Selections From The Writings Of John Ruskin: First Series 1843-1860
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: Second Edition
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Few voices in Victorian England rang with such passionate authority on art, architecture, and society as that of John Ruskin, and Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin: First Series 1843–1860 gathers the most penetrating passages from his prolific early career into a single, essential volume. This carefully curated anthology presents Ruskin's landmark arguments drawn from seminal works such as Modern Painters, The Stones of Venice, and The Seven Lamps of Architecture, chronicling his evolution from a spirited champion of J.M.W. Turner to the foremost aesthetic and moral critic of his age. Ruskin's prose is a force unto itself — sweeping, rhythmic, and shot through with an almost prophetic conviction that beauty and truth are inseparable — and this collection illustrates precisely why he dominated intellectual discourse for decades. The Second Edition, published by George Allen of Sunnyside, Orpington, reflects the enduring appetite for his ideas among readers eager to engage with the great cultural debates of the nineteenth century. Whether one comes to Ruskin as a student of art history, Victorian literature, or social thought, these selections open a door to a mind whose arguments about nature, labour, and human perception remain startlingly unresolved.
Author: John Ruskin
Format: Hardback
Published: 1894, George Allen, Sunnyside, Orpington
Genre: Essays
Edition: Second Edition
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Few voices in Victorian England rang with such passionate authority on art, architecture, and society as that of John Ruskin, and Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin: First Series 1843–1860 gathers the most penetrating passages from his prolific early career into a single, essential volume. This carefully curated anthology presents Ruskin's landmark arguments drawn from seminal works such as Modern Painters, The Stones of Venice, and The Seven Lamps of Architecture, chronicling his evolution from a spirited champion of J.M.W. Turner to the foremost aesthetic and moral critic of his age. Ruskin's prose is a force unto itself — sweeping, rhythmic, and shot through with an almost prophetic conviction that beauty and truth are inseparable — and this collection illustrates precisely why he dominated intellectual discourse for decades. The Second Edition, published by George Allen of Sunnyside, Orpington, reflects the enduring appetite for his ideas among readers eager to engage with the great cultural debates of the nineteenth century. Whether one comes to Ruskin as a student of art history, Victorian literature, or social thought, these selections open a door to a mind whose arguments about nature, labour, and human perception remain startlingly unresolved.