Ruskin john interest (2 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. 5th or later Edition. Reprint (Seventh edition in small form). Hardback, bound in the original green cloth with gilt titling to spine. 19 × 13cm, xv + 444pp. This copy carries significant provenance, having belonged to the Marxist art historian and pioneer of Kunstsoziologie (the sociology of art), Francis Donald Klingender (1907-1955). Better known as F. D. Klingender, he was a key figure in analyzing the relationship between art and the Industrial Revolution - a theme that directly echoes Ruskin's own critiques. His bookplate is present on the front pastedown. First published in May 1849, this extended essay outlines Ruskin's fundamental principles of architecture, which he termed "Lamps": Sacrifice, Truth, Power, Beauty, Life, Memory, and Obedience. Writing from a deeply moral and spiritual stance, Ruskin argues that the technical innovations following the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution had sapped the vitality of architecture by subsuming its spiritual content. The work is illustrated with 14 plates, all drawn and etched by Ruskin himself. Condition: A reading copy only as the cloth is rubbed, the plates (all present) have a waterstain to the top edge, and the book is in generally well-read condition. However, this copy comes with an interesting provenance.…

A difficult letter to decipher regarding origins, but most likely written to John Ruskin or Noel Humphries by an editor of a journal, based on the content, especially in that the opening words query the recipient's intent to possibly write or speak lines by way of eulogy for J. W. Turner, the famed English painter who had just passed away. Ruskin was one of Turner's greatest proponents, drawing widespread attention to Turner in Ruskin's "Modern Painters" (1843). As well, the writer mentions "Ten Centuries" in the letter, referring to Noel Humphreys' book, "Ten Centuries of Art," published in 1852. "Wednesday. My dear Sir, I suppose you will have some last words on Turner? Did you not suggest that the Pre-Raphaelite section of the "Ten Centuries" might be shortened? I think it might, with advantage. If you call, on your way home, today instead of tomorrow, I shall be happy to see you, Very Truly Yours, "A. J. Airstead" [sic, ? undetermined]. Thin gray paper mounted onto beige paper. Provenance: Directly from William Fredeman Pre-Raphaelite Collection.…