A Joy For Ever (and Its Price in the Market)Ruskin, John
Philosophy
A Joy For Ever (and Its Price in the Market)
Ruskin, John
Art
Art, cheap, its purchase, 40.
" " great art not to be too cheap, and why, 62 _seq._
" demand for good, and the possibility of having too much, 38.
" dress, beauty of, essential to good art, 54.
" education in (author's paper on), 153 _seq._
" function of, to exalt as well as to please, 38.
" -gift and art-study, 172.
" good, to be lasting in its materials and power, 39.
" " to be done for and be worthy of all time, 46.
" great, the expression of a great soul, 136.
" has laws, which must be recognised, 157.
" -intellect in a nation, cannot be created, 20-1.
" its debt to Italy, 82.
" labour and, 19.
" " the labour to be various, easy, permanent, 31 _seq._
" literature and, the cost of, 67.
" love of old, essential to produce new, 88.
" materials of, to be lasting, 39, 42.
" models in art schools, 162-4.
" modern interest in, 168.
" " " objects of, and old pictures, 86.
" original work, the best to buy, 41.
" permanency of--e.g., a painted window, 37.
" -power a gift, 158.
" " in a nation, how to produce, 132.
" " waste of, on perishable things, 45.
" preservation of works of, 73-4.
" " (1857) more important than production, 92.
" price of good, 41. See s. Pictures.
" progress in, tested by increased imagination, 167.
" public to demand noble subjects of, 29.
" " effect of public demand on, 165.
" repetition in, monotonous, 32.
" schools, trial, 22-3.
" " provincial, to have good art-models, 169.
" students, 153 seq.
" -study will not "pay," 174.
" test of good, will it please a century hence? 39.
" value of, depends on artist's capacity, not education, 136.
" variety of work, 32.
" work, hard, needed for, 158.
" works of, illustrate each other, 63.
" works of, property in, 147.
" " provincial distribution of, 169.
" " their conservative effect, 132 _n._
" " to be lasting, 36.
See s. Admiration, America, Architecture, Arethusa,
Arete, Artist, Beauty, Buildings, Cheapness, Colour,
Criticism, Design, Diletto, Drawing, Dress, Education,
Europe, Florence, France, Genius, Glass, Gold, Goldsmiths,
Historical painting, Indian shawls, Italy, Jewels, Labour,
Lace, Lombard, Marble, Mosaic, Painter, Philosophy, Pictures,
Reverence, Schools, Trade, Wall-paper, War, Water colour, Wealth, Woodcuts.
Artist, education of the, to be a gentleman--_i.e._, feel nobly, 28.
" encouragement of, in youth, 23.
" goldsmith's work, good training for, 46.
" greatest, have other powers than their art, 21.
" jealousy among, 98.
" modern training of, 132.
" _nascitur non fit_, 20.
" temper of, what, 132.
" to be a good man, 28.
" trial schools to discover, 22-3.
See s. Duerer, Francia, Gainsborough, Ghiberti,
Ghirlandajo, Giotto, Leonardo, Lewis, Lorenzetti,
Michael Angelo, Rembrandt, Reynolds, Tintoret, Titian,
Turner, Veronese, Verrocchio.
"Asphodel meadows of our youth," 26.
Athletic games and education, 128.
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