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A full-size facsimile of John Ruskin’s as yet unpublished book of
pressed plants with notes, collected and compiled by Ruskin during
1844 from the mountains and forests around Chamonix, France. This
rare example of a herbier to be reproduced and published is
accompanied with a second volume of notes and commentary. Here,
Ruskin’s full, scientific explanations are fully commented on in
the light of modern botanical knowledge. Professors David Ingram
and Stephen Wildman provide an introduction, illuminating essays
and detailed notes and commentary on Ruskin’s herbier.
'One of the very few necessary and inevitable utterances of the
century.' William Morris, in the Preface. The Nature of Gothic
started life as a chapter in Ruskin's masterwork, The Stones of
Venice. Ruskin came to lament the 'Frankenstein monsters' of
Victorian buildings with added Gothic which 'The Stones' inspired;
but despite his misgivings the original moral purpose of his
writing had not fallen on stony ground. The Nature of Gothic, the
last chapter of the second volume, had marked his progression from
art critic to social critic; in it he found the true seam of his
thought, and it was quickly recognised for the revolutionary
writing it was. As Morris himself put it, The Nature of Gothic
'pointed out a new road on which the world should travel'; and in
its indictment of meaningless modern labour and its celebration of
medieval architecture it could be called the foundation stone of
Morris's aesthetic and purpose in life. 40 years after he first
read it, Morris chose Ruskin's text for one of the first books to
be published at his Kelmscott Press, using his own Golden type. It
is one of the summits of his career, and one of the most beautiful
books ever published. Few books can so completely sum up an era.
The Kelmscott Nature of Gothic encapsulates the meeting of two
remarkable minds and embodies their influence in word, image and
design. But more than that, Ruskin's words are increasingly
relevant for our times. In this facsimile edition, the first ever
made of this rare book, the reader can fully appreciate their
importance and their legacy, as understood by one of the most
potent visual imaginations to have worked in Britain. In this
enlarged edition, essays by leading scholars, Robert Hewison (who
was one of Ruskin's successors as Slade Professor of Fine Art at
Oxford University), Tony Pinkney (Senior Lecturer at Lancaster
University) and Robert Brownell (lecturer, stained glass maker and
author of Marriage of Inconvenience) explain the importance of this
book for Ruskin, for Morris and for us today.
The Stones of Venice has been described as the greatest guidebook
ever written. Read by all who went there and thousands who did not,
it opened Victorian eyes to the glories of a city even then under
threat, and transformed the study and practice of architecture for
ever. It took Ruskin almost half a million words to launch his
devastating attack on the Renaissance – ‘the school which has
conducted men’s inventive and constructional faculties from the
Grand Canal to Gower Street’ and to explain how to see and make
true architecture. They were ‘glorious words, but too many,’ as
J. G. Links put it while preparing this edition. Links, himself the
greatest exponent of Venice of the 20th century, designed this
abridgement to convey all the excitement, urgency, love of Venice
and unmatchedly beautiful prose to a new generation of
readers.Â
""I was determined to change my life in accordance with the ideals
of the book." --Gandhi on" Unto this Last"" One of the most
influential political essays ever written, "Unto this Last "was one
of the defining texts of British socialism and reading it was a
decisive experience in the lives of Gandhi (who translated it into
Gujarati) and Martin Luther King, among many others. Ruskin's
lessons are as urgently needed today as ever, as his attack on the
greed and short-termism of unbridled capitalism, and on the pursuit
of money instead of true wealth, are every bit as inspiring and
challenging as they were when it was published 150 years ago. A new
introduction by Andrew Hill discusses the value of the essay in an
age of credit crunch. A foreword by the Master of the Guild of St.
George, Ruskin's association for social reform, sets out what
Ruskinians today can do and are doing.
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.
Never collected together before, this volume brings together all of
Ruskin's writings about the Pre-Raphaelites, writings that helped
turn this obscure movement into one of the most important movements
in British art
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Marcel Proust, John Ruskin; Foreword by Eric Karpeles; Translated by Damion Searls
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Marcel Proust's fiction is threaded through with evidence of his
belief in the importance of reading. A la recherche du temps perdu
is rich with references to writers and books that were important to
his own style of writing and to his approach to the world. By
reading great authors, Proust contends, we not only learn of great
ideas, but are enriched by the fruits of the world's most
inspirational minds. In particular, Proust admired Ruskin, and in
translating Ruskin's works into French, he provided copious
annotations about the relationship between the writer and his
readers. This book includes some of those annotations, along with a
key Ruskin essay, 'Of Kings' Treasuries', and some of Proust's own
writings about reading, collected in one volume for the first time.
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have
transformed the way we see ourselves and each other. They have
inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have
enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched
lives and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the
great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas
shook civilization, and helped make us who we are.
This book will be shipped within one month of being ordered.
Classic work by the great Victorian expresses his deepest convictions about the nature and role of architecture and its aesthetics. Timeless observations are required reading for architects, students and lovers of architecture. This authoritative edition includes reproductions of the 14 original plates of Ruskin's superb drawings of architectural details from such structures as the Doge's Palace in Venice, the Cathedral of St.-Lo, Giotto's Campanile in Florence and the Cathedral of Rouen.
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