Ruskin [raskin] John, ur. 8 II 1819, Londyn, zm. 20 I 1900, Brantwood (hrab. Lancashire), angielski teoretyk i krytyk sztuki, grafik, malarz, pisarz i kolekcjoner;
pierwszy profesor historii sztuki uniwersytetu w Oksfordzie (1870–78 i 1883–84); wielbiciel gotyku, wyznawca irracjonalistycznego estetyzmu, głosił utopijne projekty reformy stosunków społecznych przez wychowanie w kulcie piękna; krytykował poglądy J.S. Milla i gospodarkę wolnorynkową; podkreślał związek rzemiosła ze sztuką. Bronił teorii i twórczości prerafaelitów, a także W. Turnera. Pisał poezje, fantastyczne utwory literackie (Król Złotej Rzeki... 1851, wydanie polskie 1909), rozprawy o sztuce (Modern Painters, t. 1–5 1843–60, The Seven Lamps of Architecture 1849, The Stones of Venice, t. 1–3 1851–53), reformatorskie rozprawy ekonomiczne i społeczne (Unto this Last 1862, Gałązka dzikiej oliwy 1866, wydanie polskie 1900); Wybór pism (t. 1–2 1900), Sztuka — społeczeństwo — wychowanie (1977 wybór pism).
John Ruskin's insights into the need for individual artistic freedom, and his disdain for the mass-production art. of the Victorian era, radically altered ...
Proserpina, Volume 2; Studies of Wayside Flowers, While the Air was Yet Pure Among the Alps and in the Scotland and England Which My Father Knew, is a ...
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""Notes On Some Of The Principal Pictures Exhibited In The Rooms Of The Royal Academy, No 2, 1856: And The Society Of Painters In Water Colors"" is a book ...
Lectures On Architecture And Painting Delivered At Edinburgh In November, 1853 is a book written by John Ruskin, a prominent art critic and social thinker ...
Noted art critic John Ruskin (1819-1900) guides the reader on six morning excursions to historic sites in Florence, Italy, offering fresh insights on ...
A Descriptive Catalogue of the Library and Print Room of the Ruskin Museum, Sheffield is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of ...
Deucalion - Collected studies of the lapse of waves, and life of stones. Vol. 2 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1886. ...
The Queen of the air - Being a study of the Greek myths of cloud and storm is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1869.
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Dilecta - Correspondence, diary notes, and extracts from books, illustrating Praeterita is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of ...