release (1947) 15 exemplar
Selected writings 11 exemplar
Frondes Agrestes (1893) 11 exemplar
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On Genius (On Series) (2011) 10 exemplar
Ruskin on Turner (1990) 10 exemplar
Poems (1900) 9 exemplar
The Eagle's Nest (2009) 9 exemplar
Beauty and Nature (2010) 7 exemplar
Kuninkaitten aarteet (1985) 7 exemplar
The Elements of Perspective (1859) 7 exemplar
On the old road (2008) 6 exemplar
Selections from Ruskin (1927) 6 exemplar
Ecrits sur les Alpes (2013) 5 exemplar
Venice Approached (1992) 5 exemplar
Verona and Other Lectures (1894) 5 exemplar
Unto this last, and Traffic (1967) 5 exemplar
Fors Clavigera Volume I- II (1880) 4 exemplar
TEXTOS SOBRE NATURALEZA (1900) 4 exemplar
Titian (1911) 4 exemplar
The King of the Golden River [play] (1992) — Original story — 4 exemplar
Viaggio in Italia (2002) 4 exemplar
Fors Clavigera. Vol. II (1896) 3 exemplar
Modern Painters, Vol. 1 & 2 (2010) 3 exemplar
Praeterita, vol. 1 3 exemplar
Susam ve Zambaklar (2013) 3 exemplar
The Drawings of John Ruskin (1972) 3 exemplar
Opere (1987) 2 exemplar
Work 2 exemplar
Natura 2 exemplar
Of queens' gardens (2010) 2 exemplar
How to See (2013) 2 exemplar
The Pocket Ruskin (1907) 2 exemplar
Ruskin as literary critic (1969) 2 exemplar
Turner (2023) 2 exemplar
Työ, talous ja sielu (2021) 1 exemplar
Die Steine von Venedig (2018) 1 exemplar
Sur Turner (1983) 1 exemplar
Turner e i Preraffaelliti (1992) 1 exemplar
Selections 1 exemplar
Essays And Belles Lettres (2006) 1 exemplar
Sesamo e gigli 1 exemplar
The Ruskin Birthday Book (1883) 1 exemplar
Diario italiano, 1840-1841 (1992) 1 exemplar
Vrednosti 1 exemplar
Art in England 1 exemplar
Mystery of life 1 exemplar
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Worte Ruskins 1 exemplar
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Ruskin's works 1 exemplar
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Ruskin, O Ruskin, how oft I find
Thy languid musings echo in my mind!
 
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therebelprince | 2 andra recensioner | Oct 24, 2023 |
I've been reading essays from this bit by bit for quite some time. I really wish I'd made updates for each essay, because some were really extraordinary (commentaries on Gothic architecture), some were fascinating insights into the history of economics (Ruskin was an Adam Smith contemporary), and some were... just... huh (his fiction).
 
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mmparker | Oct 24, 2023 |
Ruskin, again, came across to me as an opinionated bigot who was very pleased with himself and whom I would not have liked at all. Yes, he wrote and lectured some 150 years ago, and our social mores have changed considerably, but he annoyed me. Perhaps I might have enjoyed him as a lecturer, but the way these essays were presented (presumably "as Written") I very quickly got so disturbed that I could not follow his points. His continued use of phrases and clauses in apposition ruined any flow of information. They made the essays virtually unreadable. Even the book's editor added 28 pages of notes to explain what Ruskin was saying. The "Brief Sketch of the Author's Life" include was somewhat illuminating. The added commentary "Ruskin as Economist" was needed - to explain why Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch added the collection of essays to his Kings Treasuries of Literature.… (mer)
 
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