Academy notes, notes on Prout and Hunt, and other art criticisms, 1855-1888

Author(s)

• Ruskin, John
• Cook, Edward Tyas, Sir
• Wedderburn, Alexander Dundas Oligvy

Bibliographic Information

Academy notes, notes on Prout and Hunt, and other art criticisms, 1855-1888

John Ruskin ; edited by Edward Tyas Cook and Alexander Wedderburn

（Cambridge library collection, . Literary studies . The works of John Ruskin / edited by E. T. Cook and Alexander Wedderburn ; v. 14）

Cambridge University Press, 2009

• : pbk

Other Title

The works of John Ruskin

Note

Reprint. Originally published: London : George Allen, 1904

"This digitally printed version 2009"--T.p. verso

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The influence of John Ruskin (1819-1900), both on his own time and on artistic and social developments in the twentieth century, cannot be over-stated. He changed Victorian perceptions of art, and was the main influence behind 'Gothic revival' architecture. As a social critic, he argued for the improvement of the condition of the poor, and against the increasing mechanisation of work in factories, which he believed was dull and soul-destroying. The thirty-nine volumes of the Library Edition of his works, published between 1903 and 1912, are themselves a remarkable achievement, in which his books and essays - almost all highly illustrated - are given a biographical and critical context in extended introductory essays and in the 'Minor Ruskiniana' - extracts from letters, articles and reminiscences both by and about Ruskin. This fourteenth volume contains Ruskin's 'Academy Notes' and other writings on painting and painters.

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Part I. Academy notes: 1. 1855
• 2. 1856
• 3. 1857
• 4. 1858
• 5. 1859
• 6. 1875. Part II. Letters and papers on pictures and artists: 1. Pre-Raphaelitism in Liverpool
• 2. Generalisation and the Scotch Pre-Raphaelites
• 3. John Leech's outlines
• 4. Ernest George's etchings
• 5. The Frederick Walker exhibition
• 6. Arthur Burgess
• 7. The black arts
• Part III. Notes on Samuel Prout and William Hunt: 1. William Hunt
• 2. Samuel Prout
• 3. Notes on the drawings
• 4. Indexes
• Appendixes.

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Details

• NCID: BB03677360
• ISBN:
  • 9781108008624
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Cambridge
• Pages/Volumes: xxxix, 499 p., 27 p. of plates : ill., ports.
• Size: 23 cm
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BB00083053