Sesame & Lilies - Couverture souple

Ruskin, John

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0300092601 ISBN 13 : 9780300092608

Editeur : Yale University Press, 2002

Synopsis

Sesame and Lilies John Ruskin's "Sesame and Lilies", first published in 1865, is a classic 19th-century statement on the natures and duties of men and women. This volume reunites the two halves of the work, "Of Kings' Treasuries" and "Of Queens' Gardens", along with essays placing the work in historical context. Full description

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

John Ruskin (8 February 1819 – 20 January 1900) was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, as well as an art patron, draughtsman, watercolourist, a prominent social thinker and philanthropist. He wrote on subjects as varied as geology, architecture, myth, ornithology, literature, education, botany and political economy. His writing styles and literary forms were equally varied. Ruskin also penned essays and treatises, poetry and lectures, travel guides and manuals, letters and even a fairy tale. The elaborate style that characterised his earliest writing on art was later superseded by a preference for plainer language designed to communicate his ideas more effectively. In all of his writing, he emphasised the connections between nature, art and society. He also made detailed sketches and paintings of rocks, plants, birds, landscapes, and architectural structures and ornamentation. He was hugely influential in the latter half of the 19th century, and up to the First World War. After a period of relative decline, his reputation has steadily improved since the 1960s with the publication of numerous academic studies of his work. Today, his ideas and concerns are widely recognised as having anticipated interest in environmentalism, sustainability and craft. Ruskin first came to widespread attention with the first volume of Modern Painters (1843), an extended essay in defence of the work of J. M. W. Turner in which he argued that the principal role of the artist is "truth to nature". From the 1850s he championed the Pre-Raphaelites who were influenced by his ideas. His work increasingly focused on social and political issues. Unto This Last (1860, 1862) marked the shift in emphasis. In 1869, Ruskin became the first Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Oxford, where he established the Ruskin School of Drawing. In 1871, he began his monthly "letters to the workmen and labourers of Great Britain", published under the title Fors Clavigera (1871–1884). In the course of this complex and deeply personal work, he developed the principles underlying his ideal society. As a result, he founded the Guild of St George, an organisation that endures today.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

The text of Sesame and Lilies here presented is that of the Brantwood edition the recognized American edition. I have included Buskin sown preface to the edition of 1882 as undoubtedly helpful in understanding the man and his book. The notes are fuller than could be wished. In the case of the Biblical allusions for example, I should have preferred to leave the identification to the student as part of the intense reading that Buskin eloquently urges. But I have quailed before the cry of insufficient time which comes from high-school teachers of English everywhere. Only a few parallel passages are adduced from Buskin sother works. His message was, as I have tried to point out, so single, 80 constantly recurred to in all his writings, that his works may almost be said to be made up of a series of parallel passages. Only when what he has said elsewhere has served in some fashion to explain what he says here, have I cited it. How the student is to use the notes may safely be left to the individual teacher. But one thing it seems wise to urge, and urge strongly that not a word of the lectures themselves be read until the first two sections of the Introduction have been talked over carefully in the classroom. This is to reverse the ordinary procedure.
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À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Yale University Press
• Date d'édition: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0300092601
• ISBN 13: 9780300092608
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256