Reading Ruskin’s Cultural Heritage - Conservation and Transformation (Hardcover)

This book Explores John Ruskin’s passionate responses to the environmental and social changes of his day, with contemporary ideas on themes like sustainability, ethical production, and environmentalism. presents six stimulating essays on Ruskin’s readership and reception, his transformative perceptions of heritage futures, and provocative writing on cultural landscapes and the arts and crafts. Has extracts from both well-known and lesser-known works in each chapter to reflect the distinctive vocality of his texts, from his writing on architecture and buildings, to landscape and cultural heritage. offers a richer description of cultural context and meaning than usually afforded to Ruskin’s work in conservation and critical heritage studies finding its resonance and relevance. is written for an academic & professional audience in heritage studies and historic building conservation and particularly relevant for cultural heritage management, this is a core text and reference work for undergraduate and postgraduate students in history of art and architecture, heritage studies, and architectural/building conservation, also central to interests of cultural historians and scholars of nineteenth-century / Victorian history and literature.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	April 2023
First published:	2023
Authors:	Gill Chitty
Dimensions:	234 x 156mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	164
ISBN-13:	978-0-367-37006-0
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Museums & museology Books > Social sciences > General Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > General Books > Humanities > History > General Books > Earth & environment > The environment > General Books > Sport & Leisure > Travel & holiday > General Books > Professional & Technical > Civil engineering, surveying & building > Building construction & materials > Conservation of buildings & building materials Books > History > General Books > Travel > General
LSN:	0-367-37006-9
Barcode:	9780367370060

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