Lecturing at Oxford in the Lent term of 1872, John Ruskin asks how the study of nature should serve the artist, and answers that most scientific investigation is useless to the trained master of an art. Through lectures on wisdom and folly, modesty and contentment, and the science of light, he argues for a reverent, seeing eye over dissection and analysis.
Characteristic late Ruskin, provocative and digressive, for readers of art criticism and Victorian thought. Download the free EPUB.