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‘For as I look deeper into the mirror, I find myself a more curious person than I had thought.’ John Ruskin (1819-1900) was a towering figure of the nineteenth century: an art critic who spoke up for J. M. W. Turner and for the art of the Italian Middle Ages; a social critic whose aspiration for, and disappointment in, the future of Great Britain was expressed in some of the most vibrant ...
Praeterita : the autobiography of John Ruskin Authors : John Ruskin , Kenneth Clark Summary : Written in the 1880s, this autobiography of one of Britain's most famous art critics of the 19th century describes his upbringing in a respectable Victorian household, his Continental travels, his friends and relations and the development and refinement of his aesthetic tastes.
16 de nov. de 1978 · Praeterita is one of the most remarkable autobiographies of the 19th century. Written by Ruskin in the 1880s between attacks of brain fever, it gives a fascinating account of his upbringing in a severely respectable Victorian household, his Continental travels, his friends and relations, and the development and refinement of his aesthetic tastes.
7 de ago. de 2019 · John Ruskin: Praeterita. John Ruskin. Edinburgh University Press, Aug 7, 2019 - Biography & Autobiography - 624 pages. Praeterita is perhaps the best-loved of all the fruits of Ruskin's many-sided and tormented genius. This exceptional biography - the first of Ruskin's works in the Whitehouse edition - simultaneously presents a deeply ...
As a memoir elevated to the level of fine art, John Ruskin’s Praeterita stands alongside The Education of Henry Adams and the confessions of Augustine, Rousseau, and Tolstoy. A luminous account of his childhood and youth, Praeterita is the last major work of the revolutionary nineteenth-century critic. Written in the lucid intervals between ...
Praeterita: The Autobiography Of John Ruskin. by John Ruskin. 3.90 · 97 Ratings · 11 Reviews · published 1886 · 82 editions. Praeterita is one of the most remarkable autobiogr…. Want to Read. Rate it: Præterita: Outlines of Scenes and Thoughts Perhaps Worthy of Memory in My Past Life (vol. i), Præterita, Vol. 2: Outlines of Scenes and ...
Praeterita is the autobiography of John Ruskin (1819-1900), art critic and social commentator and one of the most influential figures of the nineteenth century. An elegy for lost places and people, Praeterita recounts Ruskin's childhood, and his travels across Europe with passion and intimacy.
