Isabelle Enaud-Lechien et Joëlle Prungnaud (dir.), Postérité de John Ruskin by Isabelle Cases

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‘Modern gardeners’ with Rustic Ideals: Fruitful Congruencies between John Ruskin and William Robinson by Aurélien Wasilewski

“…He greatly admired John Ruskin and made his the latter’s ‘definition of the vegetable kingdom [which] is quite different from the definition of botanists generally, but perhaps not on that account less true. …”
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Repenser le patrimoine, hier et aujourd’hui. Le génie de John Ruskin by Jérôme Bastianelli

“…In his contribution Jérôme Bastianelli traces the history of the construction of the Crystal Palace and offers a stimulating parallel between John Ruskin’s view of the preservation of national heritage as exposed in his pamphlet written at the time of the inauguration of the building in 1854 and contemporary cultural heritage policies conducted in England and in France. …”
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John Ruskin, William Morris and Walter Pater: From Nature to Musical Harmony in the Decorative Arts by Martine Lambert-Charbonnier

“…John Ruskin’s claim that what is essential in all art is to fashion by hand what the eye sees clearly, blurred the divide between the fine arts and the decorative arts. …”
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Marcel Proust. Préface, traduction et notes à La Bible d’Amiens de John Ruskin by Bénédicte Coste

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‘Why is it that a photograph always looks clear and sharp, — not at all like a Turner?’ John Ruskin & Perceptual Aberration by Lawrence Gasquet

“…The presence of the camera becomes prominent among scientific and artistic discourses of the 19th century; it is also fundamental to John Ruskin’s aesthetic theory, as a close study of several of his writings shows. …”
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Se souvenir du tribun et de l’apôtre. John Ruskin par son traducteur Émile Cammaerts (1878-1953) by Julie Lageyre

“…Cammaerts searched for a balance between the correct transposition of John Ruskin’s writings and the required adjustments for a Francophone audience. …”
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« Between the heaven and man came the cloud » : John Ruskin et la représentation des états de la matière dans Modern Painters by Lawrence Gasquet

“…The works of John Ruskin attempt to define the beauty of nature, so that man may be able to recreate it, to reprocess it through art and then access truth. …”
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Le texte comme simple émanation d’un contexte : étude du manifeste fondateur de la Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings by Jean-Claude Mougnibas

“…The paradox is the fact that far from being an innovative statement of principles, the manifesto disappointingly reads like a re-writing of some of John Ruskin’s best-known passages. The redeeming feature is the seminal role played by the text. …”
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Voir l’espace et dire le temps : le grand écart du discours esthétique victorien by Laurent Bury

“…While Henry James was offended by the “historicizing” reading of art works, John Ruskin usually wanted to find what came before and after the scene represented by the artist. …”
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De l’unité des arts comme résistance : The Claims of Decorative Art de Walter Crane by Isabelle Cases

“…Strongly influenced by John Ruskin and William Morris, Walter Crane developed the idea of the unity of art as an essential condition for a rewarding artistic production and a satisfactory social life. …”
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Gandhi y la economía según Ruskin by Juan María Parent Jacquemin

“…Gandhi considera a su modo estos planteamientos de John Ruskin y los lleva más lejos. El ser humano se realiza en el trabajo, más aun, Dios ha creado al ser humano para el trabajo.…”
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Reading the Colours of Victorian Interiors: The Poetic Home Revisited by Charlotte Ribeyrol

“…As a consequence, the ‘evolution’ of the colour-sense received unprecedented attention, not only from the scientists who made colour production and colour perception their new object of study, but also from artists and writers like John Ruskin or William Morris who placed colour at the centre of the creative process. …”
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Ambivalent and Contradictory: Victorian Architects’ Responses to Technology by Richard W. Hayes

“…Both Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin and John Ruskin saw architecture as the optimal site from which to mount vigorous critiques of the modern world as they idealized the Middle Ages in order to denounce the social ills concomitant with industrialism. …”
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Whistler et l’esthétisme avant l’ouverture de laGrosvenor Gallery by Isabelle Énaud-Lechien

“…Si l’on s’accorde à penser que l’ouverture de la Grosvenor Gallery en 1877 marque une date essentielle de l’affirmation du courant esthétique, la participation de James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) à cette exposition inaugurale pointe également un moment-clé de sa carrière, déjà étudié, en particulier au regard du procès qui s’ensuivit opposant le peintre d’origine américaine au grand critique d’art victorien John Ruskin (1819-1900). Aussi chercherons-nous ici établir ce qui, avant même cette date, motive à associer l’artiste à l’Esthétisme, en particulier dans les journaux caricaturaux. …”
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Ryuzo Mikimoto and the Ruskin ‘Relics’ Exhibitions of 1926, 1931 and 1933 by Haruka Miki

“…Attracting about 2,000 visitors, it was the first exhibition in Japan of the nineteenth-century British art critic and social reformer John Ruskin. The exhibits included the first editions of The Seven Lamps of Architecture and The Stones of Venice, the Pre-Raphaelite journal The Germ, and Ruskin’s autograph manuscripts, drawings, photographs and letters Ryuzo collected in Britain in the 1920s, amounting to nearly 150 pieces in all. …”
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The Coronation of the Virgin: Alice Meynell’s Typological Critique of Modern Bodies by Ashley Faulkner

“…Scholars like Francis O’Gorman have shown in recent years that late nineteenth-century cultural criticism, like that of John Ruskin and others, used religious rhetoric strategically to critique the increasing authority of normative, positivistic narratives of human development. …”
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In Sight of Mont Blanc: an Approach to Ruskin’s Perception of the Mountain by Laurence Roussillon-Constanty

“…Dans sa biographie, Praeterita, John Ruskin décrit son premier aperçu des Alpes comme "not only the revelation of the beauty of the earth, but the opening of the first page of its volume" (XXXV. 116), établissant d’emblée un lien entre expérience et écriture, appréhension physique et méditation poétique, spectacle naturel et interprétation symbolique. …”
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E. W. Godwin’s Month in Normandy: Travel Writing as Intertext by Richard W. Hayes

“…In line with his restricted focus on architectural themes, Godwin’s trip was to a large extent une répétition différente of the journey to Normandy taken by John Ruskin (1819‒1900) in 1848. Ruskin travelled throughout Normandy soon after his marriage to Euphemia Gray, visiting Boulogne, Abbeville, Rouen, Falaise, Avranches, Mont-Saint-Michel, Bayeux, Caen, and Honfleur, before arriving in Paris. …”
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