The Two Paths: Being Lectures on Art, and Its Application to Decoration and Manufacture, Delivered in 1858-9 (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Ruskin, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0483544426 ISBN 13: 9780483544420

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from The Two Paths: Being Lectures on Art, and Its Application to Decoration and Manufacture, Delivered in 1858-9

As I passed, last summer, for the first time, through the north of Scotland, it seemed to me that there was a peculiar painfulness in its scenery, caused by the non-manifestation of the powers of human art. I had never travelled in, nor even heard or conceived of such a country before; nor, though I had passed much of my life amidst mountain.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0483544426
• ISBN 13: 9780483544420
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 430