Author: Rose La Touche
Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
John Ruskin and Rose La Touche
Author: Rose La Touche
Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
John Ruskin and Rose La Touche, Her Unpublished Diaries of 1861 and 1867
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Ruskin's Rose
Author: Mimma Balia
Publisher: Artisan Publishers
ISBN: 9781579651374
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A Venetian love story unfolds as readers follow the true story of historian and author John Ruskin and his journey of healing in the city of Venice in 1876. Recovering from the death of his clandestine love, Ruskin rediscovers art through the paintings of 15th-century artist Vittore Carpaccio. 60 color photos and illustrations.
Publisher: Artisan Publishers
ISBN: 9781579651374
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A Venetian love story unfolds as readers follow the true story of historian and author John Ruskin and his journey of healing in the city of Venice in 1876. Recovering from the death of his clandestine love, Ruskin rediscovers art through the paintings of 15th-century artist Vittore Carpaccio. 60 color photos and illustrations.
Human-Built World
Author: Thomas P. Hughes
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022612066X
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
To most people, technology has been reduced to computers, consumer goods, and military weapons; we speak of "technological progress" in terms of RAM and CD-ROMs and the flatness of our television screens. In Human-Built World, thankfully, Thomas Hughes restores to technology the conceptual richness and depth it deserves by chronicling the ideas about technology expressed by influential Western thinkers who not only understood its multifaceted character but who also explored its creative potential. Hughes draws on an enormous range of literature, art, and architecture to explore what technology has brought to society and culture, and to explain how we might begin to develop an "ecotechnology" that works with, not against, ecological systems. From the "Creator" model of development of the sixteenth century to the "big science" of the 1940s and 1950s to the architecture of Frank Gehry, Hughes nimbly charts the myriad ways that technology has been woven into the social and cultural fabric of different eras and the promises and problems it has offered. Thomas Jefferson, for instance, optimistically hoped that technology could be combined with nature to create an Edenic environment; Lewis Mumford, two centuries later, warned of the increasing mechanization of American life. Such divergent views, Hughes shows, have existed side by side, demonstrating the fundamental idea that "in its variety, technology is full of contradictions, laden with human folly, saved by occasional benign deeds, and rich with unintended consequences." In Human-Built World, he offers the highly engaging history of these contradictions, follies, and consequences, a history that resurrects technology, rightfully, as more than gadgetry; it is in fact no less than an embodiment of human values.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022612066X
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
To most people, technology has been reduced to computers, consumer goods, and military weapons; we speak of "technological progress" in terms of RAM and CD-ROMs and the flatness of our television screens. In Human-Built World, thankfully, Thomas Hughes restores to technology the conceptual richness and depth it deserves by chronicling the ideas about technology expressed by influential Western thinkers who not only understood its multifaceted character but who also explored its creative potential. Hughes draws on an enormous range of literature, art, and architecture to explore what technology has brought to society and culture, and to explain how we might begin to develop an "ecotechnology" that works with, not against, ecological systems. From the "Creator" model of development of the sixteenth century to the "big science" of the 1940s and 1950s to the architecture of Frank Gehry, Hughes nimbly charts the myriad ways that technology has been woven into the social and cultural fabric of different eras and the promises and problems it has offered. Thomas Jefferson, for instance, optimistically hoped that technology could be combined with nature to create an Edenic environment; Lewis Mumford, two centuries later, warned of the increasing mechanization of American life. Such divergent views, Hughes shows, have existed side by side, demonstrating the fundamental idea that "in its variety, technology is full of contradictions, laden with human folly, saved by occasional benign deeds, and rich with unintended consequences." In Human-Built World, he offers the highly engaging history of these contradictions, follies, and consequences, a history that resurrects technology, rightfully, as more than gadgetry; it is in fact no less than an embodiment of human values.
Praeterita
Author: John Ruskin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Ill Feelings
Author: Alice Hattrick
Publisher: Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN: 1558614133
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
An intrepid, galvanizing meditation on illness, disability, feminism, and what it means to be alive. In 1995 Alice’s mother collapsed with pneumonia. She never fully recovered and was eventually diagnosed with ME, or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Then Alice got ill. Their symptoms mirrored their mother’s and appeared to have no physical cause; they received the same diagnosis a few years later. Ill Feelings blends memoir, medical history, biography and literary nonfiction to uncover both of their case histories, and branches out into the records of ill health that women have written about in diaries and letters. Their cast of characters includes Virginia Woolf and Alice James, the poets Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Emily Dickinson, John Ruskin’s lost love Rose la Touche, the artist Louise Bourgeois and the nurse Florence Nightingale. Suffused with a generative, transcendent rage, Alice Hattrick’s genre-bending debut is a moving and defiant exploration of life with a medically unexplained illness.
Publisher: Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN: 1558614133
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
An intrepid, galvanizing meditation on illness, disability, feminism, and what it means to be alive. In 1995 Alice’s mother collapsed with pneumonia. She never fully recovered and was eventually diagnosed with ME, or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Then Alice got ill. Their symptoms mirrored their mother’s and appeared to have no physical cause; they received the same diagnosis a few years later. Ill Feelings blends memoir, medical history, biography and literary nonfiction to uncover both of their case histories, and branches out into the records of ill health that women have written about in diaries and letters. Their cast of characters includes Virginia Woolf and Alice James, the poets Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Emily Dickinson, John Ruskin’s lost love Rose la Touche, the artist Louise Bourgeois and the nurse Florence Nightingale. Suffused with a generative, transcendent rage, Alice Hattrick’s genre-bending debut is a moving and defiant exploration of life with a medically unexplained illness.
The Art of Ruskin and the Spirit of Place
Author: John Dixon Hunt
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1789142768
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
English art critic John Ruskin was one of the great visionaries of his time, and his influential books and letters on the power of art challenged the foundations of Victorian life. He loved looking. Sometimes it informed the things he wrote, but often it provided access to the many topographical and cultural topics he explored—rocks, plants, birds, Turner, Venice, the Alps. In The Art of Ruskin and the Spirit of Place, John Dixon Hunt focuses for the first time on what Ruskin drew, rather than wrote, offering a new perspective on Ruskin’s visual imagination. Through analysis of more than 150 drawings and sketches, many reproduced here, he shows how Ruskin’s art shaped his writings, his thoughts, and his sense of place.
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1789142768
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
English art critic John Ruskin was one of the great visionaries of his time, and his influential books and letters on the power of art challenged the foundations of Victorian life. He loved looking. Sometimes it informed the things he wrote, but often it provided access to the many topographical and cultural topics he explored—rocks, plants, birds, Turner, Venice, the Alps. In The Art of Ruskin and the Spirit of Place, John Dixon Hunt focuses for the first time on what Ruskin drew, rather than wrote, offering a new perspective on Ruskin’s visual imagination. Through analysis of more than 150 drawings and sketches, many reproduced here, he shows how Ruskin’s art shaped his writings, his thoughts, and his sense of place.
The Letters of John Ruskin to Lord and Lady Mount-Temple
Author: John Ruskin
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
ISBN: 0814200265
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
ISBN: 0814200265
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
The Failing Distance
Author: Jay Fellows
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
The Works of John Ruskin
Author: John Ruskin
Publisher: Irving Lewis Press
ISBN: 1443718297
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
The Works Of John Ruskin: Volume XXII. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Publisher: Irving Lewis Press
ISBN: 1443718297
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
The Works Of John Ruskin: Volume XXII. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.