Notes on Ruskin: the Ideal
This will be the last of these, as I’ve finished the book, and am now Observing Nietzsche flop-sweat his way … Continue reading Notes on Ruskin: the Ideal
Tag: John Ruskin
Notes on Ruskin: Modern Art is Anti-Art
An intriquing passage from On Art and Life, which nicely explains the aethetic rut that modern art has fallen into: … Continue reading Notes on Ruskin: Modern Art is Anti-Art
Notes on Ruskin: The Absurd Rule
Much of Ruskin’s On the Nature of Gothic involves a pre-Marxist critique of industrialization. I’m not sure if it qualifies … Continue reading Notes on Ruskin: The Absurd Rule
Notes on Ruskin: The Geography of Gothic
I don’t know what caused Penguin to introduce a Great Ideas series, or by what criteria they determine what ideas … Continue reading Notes on Ruskin: The Geography of Gothic
Brutalism’s Anti-Aesthetic.
In Ruskin’s On Art and Life, discussion of the features of Gothic archtecture lead to a passage nicely prophetic: From … Continue reading Brutalism’s Anti-Aesthetic.
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