Aesthetic and critical theory of John Ruskin /
This book traces the sources and development of Ruskin's aesthetic and critical theories. In his attempt to skirt the danger of excessive emotion and association in art, Ruskin's struggle with the sublime but not the picturesque, is, along with the pathetic fallacy, examined. These concept...
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
1971.
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| Series: | Princeton legacy library.
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Table of Contents:
- Preface; Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction; 1: Ruskin's Theory of the Sister Arts; I. Ruskin and the Tradition of ut Pictura Poesis; II. The Use and Moral Value of Art; III. Ruskin's Conception of Painting and Poetry as Expressive Arts; IV. Conditions of the Alliance; V. Implications of the Alliance; 2: Ruskin's Theories of Beauty; I. Ruskin's Refutation of False Opinions Held Concerning Beauty
- II. Ruskin's Theory of Typical Beauty; III. Ruskin's Theory of Vital Beauty; 3: Ruskin's Theories of the Sublime and Picturesque ; I. Ruskin's Theory of the Sublime.
- II. Two Modes of the Picturesque4: Ruskin's Religious Belief; I. Ruskin's Evangelical Belief; II. Loss of Belief; III. The Return to Belief; IV. Religion, Man, and Work; 5: Ruskin and Allegory; I. Ruskin and Nineteenth-Century Attitudes Toward Allegory; II. Ruskin's ""Language of Types"" and Evangelical Readings of Scripture; III. Typological Symbolism in the Readings of Ruskin's Childhood; IV. The Symbolical Grotesquetheories of Allegory, Artist, and Imagination; V. Myth as Allegory; VI. Ruskin's Allegorical Interpretations of Turner; VII. ""Constant Art"" and the Allegorical Ideal; Index.
