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
Economy, its true meaning (application: accumulation: distribution), 8 _seq._
" the art of managing labour, 7, 8.
" the balance of splendour and utility, 10.
" does not mean saving money, 8.
" simile of farm life, 11.
" the laws of, same for nation and individual, 12 _seq._
See s. Almsgiving, Author, Capitalist, Charity, Cheating,
Commerce, Currency, Education, Employment, England, Farm,
Gentlemen, Gold, Labour, Land, Luxury, Money, National works,
Panics, Parish relief, Pension, Political Economy, Poor, Poverty,
Property, Trade, Wealth.
Education, best claimed by offering obedience, 16.
" drawing to be part of, 156.
" dress as a means of, 54.
" eye, the best medium of, 106.
" formative, not reformative only, 15.
" in Art, author's paper on, 153 _seq._
" liberty to be controlled by, 128.
" manual trade to be learnt by all youths, 128.
" modern, 135.
" " in England, its bad tendency, 177.
" schools of, to be beautiful, 104-5.
" refinement of habits, a part of, 104.
" waste of, on dead languages, 128.
" young men, their, 134.
Edward I., progress since the days of, 1857 _pref._
Emotion, quickness of, is not capacity for it, 132.
Employment, may be claimed by the obedient, 16.
England, art-treasures in, their number, 5.
" modern, its ugliness, 176.
" the rich men of, their duty, 118-9.
English character, impulse and prudence of, 17.
" " self-dependence, 130.
Envy, vile, 177.
Europe, no great art, except in, 87.
Examinations, their educational aim and value, 136.
Eye, the, nobler than the ear, and a better means of education, 106.
Faith, frescoes of, Ambrozio Lorenzetti, Siena, 57.
" kinds of, 57.
Famine, how it comes, 133.
Fancy, as essential to fine manufacture, 172.
Farm, metaphor of a, applied to national economy, 11.
Fashion, change of, as wasting power of design, 45.
Florence, art and dress of, 54.
" drawing at, 1400-1500, art-models, 169.
Fools, the wise to take of the, 118.
France, art in, great, and beautiful dress, 54.
" English prejudice against, 81.
" social philosophy in, "fraternite" a true principle, 14.
Francia, a goldsmith, 46.
Frescoes, whitewashing of Italian, 85.
Fraternity implies paternity, 14 (cp. Time and Tide, 177).
Funeral, English love of a "decent," 70.
Gainsborough, his want of gentle training, 28.
" learns from Italian art, 82.
Genius, men of, and art, four questions as to (production, employment,
accumulation, distribution), 19.
" " their early struggles, due to their starting on wrong work, 23.
Gentlemen, tradesmen to be accounted, 114.
Ghiberti's gates, M. Angelo on, 46.
" a goldsmith, 46.
Ghirlandajo, a goldsmith, 46.
" M. Angelo's master, 46.
Giotto's frescoes, Assisi, perishing for want of care, 86.
" discovered by Cimabue, 133.
Glass, cut, waste of labour on, 34.
" painted, French 1200-1300, the best, 169.
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