The Works of John Ruskin

John Ruskin

The Works of John Ruskin
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
18 February 2010
Pages
464
ISBN
9781108008860

The Works of John Ruskin

John Ruskin

The influence of John Ruskin (1819-1900), both on his own time and on artistic and social developments in the twentieth century, cannot be over-stated. He changed Victorian perceptions of art, and was the main influence behind ‘Gothic revival’ architecture. As a social critic, he argued for the improvement of the condition of the poor, and against the increasing mechanisation of work in factories, which he believed was dull and soul-destroying. The thirty-nine volumes of the Library Edition of his works, published between 1903 and 1912, are themselves a remarkable achievement, in which his books and essays - almost all highly illustrated - are given a biographical and critical context in extended introductory essays and in the ‘Minor Ruskiniana’ - extracts from letters, articles and reminiscences both by and about Ruskin. This thirty-eighth volume contains a bibliography of Ruskin’s own writings and of the writings of otherS about him.

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