Recounts the first forty years of Ruskin's life, including his childhood and education, and discusses how these experiences shaped his writings on art and social criticism
Recounts the first forty years of Ruskin's life, including his childhood and education, and discusses how these experiences shaped his writings on art and social criticism
Surveys the origins, development, techniques, approaches, principles, motifs, and major paintings of the nineteenth-century British school, relating the painters and their works to their society
There have been many books about this astonishing artist, most of them written as celebrations of his creative abundance. Timothy Hilton has a more challenging purpose: to define Picasso's achievement
Written in the lucid intervals between the bouts of dementia that haunted his final years, Praeterita tells the story of John Ruskin's early life - the formation of his taste and intellect through ed
