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Elements of Drawing by John Ruskin
$45.00 AUD
Category: Photography
Ruskin's "The Elements of Drawing", first published in 1857, remains one of the most sensible and useful books on how to draw and paint, both for the amateur and the professional artist. Ruskin reduces the art of drawing to its simplest elements - the making of marks, the perception of shapes and silhou ...Show more
Giotto and His Works in Padua by John Ruskin
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Category: Art and Design | Series: Ekphrasis Ser.
On Art and Life by John Ruskin
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Great Ideas 15 | Reading Level: very good
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 Penguin brings you the w ...Show more
Selected Writings by John Ruskin
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'To be taught to write or to speak - but what is the use of speaking, if you have nothing to say? To be taught to think - nay, what is the use of being able to think, if you have nothing to think of? But to be taught to see is to gain word and thought at once, and both true.' Ruskin was the most powerfu ...Show more
The Elements of Drawing by John Ruskin
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Category: Art and Design | Series: Dover Art Instruction
Timeless work by one of the greatest art critics of all time begins with bare fundamentals and offers brilliant philosophical advice from sketching to the laws of color and composition. "The truth behind Ruskin's statements is always clear." - American Artist. 48 illustrations.
The Lamp of Memory by John Ruskin
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Great Ideas | Reading Level: very good
John Ruskin overturned Victorian society's ideas about art and architecture, arguing that ancient buildings must be conserved for their deep, mystical links with the past and that creative design is essential - not for financial gain, but to communicate eternal human truths. Throughout history, some boo ...Show more
The Stones of Venice by John Ruskin
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Category: Architecture and Urbanism
John Ruskin, Victorian England's greatest writer on art and literature, believed himself an adopted son of Venice, and his feelings for this city are expressed in this text. This edition contains Ruskin's essay "The Nature of Gothic", a descriptive tour of Venice before its postwar restoration.
Traffic: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s #6 by John Ruskin
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Category: Classics | Series: Little Black Classics
'You shall have thousands of gold pieces; - thousands of thousands - millions - mountains of gold: where will you keep them?' Two of Ruskin's most powerful essays: 'Traffic' and 'The Roots of Honour'. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrat ...Show more
'Unto This Last' & Other Writings by John Ruskin
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser.
First and foremost an outcry against injustice and inhumanity, Unto this Last is also a closely argued assault on the science of political economy, which dominated the Victorian period. Ruskin was a profoundly conservative man who looked back to the Middle Ages as a Utopia, yet his ideas had a considera ...Show more
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