Lectures on Art

by Washington Allston

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Genres: Art, Nonfiction, 19th Century

102 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1870

About the author

Romantic works, such as Elijah in the Desert, of American painter Washington Allston often depict religious subjects.

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Reviews

[AiK · Rating 3 out of 5]

Некоторые суждения имеют явный колониальный оттенок, либо превознесение английской культуры. Довольно интересна классификация школ.

[Kateryna Hora · Rating 3 out of 5]

Basically a compilation of lectures for visual art students with a few contemplations on the role of art for morale and religion. If the latter was a rather shallow Plato copywriting, the former was very interesting. Ruskin discussed the importance of lines, shadow and colors and analyzed the works of (own categorized) Greek school of light and Gothic school of color. The whole idea was that art representation should be as loyal to the object as possible (which I don’t really agree with), but the observations on the importance of mass and lines for this agenda was very precise and interesting. Also there’s a theme of British supremacy and invocatory colonialism that runs like a thread (imo without a just need) through the whole text, makes it super hard to get past.

[Elizabeth (Alaska) · Rating 3 out of 5]

Another preliminary read for In Search of Lost Time. It is said that Proust based his writer Bergotte on John Ruskin. I expect to see Ruskin rhythm and phraseology when I get to Proust.

[Daria · Rating 3 out of 5]

Не информативно

[Tech Nossomy · Rating 2 out of 5]

A series of lectures given by the famous art historian and art teacher John Ruskin.
Textually hard to get used to the endless flow of far-fetched metaphors, platitudes and simplistic symbology. Many sentences do not make sense at all. Mr Ruskin speaks from a pedestal, authoritatively, not on art in general, but art specifically produced in Victorian England, as well as preferentially by artists he is personally acquainted with. And of course lavish praise in the obligatory references for the arts from Greek / Roman antiquity throughout.

For historical purposes only.

Available on Project Gutenberg.

[Thing Two · Rating 3 out of 5]

John Ruskin was a 19th century art critic who lectured at Oxford University on a variety of topics - art being one. Ruskin offers his opinions on art in relation to religion, morals, and the world around us. I am not an artist, so I'm sure I missed the significance of a majority of his talk, but parts of it were interesting to me.

[Cameron · Rating 3 out of 5]

A handful of lectures concerning the relation of art to religion, morality and technical instruction like line, color and light. A pleasant read and low-barrier entry point to the overwhelming Ruskin canon of modern art criticism.

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[Vija Neprosta · Rating 5 out of 5]

цікава книга, взяла її спеціально для того щоб трохи дізнатись про мистецтво, щоб мати загальне принаймні уявлення. сподобалась мова викладу. багато інформації почерпнула, бо рідко звертала увагу на ті чи інші речі в архітектурі