The Works of John Ruskin Modern Painters III

The influence of John Ruskin (1819–1900), both on his own time and on artistic and social developments in the twentieth century, cannot be over-stated. He changed Victorian perceptions of art, and was the main influence behind 'Gothic revival' architecture. As a social critic, he argued for the improvement of the condition of the poor, and against the increasing mechanisation of work in factories, which he believed was dull and soul-destroying. The thirty-nine volumes of the Library Edition of his works, published between 1903 and 1912, are themselves a remarkable achievement, in which his books and essays - almost all highly illustrated - are given a biographical and critical context in extended introductory essays and in the 'Minor Ruskiniana' - extracts from letters, articles and reminiscences both by and about Ruskin. This fifth volume contains Volume 3 of Modern Painters.

Introduction; Bibliographical note; Modern painters, Volume III: Preface; Part IV: 1. Of the received opinions touching the 'grand style'; 2. Of realisation; 3. Of the real nature of greatness of style; 4. Of the false ideal: religious; 5. Of the false ideal: profane; 6. Of the true ideal: purist; 7. Of the true ideal: naturalist; 8. Of the true ideal: grotesque; 9. Of finish; 10. Of the use of pictures; 11. Of the novelty of landscape; 12. Of the pathetic fallacy; 13. Of classical landscape; 14. Of mediaeval landscape: the fields; 15. Of mediaeval landscape: the rocks; 16. Of modern landscape; 17. The moral of landscape; 18. Of the teachers of Turner; Appendix; Letters.

This fifth volume of the magisterial Library Edition (1903-1912) of the works of John Ruskin contains Volume 3 of Modern Painters.