A Joy for Ever and Its Price in the Market

In all probability the greatest Victorian critic of art and society John Ruskin had an enormous influence on his age and our own and like so many Victorians of the age he had astonishing energy. While carrying on a voluminous correspondence with the intellectual luminaries of his day he published poetry childrens literature and books and essays on geology botany church politics political economy painting sculpture literature architecture art education myth and aesthetics. A great and successful propagandist for the arts he did much both to popularize high art and to bring it to the masses as evidenced in this volume containing two essential public addresses from 1857 on The Discovery and Application of Art and The Accumulation and Distribution of Art. Included here are Ruskins Supplementary Additional Papers: . Education in Art . Art School Notes and . Social Policy. ALSO AVAILABLE AT COSIMO CLASSICS: Ruskins Political Economy of Art JOHN RUSKIN (1819-1900) was born in London the only child of prosperous self-made parents who collected art and encouraged their sons literary activities. Throughout his life his writings on art had an immense influence on British European and American architecture and industrial design. Ruskins immense body of literary works include Modern Painters Volume I-IV (1843-1856); The Seven Lamps of Architecture (1849); The Stones of Venice a collection of essays published between 1851 and 1853; Unto This Last (1862); Munera Pulveris (1862-3); The Crown of Wild Olive (1866); Time and Tide (1867); and Fors Clavigera (1871-84).