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Unto this last : two hundred years of John Ruskin

Title
Unto this last : two hundred years of John Ruskin / Tim Barringer, Tara Contractor, Victoria Hepburn, Judith Stapleton and Courtney Skipton Long ; with contributions by Gavriella Levy Haskell, Sophie Lynford, Mohit Manohar, and Nicolas Robbins.
Publication
  • New Haven, CT : Yale Center for British Art, [2019]
  • New Haven, CT ; London : Distributed by Yale University Press
  • ©2019

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Additional Authors
  • Barringer, T. J.
  • Contractor, Tara
  • Hepburn, Victoria
  • Stapleton, Judith
  • Long, Courtney Skipton
  • Levy Haskell, Gavriella
  • Yale Center for British Art, issuing body, host institution.
  • Watts Gallery, host institution.
Description
331 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 30 cm
Summary
This book presents an innovative portrait of John Ruskin (1819-1900) as artist, art critic, social theorist, educator, and ecological campaigner. Ruskin's juvenilia reveal an early embrace of his lifelong interests in geology and botany, art, poetry, and mythology. His early admiration of Turner led him to identify the moral power of close looking. In The Stones of Venice, illustrated with his own drawings, he argued that the development of architectural style revealed the moral condition of society. Later, Ruskin pioneered new approaches to teaching and museum practice. Influential worldwide, Ruskin's work inspired William Morris, founders of the Labour Party, and Mahatma Gandhi. Through thematic essays and detailed discussions of his works, this book argues that, complex and contradictory, Ruskin's ideas are of urgent importance today. Exhibition: Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, USA (05.09.-08.12.2019).
Alternative Title
Two hundred years of John Ruskin
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • Exhibition catalogs.
Note
  • Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, September 5-December 8, 2019 and at the Watts Gallery--Artist's Village, Compton, England, March 10-May 31, 2020.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Director's foreword / Ann Meyers -- Introduction : John Ruskin. seer of the storm-cloud / Tim Barringer -- Mountains in miniature : Ruskin's sketching and empowerment / Tara Contractor -- "Books of the Hour" : Ruskin's first editions / Victoria Hepburn -- On the anvil : John Ruskin and the work of iron / Judith Stapleton -- Epilogue : Dust to dust, Jorge Otero-Pailos after John Ruskin / Courtney Skipton Long -- Catalogue / Tim Barringer [and 7 others] -- The nature of seeing -- Going to nature -- Professor Ruskin -- Ruskin's global legacy.
Call Number
JQF 22-484
ISBN
  • 9780300246414
  • 0300246412
OCLC
1089484724
Title
Unto this last : two hundred years of John Ruskin / Tim Barringer, Tara Contractor, Victoria Hepburn, Judith Stapleton and Courtney Skipton Long ; with contributions by Gavriella Levy Haskell, Sophie Lynford, Mohit Manohar, and Nicolas Robbins.
Publisher
New Haven, CT : Yale Center for British Art, [2019]
Distributor
New Haven, CT ; London : Distributed by Yale University Press
Copyright Date
©2019
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Barringer, T. J., author.
Contractor, Tara, author.
Hepburn, Victoria, author.
Stapleton, Judith, author.
Long, Courtney Skipton, author.
Levy Haskell, Gavriella, contributor.
Yale Center for British Art, issuing body, host institution.
Watts Gallery, host institution.
Research Call Number
JQF 22-484
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