Gill Chitty

Broschiertes Buch

Reading Ruskin's Cultural Heritage

Conservation and Transformation

Beschreibung

John Ruskin's critical commentary on culture and society, transformative in his time, established him as a leading critic of the 19th century. His prescient thinking resonates with today's issues in cultural heritage conservation. This volume presents his ideas in context, extracts from his works and future directions for his foundational ideas.

Autor

Dr. Gill Chitty is former Reader in Conservation Studies and an Honorary Research Associate in the Department of Archaeology, University of York

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 278g
• ISBN-13: 9781032480954
• ISBN-10: 1032480955
• Artikelnr.: 71711407

Rezensionen

A profound commitment to the thoughtful reading of Ruskin texts is found in Gill Chitty's book Reading Ruskin's Cultural Heritage, Conservation and Transformation, with which I have been living delightedly for some weeks. The work contains 'six stimulating essays on Ruskin's readership and reception, his transformative perceptions of heritage futures and provocative writing on cultural landscapes and the arts and crafts'. The substantial readings at the ends of the six chapters have been chosen with exemplary care, and it has been a pleasure to read and re-read them aloud.

- Peter Burman, Guild of St George

Chitty's essays are superb and her extracts from Ruskin constitute an admirably short selection from the vast swathes of his work. There is a great deal of enlightenment to be found here and much thought will be provoked.

- Rob Cowan, Context