Lectures on art. Ryskin J.

John Ryskin (1819–1900) - the famous English historian and theorist of art, poet, publicist, author of works on ethics, aesthetics and natural science, social reformer. In his universal system, art and architecture exist in close connection with morality, religion, human life and, ultimately with nature, and the industrial revolution and capitalization of society are equally destructive to the environment, human souls and the process of creativity.

The history of art in the interpretation of Roskin least of all resembles an academic course, but it was he who was the first professor of elegant arts of the University of Oxford, with his “fulfilled fiery passion and wonderful music”, forcing “deaf... to hear and blind - to see”, If you believe the testimony of his student Oscar Wilde.

Treaty of “Seven Lights of Architecture” (1849) and “Lectures on Art” (1870), which were included in this book, Alpha and Omega, John Roskin, an original and sometimes paradoxical thinker, whose reasoning is fascinated by accuracy Surveying.