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Ruskin and His Contemporaries (Hardcover)
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In celebration of the 200th anniversary of the birth of one of
Victorian Britain's greatest thinkers, the art critic and social
reformer John Ruskin, the distinguished Ruskinian Robert Hewison
introduces Ruskin's ideas and values through revelatory studies of
the people and issues that shaped his thought, and the ideas and
values that in turn were shaped by his writings and personality.
Beginning with an exploration of the rich tradition of European art
that stimulated his imagination, and to which he responded in his
own skilful drawings, Ruskin and his Contemporaries follows the
uniquely visual dimension of his thinking from the aesthetic,
religious and political foundations laid by his parents to his
difficult personal and critical relationship with Turner, and his
encounters with the art and architecture of Venice. Victor Hugo
makes a surprising appearance as Ruskin develops his ideas on the
relationship between art and society. Ruskin's role as a
contemporary art critic is explored in two chapters on Holman Hunt,
one focussing on the Pre-Raphaelite's The Awakening Conscience, one
examining his later Triumph of the Innocents. The development of
Ruskin's role as a social critic is traced through his teaching at
the London Workingmen's College and his foundation of the Guild of
St George, a reforming society that continues to this day. Oscar
Wilde came under his personal influence, as did Octavia Hill, a
founder of the National Trust. The evolutionary theories of Charles
Darwin are shown to have been deeply unsettling to Ruskin's
worldview. The book concludes with a demonstration of the profound
influence of the Paradise Myth on all of Ruskin's writings,
followed by an exploration of the concept of cultural value that
shows why Ruskin's ruling principle: `There is no wealth but Life'
is as relevant to the twenty-first century as it was to the
nineteenth.
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