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No figure among the Victorians surpasses John Ruskin in magnitude of genius, modernity of message, or mastery of prose. Yet for the first half-century after his death in 1900, his genius lay largely undiscovered. First published in 1963, John D. Rosenberg's The Genius of John Ruskin aimed to make Ruskin's ideas and writings accessible to the modern reader, and it quickly became a classic. Long out of print, this important anthology is now available with a new foreword by Herbert F. Tucker and an expanded and updated bibliography by the author that takes into account recent Ruskin scholarship.
Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series
Paperback: 566 pages
Publisher: University of Virginia Press; Reprint edition (February 4, 1998)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0813917891
ISBN-13: 978-0813917894
Product Dimensions: 1.5 x 5.8 x 8.8 inches
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One can hardly read any thoughtful analysis orevaluation of art, artists, even poets, withoutcoming upon a quote from John Ruskin. Yet onemay read the quote, realize its acuteness, butthen proceed on -- without really knowing anythingabout John Ruskin himself, or about his ideasand works. That is a tragic loss. Ruskin was anEnglish art critic and scholar, as well as acultural and philosphical historian wholived from 1819 to 1900.He attended and graduated from Oxford University,and in 1869 was appointed first Slade Professorof Fine Art at Oxford. John Ruskin seems to me to be a combination ofPlato, godly Greek sculptors, and Thoreau. Hisown senses, apparently (just like Thoreau's) wereextremely acute...he has incredible sharpness ofvision. But even more telling, he has incrediblecommand of vision and the language to express itwith. He seems, at times, like a Homer of artisticcultural and philosophical expression. This volume is a compilation of excerpts fromRuskin's major writings: MODERN PAINTERS I, II,III, IV, and V/ THE SEVEN LAMPS OF ARCHITECTURE/THE STONES OF VENICE/ THE TWO PATHS/ UNTO THISLAST/ THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE/ SESAME AND LILIES/THE QUEEN OF THE AIR/ FORS CLAVIGERA/ FICTION, FAIRAND FOUL/ THE STORM-CLOUD OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY/and PRAETERITA. There are multiple excerpts fromeach of these works, and each excerpt is followedby a very helpful citation of the volume, part,section, and chapter of the work where the excerptis found. Ruskin is not "merely" an acute analyzer andevaluator of art and architecture, but he also isan artistic and ethical philosopher.
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