The life of John Ruskin

Title The life of John Ruskin
Author by W. G. Collingwood
Publication Methuen
Size 314p
Language ENG ENG
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Topics Biography--Architects
Ruskin, John (Engl. writer, 1819-1900)
Architecture--Historism / Revivalism
Architects--England
Biography--Literature--Britain
Notes the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, also an art patron, draughtsman, watercolourist, a prominent social thinker and philanthropist. He wrote on subjects as varied as geology, architecture, myth, ornithology, literature, education, botany and political economy. His writing styles and literary forms were equally varied. Ruskin penned essays and treatises, poetry and lectures, travel guides and manuals, letters and even a fairy tale. The elaborate style that characterised his earliest writing on art was later superseded by a preference for plainer language designed to communicate his ideas more effectively. In all of his writing, he emphasised the connections between nature, art and society. He also made detailed sketches and paintings of rocks, plants, birds, landscapes, and architectural structures and ornamentation. [wikipedia]
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