Ruskin was not merely the most important anglophone art critic and social commentator of the late nineteenth century: for his admirers - who included Proust - he was a Tolstoyan figure with the magic of an artist and the moral authority of a sage.
Es gibt viele Bücher über diesen erstaunlichen Künstler, die meist als Feiern seiner kreativen Fülle verfasst sind. Timothy Hilton hat jedoch einen herausfordernden Ansatz gewählt, um Picassos Leistungen und seinen Platz in der Kunst des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts zu definieren.
Surveys the origins, development, techniques, approaches, principles, motifs, and major paintings of the nineteenth-century British school, relating the painters and their works to their society.