On Art and Life(Penguin Great Ideas)(论艺术与人生<企鹅经典系列>)

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves- and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now PENGOIN brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.
John Ruskin's insights into the need for individual artistic freedom,and his disdain for the mass-production art of the Victorian era,radically altered society's perceptions of creative design and remain powerfully relevant to our ideas of beauty today.

IF the reader will look back to the division of our subject which was made in the first chapter of the first volume, he will find that we are now about to enter upon the examination of that school of Venetian architecture which forms an intermediate step between the Byzantine and Gothic forms; but which I find may be conveniently considered in its connexion with the latter style.

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John Ruskin
John Ruskin was born on Feb. 8, 1819, London,died Jan. 20,1900, Coniston, Lancashire) English art critic. Ruskin was largely educated at home. He was a gifted painter, but the best of his talent went into his writing. His multivolume Modern Painters (1843–60), planned as a defense of painter J.M.W. Turner, expanded to become a general survey of art.His other writings include The Seven Lamps of Architecture (1849) and The Stones of Venice (1851–53). He was also a defender of the Pre-Raphaelites. In 1869 he was elected Oxford's first Slade professor of fine art; he resigned in 1879 after James McNeill Whistler won a libel suit against him.Ruskin remains the preeminent art critic of 19th-century Britain

1 The Nature of Gothic
2 The Work of Iron