Lectures on Art (Aesthetics Today) - Softcover

Ruskin, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1880559544 ISBN 13: 9781880559543

Publisher: Allworth Press, 1997

Synopsis

Reflecting Ruskin's belief that art is not an isolated pursuit, but one intimately connected with all aspects of human life, Lectures on Art explores the relation of art to religion, morals, and practicality as well as the significance of line, light, and color. This edition includes a new introduction by Bill Beckley, a widely exhibited artist who teaches semiotics at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

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About the Author:

John Ruskin (1819-1900) was the most influential art critic of the nineteenth century. A watercolorist, a botanist, a moralist, a sensualist, a socialist, an economist, a Romantic, a prophet, a priest, and a poet, his writings integrate the aesthetic experience with moral purpose and ecology. He established his reputation with The Stones of Venice and his masterwork, Modern Painters, then held the Slade Professorship of Art at Oxford University from 1870 to 1878. One of his students, Oscar Wilde, said of him, "To you the gods gave eloquence such as they have given no other, so that your message might come to us from the fire of passion and the marvel of music, making the deaf to hear and the blind to see. Bill Beckley is an artist who has exhibited widely in America and Europe since l970. His works are in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum, and the Guggenheim in New York; The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston; and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. He teaches Semiotics and Film at the School of Visual Arts in New York and is the editor for the Aesthetics Today series from Allworth Press.

Review:

"Lectures on Art makes a reappearance on the bookshelves at just the right time . . . . Many connections can be found to current theories in art and cultural studies." -- Communication Arts, April, 1998

About this edition

• Publisher: Allworth Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 1880559544
• ISBN 13: 9781880559543
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 264