John Ruskin — Leading Questions (original) (raw)

Modern Painters — "Of Truth of Colour"

• Ruskin on the relation of truth and color, or truth of color
• Ruskin's Colors
• Ruskin on "Of Truth of Colour"
• Ruskin and the Importance of Color in Painting
• The Layers of Ruskin's "On the Truth of Color"
• "He paints in colour, but he thinks in light and shade"
• Ruskin on Limitations of Art and Artist
• Ruskin's True Colors
• Ruskin and Religion: contemplating "the mysteries of God"
• Ruskin on Truth ("Of Truth of Color")
• Dismissing the Ancients, Complimenting the Reader

Modern Painters — "Of Truth of Water"

• The Pen vs. The Paintbrush
• Truth, Beauty, and the Eye of the Beholder
• Ruskin on Truth and Convention
• Ruskin Finds Ignorance and Truth in Water

Modern Painters — Miscellaneous

• "The Modern Critic:" Artistic sage, middleman, or pusher?
• Ruskin and the Ideal
• Reading the Eighteenth Century: Ruskin on Pope
• Ruskin's love of Turner
• Truth and Falsehood in Ruskin's Modern Painters

Seven Lamps of Architecture

• Architecture and Sacrifice (“The Lamp of Sacrifice”)
• The Inherent Falsity of Restoration (“The Lamp of Memory”)
• Art as a Mirror: Ruskin on Contemporary Architecture and Social Change (“The Lamp of Memory”)
• Protecting Sacred Influence: Our Duty to Preserve Our Architectural Legacy
• Authority and Validity in Ruskin's "Lamp of Memory"

The Stones of Venice

• Feminine Venice and her Moral Dilemma: Ruskin’s Venetian Persona in “The Quarry”
• John Ruskin's Indictment of the Renaissance
• Domestic Religion and the Fall of Venice

"Traffic"

• Romantic Apocalypticism in John Ruskin's “Traffic”
• Taking the Audience Aback in “Traffic”
• What do you like?
• Taste, Humanity and Frivolity
• Moral Taste in Ruskin's "Traffic"
• Ruskin's Credibility as Lecturer and Sage
• The Well-Tempered Voices of John Ruskin
• Crafting Rhetoric in Ruskin's "Traffic"
• Worldly Religions
• An Engaging Discourse
• "When the World Turns Clown": Representations of Humanity
• Ruskin & Nature: Sources of Inspiration
• Binary Grouping in "Traffic"
• Ruskin's Characterization of the Inconceivable
• Rusin refuses to give advice . . .
• The effect of Ruskin's aversion to specifics
• Lofty Targets in Ruskin
• Architecture as an Expression of Society's Moral Character
• Ruskin Getting at the Goddess of "Getting-on"
• Ruskin's Pathos in "Traffic"
• The Inseparability of Art, Religion, and Society in Ruskin's "Traffic"
• John Ruskin's conclusion to "Traffic"
• To Act, To Feel
• Architecture as a Reflection of Mood
• Assumptions Ruskin Makes About His Audience in ‘Traffic’”
• Like a Sermon, Hey!: Heaven, Hell, Fire and Brimstone in Traffic
• Ruskin and Colloquialism
• Ruskin and Speechmaking
• Word-painting and the Sage
• Provoking Man Into Real Kinghood
• Ruskin's Rhetorical Turns
• Ruskin's patronizing tone
• Ruskin's structure and validity
• Moral Traffic
• Architecture as the Intersection of Form, Content, and Social Morality
• The Goddess of Getting-on: Ruskin's Commentary Upon British Commerce
• Mills, Mansions, and Lies: A Critical Look at English Society in "Traffic"
• Taste, Morals, and Socialism
• The Surprising Opening of "Traffic"
• The Earth as a Temple in Ruskin's "Traffic"
• Ruskin's Prophetic Condescension
• The Foolishness of Men and the Exploitation of the Poor
• A Tongue-in-cheek Proposal
• Dialogue in Ruskin's "Traffic"
• The Greatest Show on Earth

Unto This Last

• Ruskin’s Definition of a Legal and Just Economics
• Guiding the Reader
• John Ruskin in “Unto This Last”: Teacher or Preacher?
• The Merchant's Autonomy versus the Soldier's Self-Sacrifice: Respecting Different “Intellectual Professions” in Ruskin
• Ruskin's Familiar Tone
• Ruskin’s Persuasive Progression in “Ad Valorem”
• John Ruskin's Unto This Last: Guiding the Reader to Self-evident Truths
• The Twisted Imagery of Ruskin's Political Economy ("The Roots of Honour")
• Pacing Moral Economics ("The Veins of Wealth")
• Does Capitalism Equal Death in Ruskin's "Unto this Last"?
• The human being as covetous machine or selfless saint?
• The Value of Language: Etymological Analysis in "Ad Valorem"
• Everyday People in "The Roots of Honour"
• Does Ruskin ask too much of his Analogies?
• Ruskin's Anticipating Possible Arguments — Potential Pitfall, or Virtuosic Move?
• The Devil Science
• The source and expression Ruskin's discontent
• The Key of Logic in John Ruskin's "The Roots of Honour"
• Could Ruskin's logic possibly (gasp!) be flawed?
• Honour That Doesn't Make Sense
• Ruskin's Moral Theory of Wealth
• Is Ruskin a Socialist?
• Materialism and Morality (in "Ad Valorem")

King of the Golden River

• The Significance of Names in King of the Golden River

Praeterita

• "Devoting me to God" — Ruskin's Tone in "The Springs of Wandel"
• Ruskin: Writing about Himself Writing about Himself

Some Related Information

• Fantasy in Art and Literature
• The literary fairy tale
• Ruskin on the Grotesque
• Ruskin as Victorian sage
• Ruskin as Victorian Sage: The Example of "Traffic" [chapter from New Approaches to Ruskin]
  • Genre and Mode in "Traffic"
• Genre and Style in The Stones of Venice
• Ruskin as satirist
• Ruskin as word-painter

Last modified 18 October 2024