John Ruskin and Aesthetic Thought in America, 1840-1900

✍ Scribed by Roger B. Stein

Publisher: Harvard University Press
Year: 1967
Tongue: English
Leaves: 348
Edition: Reprint 2014
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Table of Contents

PREFACE
CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS
I. THE AMERICAN SETTING
II. MODERN PAINTERS: THE FIRST AMERICAN REACTION (1847–1850)
III. THE PROBLEM OF GOTHIC (1848–1859)
IV. ART, NATURE, AND RELIGION: THE RECEPTION OF RUSKIN (1851–1861)
V. RUSKINISM IN AMERICA: THE CRAYON (1855–1861)
VI. THE RUSKINIAN AS ART HISTORIAN
VII. CIVIL WAR INTERLUDE: THE NEW PATH
VIII. RUSKIN AND THE SCIENTISTS
IX. THE ATTACK ON RUSKIN: AESTHETIC THEORY AND PRACTICE
X. THE DEFENSE OF RUSKIN: ART, MORALITY, AND AESTHETIC EDUCATION
EPILOGUE
APPENDIX. NOTES. INDEX
APPENDIX. THE PUBLICATION OF RUSKIN’S WORKS IN THE UNITED STATES
NOTES
INDEX

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