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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 seventh volume contains Volume 5 of Modern Painters.
Contents
Introduction to Vol. 7; Bibliographical note; Part I. Modern Painters Vol. V (Containing the Text of All the Editions); Section 6. Of Leaf Beauty: 1. The earth-veil; 2. The leaf-orders; 3. The bud; 4. The leaf; 5. Leaf aspects; 6. The branch; 7. The stem; 8. The leaf monuments; 9. The leaf shadows; 10. Leaves motionless; Section 7. Of Cloud Beauty: 1. The cloud-balancings; 2. The cloud-flocks; 3. The cloud-chariots; 4. The angel of the sea; Section 8. Of Ideas of Relation - First, of Invention Formal: 1. The law of help; 2. The task of the least; 3. The rule of the greatest; 4. The law of perfectness; Section 9. Of Ideas of Relation - Second, of Invention Spiritual: 1. The dark mirror; 2. The lance of Pallas; 3. The wings of the lion; 4. Dürer and Salvator; 5. Claude and Poussin; 6. Rubens and Cuyp; 7. Of vulgarity; 8. Wouvermans and Angelico; 9. The two boyhoods; 10. The Nereid's guard; 11. The Hesperid Aeglé; 12. Peace; Epilogue (1888); Part II: Appendix.
