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Bezig met laden... The Ethics of the Dust (1865)door John Ruskin
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. This is a curious book, consisting of Victorian Socratic dialogues superficially about the crystallisation of minerals. What is also discussed is a mixture of myth, aesthetics, ethics, philosophy, and theology, which overlap with each other to some extent, being used as analogies and illustrations for one other. In some places it seems childish, but the serious messages that are also here are quite profound. It is never unenjoyable to read due to the seeming lightness of gravity with which it was written, and the poetical leaning of the author whenever an image is produced in order to explain something. I don't quite know what to make of this book, but I will look out for other works by Ruskin in the future because he has caught my imagination. ( ) geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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John Ruskin was born in England in 1819. He was a critic of art, architecture and society. He was a Victorian sage and gifted painter. He goal with his writings was to cause widespread cultural and social change. This combination of the religious intensity of the Evangelical Revival and the artistic excitement of English Romantic painting laid the foundations of Ruskin's later views. The Encyclopedia Britannica sums up Ruskin as follows. "Ruskin has gradually been rediscovered. His formative importance as a thinker about ecology, about the conservation of buildings and environments, about Romantic painting, about art education, and about the human cost of the mechanization of work became steadily more obvious. The outstanding quality of his own drawings and watercolors (modestly treated in his lifetime as working notes or amateur sketches) was increasingly acknowledged, as was his role as a stimulus to the flowering of British painting, architecture, and decorative art in the second half of the 19th century." Ruskin's full title for these lectures is The Ethics of the Dust. Ten Lectures to Little Housewives on the Elements of Crystallization. In the preface Ruskin wrote; "It will be at once seen that these Lectures were not intended for an introduction to mineralogy. Their purpose was merely to awaken in the minds of young girls, who were ready to work earnestly and systematically, a vital interest in the subject of their study. No science can be learned in play; but it is often possible, in play, to bring good fruit out of past labor, or show sufficient reasons for the labor of the future." Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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