1st Edition

Ruskin (Routledge Revivals)

By George P. Landow Copyright 2015
110 Pages
by Routledge

110 Pages
by Routledge

110 Pages
by Routledge

Ruskin, the great Victorian critics of art and society, had an enormous influence on his age and our own. A highly successful propagandist for the arts, he did much both to popularize high art and to bring it to the masses. A brilliant theorist and practical critics of realism, he also produced the finest nineteenth-century discussions of fantasy, the grotesque, and pictorial symbolism. Most... Read more

Note on references;  Prologue:  Ruskin’s life;  Introduction;  1. Ruskin the word-painter  2. Ruskin the interpreter of the arts  3. Ruskin the interpreter of society  4. Ruskin interpreting Ruskin;  Conclusion;  Further reading;  A Ruskin chronology;  Index

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George P. Landow