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Author : John Ruskin
Publisher : R. West
ISBN 13 : 9780849200472
Total Pages : 59 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (4 download)
Download or read book John Ruskin on Himself and Things in General written by John Ruskin and published by R. West. This book was released on 1977-01-01 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Ruskin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book On Himself and Things in General written by John Ruskin and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Ruskin (Architect, Social reformer, Great Britain)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 59 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (795 download)
Download or read book John Ruskin on Himself and Things in General written by John Ruskin (Architect, Social reformer, Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas P. Hughes
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022612066X
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Human-Built World written by Thomas P. Hughes and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2005-05-13 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101651148
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)
Download or read book On Art and Life written by John Ruskin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-09-06 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : James S. Dearden
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9781841270463
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (74 download)
Download or read book John Ruskin written by James S. Dearden and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1999-10-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite professing a dislike of having his portrait taken, John Ruskin's footsteps were dogged by portrait painters, sculptors, caricaturists and photographers from the cradle to the grave and beyond. A thoroughly accessible book it lists and describes some 331likenesses made between 1822 and 1998. The three introductory chapters to this book survey Ruskin portraiture and the portraits, his general physical appearance througout his life, his hands, his mouth, his various illnesses and their effect on his appearance, his clothes, style of dress, size, tailors, their bills, etc. These opening chapters include many descriptions and reminiscences by Ruskin's friends and acquaintances, and those who portrayed him. The principal part of the book deals with the individual portraits, their history, where and why they were made, what Ruskin was doing at that time of his life and what his connection was with the artists in question. He was portrayed so regularly that this section is also effectively a potted Ruskin biography, based on the portraits. A 'catalogue raisonne' of the Ruskin portraits follows where the physical details of the works are listed, together with details of reproductions, exhibitions and provenance.
Author : Lars Spuybroek
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474243886
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)
Download or read book The Sympathy of Things written by Lars Spuybroek and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-04-21 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'If there is one thing we can learn from John Ruskin, it is that each age must find its own way to beauty' writes Lars Spuybroek in The Sympathy of Things, his ground-breaking work which proposes a radical new aesthetics for the digital era. Spuybroek argues that we must 'undo' the twentieth century and learn to understand the aesthetic insights of the nineteenth-century art critic John Ruskin, from which he distils pointers for the contemporary age. Linking philosophy, design, and the digital, with art history, architecture, and craft, Spuybroek explores the romantic notion of 'sympathy', a core concept in Ruskin's aesthetics, re-evaluating it as the driving force of the twenty-first century aesthetic experience. For Ruskin, beauty always comprises variation, imperfection and fragility, three concepts that wholly disappeared from our mindsets during the twentieth century, but which Spuybroek argues to be central to contemporary aesthetics and design. Revised throughout, and a new foreword by philosopher Brian Massumi, this is a new edition of a seminal work which has drawn praise from fields as diverse as digital architecture and speculative realism, and will continue to be influential as it wrests Ruskin's ideas out of the Victorian era and reconstructs them for the modern age.
Author : John Ruskin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (963 download)
Download or read book The Nature of Gothic written by John Ruskin and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sir Charles Waldstein
Publisher : New York : Harper
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Work of John Ruskin written by Sir Charles Waldstein and published by New York : Harper. This book was released on 1893 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Ruskin
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141398159
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (413 download)
Download or read book Traffic written by John Ruskin and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'You shall have thousands of gold pieces; - thousands of thousands - millions - mountains of gold: where will you keep them?' Two of Ruskin's most powerful essays: 'Traffic' and 'The Roots of Honour' Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. John Ruskin (1819-1900). Ruskin's Unto This Last and Other Writings is available in Penguin Classics.
Author : John Ruskin
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3385484871
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (854 download)
Download or read book The Works of John Ruskin written by John Ruskin and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-05-30 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
Author : David Melville Craig
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813925585
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (255 download)
Download or read book John Ruskin and the Ethics of Consumption written by David Melville Craig and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book on the Victorian critic and public intellectual John Ruskin by a scholar of religion and ethics, this work recovers both Ruskin's engaged critique of economic life and his public practice of moral imagination. With its reading of Ruskin as an innovative contributor to a tradition of ethics concerned with character, culture, and community, this book recasts established interpretations of Ruskin's place in nineteenth-century literature and aesthetics, challenges nostalgic diagnoses of the supposed historical loss of virtue ethics, and demonstrates the limitations of any politics that eschews common purpose as vital to individual agency and social welfare. Although Ruskin's moralistic efforts did not always allow for democratic individuality, equality, and contestation, his eclecticism, Craig argues, helps to correct these problems. Further, Ruskin's interdisciplinary explorations of beauty, work, nature, religion, politics, and economic value reveal the ways in which his insights into the practical connections between aesthetics and ethics, and culture and character, might be applied to today's debates about liberal modernity today. With the triumph of global capitalism, and the near-silence of any opposing voice, Ruskin's model of an engaged reading of culture and his public practice of moral imagination deserve renewed attention. This book provides students in religion, politics, and social theory with a timely reintroduction to this timeless figure.
Author : John Ruskin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (4 download)
Download or read book King of the Golden River written by John Ruskin and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Waldstein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781331004592
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)
Download or read book The Work of John Ruskin written by Charles Waldstein and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-09 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Work of John Ruskin: Its Influence Upon Modern Thought and Life The claims of criticism to practical utility are not established beyond a doubt If we run our eyes over a list of books about books, of critical reviews and commentaries on the published works of remarkable men, which every day seem to grow in bulk, we must at times have asked: "Is it not a mistake thus to block up the way between the reading public and the great books, and to occupy any portion of the small amount of time which the most studious can hardly find sufficient to devote to the reading of the great works themselves?" About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : J.L. Bradley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134781091
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)
Download or read book John Ruskin written by J.L. Bradley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-23 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels. The carefully selected sources range from landmark essays in the history of criticism to journalism and contemporary opinion, and little published documentary material such as letters and diaries. Significant pieces of criticism from later periods are also included, in order to demonstrate the fluctuations in an author's reputation. Each volume contains an introduction to the writer's published works, a selected bibliography, and an index of works, authors and subjects. The Collected Critical Heritage set will be available as a set of 68 volumes and the series will also be available in mini sets selected by period (in slipcase boxes) and as individual volumes.
Author : John Ruskin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 658 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (35 download)
Download or read book The Works of John Ruskin: "A Joy for Ever" and two paths with letters on the Oxford Museum and various addresses, 1856-1860 written by John Ruskin and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Ruskin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The Works of John Ruskin: Modern painters of many things written by John Ruskin and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 1-35, works. Volume 36-37, letters. Volume 38 provides an extensive bibliography of Ruskin's writings and a catalogue of his drawings, with corrections to earlier volumes in George Allen's Library Edition of the Works of John Ruskin. Volume 39, general index.
