The great Victorian critic of art and society, John Ruskin did much to popularize high art and bring it to the masses. A brilliant theorist and practical critic of realism, he also produced the finest nineteenth-century discussions of fantasy, the grotesque, and pictorial symbolism. George Landow offers a new approach to Ruskin which presents him as an interpreter not only of paintings, poems, and buildings, but also of social issues such as the discontent of the working classes.
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The great Victorian critic of art and society, John Ruskin did much to popularize high art and bring it to the masses. A brilliant theorist and practical critic of realism, he also produced the finest nineteenth-century discussions of fantasy, the grotesque, and pictorial symbolism. George Landow offers a new approach to Ruskin which presents him as an interpreter not only of paintings, poems, and buildings, but also of social issues such as the discontent of the working classes.
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