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The influence of John Ruskin (1819-1900), both on his own time and on artistic and social developments in the twentieth century, cannot be over-stated. He changed Victorian perceptions of art, and was the main influence behind 'Gothic revival' architecture. As a social critic, he argued for the improvement of the condition of the poor, and against the increasing mechanisation of work in factories, which he believed was dull and soul-destroying. The thirty-nine volumes of the Library Edition of his works, published between 1903 and 1912, are themselves a remarkable achievement, in which his books and essays - almost all highly illustrated - are given a biographical and critical context in extended introductory essays and in the 'Minor Ruskiniana' - extracts from letters, articles and reminiscences both by and about Ruskin. This fourth volume contains volume 2 of Modern Painters.
Contents
Introduction to Vol. 4; Bibliographical note; Preface to the re-arranged edition (1883); Synopsis of contents; Part I. Modern Painters Vol. II (Containing the Text of All the Editions); Section 1. Of the Theoretic Faculty: 1. Of the rank and relations of the theoretic faculty; 2. Of the theoretic faculty as concerned with pleasures of sense; 3. Of accuracy and inaccuracy in impressions of sense; 4. Of false opinions held concerning beauty; 5. Of typical beauty; 6. Of unity; 7. Of repose; 8. Of symmetry; 9. Of purity; 10. Of moderation; 11. General inferences respecting typical beauty; 12. Of vital beauty; 13. Of generic vital beauty; 14. Of vital beauty in man; 15. General conclusions respecting the theoretic faculty; Section 2. Of the Imaginative Faculty: Author's introductory note (1883); 1. Of the three forms of imagination; 2. Of imagination associative; 3. Of imagination penetrative; 4. Of imagination contemplative; 5. Of the superhuman ideal; Part II: Addenda (1848); Epilogue (1883); Appendix.
