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Lectures on Art, Delivered Before the University of Oxford in Hilary Term, 1870

by John Ruskin

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For John Ruskin, learning to judge a picture also means learning to judge the purposes of education. These seven Oxford lectures, delivered in Hilary Term in 1870, connect art with religion, morals and practical use before turning to line, light and colour. The inaugural address argues for art teaching within university education and discusses how specialist schools might connect knowledge with daily work.

Skill, beauty and truth become his measures of artistic achievement. Ruskin uses Reynolds to consider how a painter's handling of colour and design serves the likeness of a living person, then gives portraiture priority over imaginative display. A later preface recalls the personal circumstances of the lectures and the teaching institutions he hoped to establish. The collection offers readers a direct account of his educational aims and his standards for looking at paintings.

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John Ruskin

John Ruskin (1819-1900) was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era and an influential social thinker whose ideas on art, labor, and society shaped movements from the Pre-Raphaelites to the welfare state.