The Life And Work Of John Ruskin
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Author | : John Ruskin |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 74 |
Release | : 2005-09-06 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1101651148 |
Includes two of John Ruskin's famous essays: "The Nature of the Gothic" and "The Work of Iron" from his book The Stones of Venice. Ruskin's insights into the need for individual artistic freedom, and his disdain for the mass-production art of the Victorian era, radically altered society's perception of creative design and remain powerfully relevant to our ideas of beauty today.
Author | : Frederic Harrison |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 1902 |
Genre | : Authors, English |
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Author | : John Ruskin |
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Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 1907 |
Genre | : Authors, English |
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Author | : Thomas P. Hughes |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 2005-05-13 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 022612066X |
To most people, technology has been reduced to computers, consumer goods, and military weapons; we speak of "technological progress" in terms of RAM and CD-ROMs and the flatness of our television screens. In Human-Built World, thankfully, Thomas Hughes restores to technology the conceptual richness and depth it deserves by chronicling the ideas about technology expressed by influential Western thinkers who not only understood its multifaceted character but who also explored its creative potential. Hughes draws on an enormous range of literature, art, and architecture to explore what technology has brought to society and culture, and to explain how we might begin to develop an "ecotechnology" that works with, not against, ecological systems. From the "Creator" model of development of the sixteenth century to the "big science" of the 1940s and 1950s to the architecture of Frank Gehry, Hughes nimbly charts the myriad ways that technology has been woven into the social and cultural fabric of different eras and the promises and problems it has offered. Thomas Jefferson, for instance, optimistically hoped that technology could be combined with nature to create an Edenic environment; Lewis Mumford, two centuries later, warned of the increasing mechanization of American life. Such divergent views, Hughes shows, have existed side by side, demonstrating the fundamental idea that "in its variety, technology is full of contradictions, laden with human folly, saved by occasional benign deeds, and rich with unintended consequences." In Human-Built World, he offers the highly engaging history of these contradictions, follies, and consequences, a history that resurrects technology, rightfully, as more than gadgetry; it is in fact no less than an embodiment of human values.
Author | : John Ruskin |
Publisher | : London : Arundel Society |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 1854 |
Genre | : Madonna dell'Arena (Chapel) Padua, Italy |
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Author | : Christopher Newall |
Publisher | : Paul Holberton Publishing |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014 |
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ISBN | : 9781907372575 |
Known as a writer on art, architecture, nature, landscape, economics and history, John Ruskin (1819-1900) also produced extraordinary drawings and watercolours that offer insight into the workings of his mind and are testimony to the scrupulous attention he gave to everything that interested him. In his drawings, Ruskin revealed a range of emotional responses, from euphoric delight in pattern, colour and texture to utter despondency at what he came to perceive as the ultimate corruption of all things. Accompanying a landmark exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, and National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, in 2014, this book explores a private but hugely revealing aspect of Ruskin's creative life. -- from back cover.
Author | : W. G. Collingwood |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1893 |
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Author | : John Ruskin |
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Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 1909 |
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Author | : William Gershom Collingwood |
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Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 1893 |
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Author | : Suzanne Fagence Cooper |
Publisher | : Hachette UK |
Total Pages | : 142 |
Release | : 2019-02-07 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1787476995 |
'To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, religion, all in one' John Ruskin - born 200 years ago, in February 1819 - was the greatest critic of his age: a critic not only of art and architecture but of society and life. But his writings - on beauty and truth, on work and leisure, on commerce and capitalism, on life and how to live it - can teach us more than ever about how to see the world around us clearly and how to live it. Dr Suzanne Fagence Cooper delves into Ruskin's writings and uncovers the dizzying beauty and clarity of his vision. Whether he was examining the exquisite carvings of a medieval cathedral or the mass-produced wares of Victorian industry, chronicling the beauties of Venice and Florence or his own descent into old age and infirmity, Ruskin saw vividly the glories and the contradictions of life, and taught us how to see them as well.