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Subscribers sent protest letters, but Ruskin countered the attack and published the four articles in a book in May 1862. One of the few that received the book positively was Thomas Carlyle, whom Ruskin said had "led the way" for Unto This Last with his critique of laissez-faire political economy as the "Dismal Science". [5] Carlyle wrote to Ruskin:
The statement is often displayed or published in a one-sentence version: "There is hardly anything in the world that cannot be made a little worse and sold a little cheaper, and those who consider price alone are that man's lawful prey." This quote is often attributed to the British artist and poet, John Ruskin. Or simply, "you get what you pay ...
John Ruskin (8 February 1819 – 20 January 1900) was an English polymath – a writer, lecturer, art historian, art critic, draughtsman and philanthropist of the Victorian era.
The Stones of Venice is a three-volume treatise on Venetian art and architecture by English art historian John Ruskin, first published from 1851 to 1853.. The Stones of Venice examines Venetian architecture in detail, describing for example over eighty churches.
Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain was the name given by John Ruskin to a series of letters addressed to British workmen during the 1870s. They were published in the form of pamphlets.
Modern Painters (1843–1860) is a five-volume work by the Victorian art critic John Ruskin, begun when he was 24 years old based on material collected in Switzerland in 1842. [1] Ruskin argues that recent painters emerging from the tradition of the picturesque are superior in the art of landscape to the old masters.
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John Ruskin, who coined the term Illth in Unto This Last. In Ruskin's view: Wealth, therefore, is "The possession of the valuable by the valiant"; and in considering it as a power existing in a nation, the two elements, the value of the thing, and the valour of its possessor, must be estimated together.