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On Art and Life (Penguin Great Ideas)
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 709
EAN: 9780143036289
ISBN: 0143036289
Label: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 128
Publication Date: September 06, 2005
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Studio: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Rating:  - How to appreciate art and life
This little book contains two essays from John Ruskin:"The nature of Gothic" and "The work of iron".
This book opened my eyes to the nature of different types of buildings and the nature of the art used to adorn them. What type of stone or metal was used and why were certain decorations were used in the work. I had previously given no thought to this. I will now look on ancient buildings as works of art.
In the last essay he explains the life giving properties of iron. How it gives life ... Read More
Rating:  - Beauty Remembered
Nietzsche said that with the death of the sacred, Beauty would continue, albeit accidentally.
Mr. John Ruskin, however, set his sights on an earlier age, developing six principles that could be applied to gothic beauty, and in so doing, in my eyes, set down the principles for Beauty in general.
The principles are: Rudeness, Changefulness, Naturalness, Grotesqueness, Rigidity and Redundancy.
In our post-industrial age, perhaps the most telling is the first, Rudeness. ... Read More
Rating: - Ruskin's sweatshop nightmare.
We are now living in John Ruskin's nightmare, an industrialized, sweatshop world of mass-produced, unnecessary goods. Victorian Ruskin (1819-1900) believed in the need for individual creative expression. "You must either make a tool of the creature, or a man of him. You cannot make both. Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions. . . On the other hand, if you will make a man of the working creature, you cannot make him a tool. Let him but ... Read More
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