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ON ART AND LIFE
RUSKIN J. wydawnictwo: PENGUIN , rok wydania 2004, wydanie I cena netto: 30.40 Twoja cena 28,88 zł + 5% vat - dodaj do koszyka On Art and Life
John Ruskin's insights into the need for individual artistic freedom, and his disdain
for the mass-production art. of the Victorian era, radically altered society's perception
of creative design and remain powerfully relevant to our ideas of beauty today.
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.
John Ruskin was born in London in 1819, of Scottish descent. His father was a
succesful wine-merchant and art lover; his mother a strict Evangelical whose religious
instruction affected him deeply. He entered Christ Church, Oxford, in 1836 and graduated
in 1842. In 1843, the first of the five volumes of Modern Painters was published, a
work written in defense of J.M.W. Turner. The other volumes survey the main traditions of
European painting from Giotto to the nineteenth century. Ruskin was also passionately
interested in Gothic architecture and published two books on the subject before the
completion of Modern Painters: The Seven Lamps of Architecture (1849) and the three
volumes of The Stones of Venice in 1851 and 1853. He married Effie Gray in 1848,
but seven years later the marriage was annulled on grounds of non-consummation. In 1858 he
met Rose la Toche, a girl of nine, with whom he fell in love and became increasingly
obsessed, and in that year he finally lost his Evangelical faith. In 1860, disillusioned
with a society in which poverty was rampant and the poor exploited, he began the first of
four essays attacking the science of Political Economy. They were published in book form
in 1862, uner the title, Unto this Last. This was followed in 1863 by Munera
Pulveris, which puts forward some positive proposals for economic change and reform.
In 1869 he became the first Slade Professor of Fine Art at Oxford and in 1871 began
writing Fors Clavigera, a series of open letters which draw connections between
diverse subjects. He also took part in many practical projects, many of which he directed
by way of his Utopian pressure-group, the Guild of St. George. When Rose la Touche died
insanse in 1875, however, he began to show signs of mental disturbance and suffered the
first of seven mental breakdowns in 1878. In 1885 he began publishing his autobiography, Praeterita.
This moving and lyrical book was brought to a premature conclusion by his last and most
violent breakdown in 1889. He lived on, withdrawn and inactive, until 1900
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