Overview

John Ruskin exerted a powerful and pervading influence on architects and architecture in the nineteenth century and his legacy can still be felt today. His highly individual (and idiosyncratic) prose encouraged the lay person to look and think about architecture and he covered strands as diverse as the choice of style, the use of polychromy, the relations between the workman and his work, and even between politics and the arts. In this book leading experts in Ruskin and architectural history re-examine these and numerous other issues, often providing wholly new insights into the man, his writings and his influence upon architecture and the cultural landscape of his day and since. The essays that make up this substantial and richly illustrated book, shed new and revealing light on the wide-ranging and profound influence of this great writer and thinker on architecture.

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Author:   Rebecca Daniels ,  Geoff Brandwood
Publisher:   Spire Books Ltd
Imprint:   Spire Books Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 16.70cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.90cm
Weight:   0.835kg
ISBN:  

9780954361518

ISBN 10:   0954361512
Pages:   382
Publication Date:   01 December 2003
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   No Longer Our Product
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Table of Contents

Foreword David Barrie Introduction: Ruskinisms Michael Brooks 1 Ruskin's Architectural Heritage: The Seven Lamps of Architecture - Reception and Legacy Gill Chitty 2 'As beautiful as anything I know in civil Gothic', or 'a very shabby bit of work of mine': Ruskin and the Oxford University Museum Peter Howell 3 Ruskin and the English House Geoffrey Tyack 4 Labor ipse voluptas: Scott, Street, Ruskin, and the Value of Work Brian Hanson 5 Ruskin and the Politics of Gothic Chris Brooks 6 'Intellectual Lens and Moral Retina': A Reappraisal of Ruskin's Architectural Vision Malcolm Hardman 7 Ruskin and Pugin Rosemary Hill 8 G. F. Bodley and the Response to Ruskin in Ecclesiastical Architecture in the 1850s Michael Hall 9 'Theoria' in Practice: E. W. Godwin, Ruskin and Art-Architecture Aileen Reid 10 John Dando Sedding and Sculpture in Architecture: The Fulfilment of a Ruskinian Ideal? Paul Snell 11 Ruskin Today: Building the Ruskin Library, Lancaster Richard MacCormac Notes on contributors Index

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the papers are generally splendid.'--Michael J Lewis Society of Architectural Historians (01/01/2006)

"the papers are generally splendid.'--Michael J Lewis ""Society of Architectural Historians, 2006"""

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