Victorian Beauty: Ruskin’s Changing Ideals
Ruskin, and to some extent his followers, is often seen as the great Victorian prophet of beauty. In his early writing he invests beauty with the force of religious truth. In a passage intended for the second volume of Modern Painters (1846), he writes of the power of an Alpine avalanche teaching hi...
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Open Library of Humanities
2023-03-01
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| Online Access: | http://19.bbk.ac.uk/article/id/8727/ |