Elected the first Slade Professor of Fine Art at Oxford, Ruskin opened his course with these lectures. He argues that art is bound up with a nation’s religion, morals and usefulness, then turns to the practical matters of line, light and colour, urging students to take pains and recover delight in skill. A preface of 1887 looks back on them fondly.
Ruskin at the height of his powers, essential reading on Victorian ideas of art and society. Download the free EPUB.