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Автор: Hilton
Название: John Ruskin - The Later Years
ISBN: 9780300194852
Издательство: Wiley yUP
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ISBN-10: 0300194854
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 680
Вес: 0.99 кг.
Дата издания: 2012
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: Black & white illustrations
Размер: 233 x 159 x 36
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
Основная тема: Biography
Подзаголовок: The later years
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: This is the second and final volume of Tim Hiltons acclaimed life of John Ruskin, one of the greatest writers and thinkers of the nineteenth century. Ruskin was the most prolific English writer there has ever been. His published works alone number some 250 titles, and this is besides lectures, diaries, and tens of thousands of letters that remain unpublished. This is the first biography of Ruskin to return to the original source material, some of which has been read for the first time since being written, by the author. It begins in 1859 with Ruskin, famous as the author of Modern Painters, The Seven Lamps of Architecture and The Stones of Venice, living in south London with his parents, his disastrous marriage over, continuing to write and travel and to tutor, amongst other pupils, Rose La Touche, a girl of ten, with whom he slowly fell in love. This relationship would develop into one of the saddest love affairs of literary history ending in tragedy in 1875, and from which Ruskin would never recover. From 1875 onwards Ruskin was plagued by bouts of insanity and despair that would lead to total breakdown for the last ten years of his life, but, as Hilton shows, the later years, far from being a period merely of decline, were a time when the great mans intellect and imagination reached new heights. It was in these years that Ruskin produced Praeterita and most of Fors Clavigera - the series of monthly letters to British workers which Hilton discusses in the context of the writers life. Ruskins versatility was astonishing. He could be instigating plans for draining slum marshland on the outskirts of Oxford or setting up the philanthropic Guild of St George, or he was adding to his extensive collections of minerals or paintings (particularly Turners) or literary manuscripts. As Slade Professor of Art at the University of Oxford he founded his drawing schools, today the Ruskin School of Art. His books and lectures were on subjects ranging from history of art to social reform to botany. Hilton gives a magisterial and moving account of this brilliant and creative mind and shows Ruskin to have been the most eloquent and radical of all the great Victorian writers. Tim Hilton has taught painting and history of art in several British art schools and universities. His previous books include The Pre-Raphaelites, Picasso, and The Sculpture of Phillip King. He has written the catalogues of a number of exhibitions, including Drawings by Miro (1980), Picassos Picassos (1982) and Anthony Caro (1984). Former art critic for the Guardian and the Independent on Sunday, his John Ruskin: The Early Years was published in 1985 and remains available today.