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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"John Ruskin"”.
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'The Sancity Of Womanhood': John Ruskin And The Medieval Madonna
… and the same for British art and social critic John Ruskin. His complexly layered rhetoric, most poignantly expressed through the sanctified image of the medieval Madonna, serve as one interesting and much-judged example of many reactions to the tumultuous new social conditions of industrial, …
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Imagining membership and its obligations : the voice of John Ruskin in Wendell Berry's fiction.
This study explores the ways in which John Ruskin's artistic and social criticism illuminate persuasive elements in Wendell Berry's fiction, primarily his three major novels: A Place on Earth, Hannah Coulter, and Jayber Crow. By attending to Ruskin's voice, readers of Berry learn how ethical …
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Arthur Lismer in the context of Sheffield
… and particularly the pervading influence of John Ruskin. Parallels are drawn between Lismer's Sheffield background and his views on art appreciation, which included concerns about art training and education, the lack of aesthetic awareness, and the need for social and civic responsibility in …
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Material dialogues : exploring design methodologies in material tectonics through stone morphologies
… such as the works of Gottfried Semper (2011), John Ruskin (1849), Kenneth Frampton (1998), and more recently, Manuel Delanda (2011 ), Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari (2005). By focusing on the morphological development of stone in classical and digital tectonic discourse, this research …
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Roger Fry as a Protestant Art Critic
… leading nineteenth-century British art critic John Ruskin. I discuss the problems both men had in engaging with a predominately Catholic art form, and place their work within a wider British tradition. I consider their personal histories and how they gave a similar interpretation of art …
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Science, politics, and soul-making: the Romantic encounter with climate change
… (William Cowper, Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, John Keats and John Ruskin), I argue that an epistemic shift occurred in the way Britons understood their own climate’s history and its relationship to the earth’s climate. Using an ecohistorical method that combines close historical inquiry and …
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The Many Functions of Taste: Aesthetics, Ethics, and Desire in Nineteenth-Century England
… I track how the Victorian cultural critics John Ruskin, Matthew Arnold, and Oscar Wilde used taste to connect aesthetics to ethics as they alternately participated in and resisted two powerful trends: the increasing tendency to imagine the aesthetic as an autonomous realm unconnected to …
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Drawing on nature : the legacy of Ruskin’s moral cosmos
… perceiving and understanding, to gain insight. John Ruskin advocated drawing as a means of looking and self-education, encouraging all to learn to draw in order to love nature. In the text submitted here, the visual and the verbal are interpreting each other. The drawings form a visual journal …
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Desiring myth: history, mythos and art in the work of Flaubert and Proust
… as a writer involves resurrecting the soul of John Ruskin and culminates in his protagonist’s initiation into the Arts. Proust culminates a series of attempts since the Realists to analyse the predicament of post-revolutionary Man. The works of the two authors show a flight from the exterior …
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From Rio to Romola: Morality and Didacticism in the English Appreciation of Early Italian Art 1836-1863
… discussion focuses upon the writing of A.F.Rio, John Ruskin and Anna Jameson. and the displays of the National Gallery, British Institution and Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition of 1857. It is my contention that the taste for early Italian painting and the theories which supported it gave fresh …
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The Ethics of Rust: an interpretation of Ruskin's gothic
… is to demonstrate that the critical theories of John Ruskin have a particular interest to us at the end of the 20th century. The basis for this claim is that Ruskin’s mode of thought was essentially ecological. By this I do not mean to suggest that he was simply interested in nature conservation …
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The Ethics of Rust: an interpretation of Ruskin's gothic
… is to demonstrate that the critical theories of John Ruskin have a particular interest to us at the end of the 20th century. The basis for this claim is that Ruskin’s mode of thought was essentially ecological. By this I do not mean to suggest that he was simply interested in nature conservation …
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Postsecular Victorians: literature, culture, and belief
… Charlotte Brontë, Matthew Arnold, John Ruskin, and John Stuart Mill—actively grappled with issues of faith and rationality in a rapidly-changing economic, political, and cultural landscape. Prefiguring many of the key insights of the so-called “postsecular turn,” the work of these …
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Socialisation and subversion : the development of the Victorian children's literary fairy tale
… under the second division are those written by John Ruskin, Charles Dickens, George MacDonald, Mary de Morgan, Juliana Ewing, Evelyn Sharp and Edith Nesbit. Through the analysis of selected fairy tales, the thesis sets out to show how the development of the English literary fairy tale, during …
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Victorian criticism of the Waverley Novels of Sir Walter Scott, 1832 to 1900
… Martineau, Thomas Carlyle, Walter Bagehot, John Ruskin, Leslie Stephen, Richard Hutton and Julia Wedgwood. The thesis concludes with an epilogic section covering critics of the late nineteenth century, including Frederic Harrison and Andrew Lang. In each instance the context of each critic's …
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Brynmawr experiment 1928-1940 : Quaker values and arts and crafts principles
… each individual. These were also the concerns of John Ruskin and William Morris which motivated the formation of the Arts and Crafts Movement in the! 880s. The Arts and Crafts principles which persisted into the twentieth century in the craft communities of C. R. Ashbee and of Eric Gill, and in …
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Women in the Imperial Art World: Anglo-Australian Women Artists and their Transnational Careers, 1885 - 1907
… Sophia Sinnett in 1875, the British art critic John Ruskin replied to her with the advice, 'you must resolve to be quite a great paintress; the feminine termination does not exist, there never having been such a being...as a lady who could paint. Try to be the first'. Almost a century later in …
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Women in the Imperial Art World: Anglo-Australian Women Artists and their Transnational Careers, 1885 - 1907
… Sophia Sinnett in 1875, the British art critic John Ruskin replied to her with the advice, 'you must resolve to be quite a great paintress; the feminine termination does not exist, there never having been such a being...as a lady who could paint. Try to be the first'. Almost a century later in …
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Historicizing performativity: Constructing identities in Victorian England
… Mulock Craik, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, John Stuart Mill, John Ruskin, and Mrs. Henry Wood.
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