Ruskin, whose life spanned almost a century from 1819 to 1900, was one of the most influential cultural and intellectual figures of his age. He was fundamentally a post-Romantic visionary; this fact underlies his activities as art critic and writer on architecture and also his passionate advocacy of an alternative social model for England. There is no Wealth but Life, wrote Ruskin in his political essays of the 1860s. This new biography shows him as a whole, demonstrating that his seemingly disparate ideas accrue into a ...
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Ruskin, whose life spanned almost a century from 1819 to 1900, was one of the most influential cultural and intellectual figures of his age. He was fundamentally a post-Romantic visionary; this fact underlies his activities as art critic and writer on architecture and also his passionate advocacy of an alternative social model for England. There is no Wealth but Life, wrote Ruskin in his political essays of the 1860s. This new biography shows him as a whole, demonstrating that his seemingly disparate ideas accrue into a developed - though constantly evolving - vision of the good society, and that the public activity of the man was at every stage closely associated with his disastrous private life.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 800grams, ISBN: 1856195805.
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Used-Very Good. VG hardback in VG dust jacket. 1st edition, with colour & B&W illustrations. Text clean; binding tight; dust jacket not price-clipped, & protected in removable clear sleeve. A very nice copy.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. Cloth in dust jacket, illustrated, clean unmarked text, near fine copy in near fine dust jacket. Dust jacket housed in archival dust jacket protector.
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Definitive biography of the eminent Victorian art critic and social activist. Lrge 8vo 9x6" Green Boards HB in Millais portrait detail unpriceclipped DJ. 369pp, all clean and tight, FINE AS NEW.
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Definitive biography of the eminent Victorian art critic and social activist. Lrge 8vo 9x6" Green Boards HB in Millais portrait detail unpriceclipped DJ bound in transparent protector. 369pp, all clean and tight, VG/VG.
