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Title: Selections from the Works of John Ruskin
Author: Edited by Chauncey B. Tinker, 1918
File: Free Book, PDF 976 KB, 169 pages

Review
Architecture and art critic John Ruskin's lectures at Oxford and books influenced a whole generation of architects, artists and designers like William Morris and Gustav Stickley. Inspiring a movement became the Arts & Crafts Movement of Britain and the United States. This book is a selection of his works.

Learn more about John Ruskin at Wikipedia

Table of Contents

• Introduction
  o The Life of Ruskin
  o The Unity of Ruskin's Writings
  o Ruskin's Style
  
  
• Selections From Modern Painters
  o The Earth-Veil
  o The Mountain Glory
  o Sunrise on the Alps
  o The Grand Style
  o Of Realization
  o Of the Novelty of Landscape
  o Of the Pathetic Fallacy
  o Of Classical Landscape
  o Of Modern Landscape o The Two Boyhoods
  
  
• Selections From The Stones of Venice
  o The Throne
  o St. Mark's
  o Characteristics of Gothic Architecture
  
  
• Selections From The Seven Lamps of Architecture
  o The Lamp of Memory
  o The Lamp of Obedience
  
  
• Selections From Lectures on Art
  o Inaugural
  o The Relation of Art to Morals
  o The Relation of Art to Use
  
  
• ART AND HISTORY
  
  
• TRAFFIC
  
  
• LIFE AND ITS ARTS
  
  
• BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE