The two paths : being lectures on art, and its application to decoration and manufacture, delivered in 1858-9

John Ruskin

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• ART
• Decorative arts

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\THE TWO PATHS.THE TWO PATHS
BEING
LECTURES ON ART
AND ITS APPLICATION TO
DECORATION AND MANUFACTURE
DELIVERED IN 1858-9
BY
LL.D.RUSKIN,JOHN
STUDENT OF CHRIST AND HONORARY FELLOWHONORARY CHURCH,
OF CORPUS CHRISTI OXFORDCOLLEGE,
AN INTRODUCTION BY CHARGES ELIOT NORTON
BKANTWOOD EDITION
NEW YORK :
&MAYNARD, MERRILL, Co., PUBLISHERS,
& EAST TENTH ST.43, 45 47
1893.SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT
MR. GEORGE ALLEN to announce that Ruskin's Worksbegs
CHARLESwill be in America MESSRS.hereafter bypublished
issue theE. MERRILL & New who willCo., York, onlyof
authorized editions.
Copyright 1890
Co.E. MERRILL &CHARLESINTRODUCTION.
areLectures which brought together
in this volume were at dif-delivered,
before audiences differentferent widelyplaces,
in the andin character, years 1857, 1858,
were in the latterpublished1859. They
thread of doctrine unitesA common
year.
is the title chosenwhichthem, bysuggested
of thefor the thevolume, responsibility
"for decisive andstudent choice, conclusive,
of which involvebetween two modes study,
or oftheultimately development, deadening,
he The nature ofevery power possesses."
this choice is in theindicated following
words: is"Wherever art for itspractised
own ofand the the workmansake, delightINTRODUCTION.Vi
instead of indoes oris in what he produces,
or there arthewhat exhibits,interprets
onof the most fatal kindan influencehas
soit ifand andbrain heart, issues, long
both intellectualin the destruction ofpursued,
whereas de-moral art,bower and ;principle
ofand recordclear statementto thevoted
isthefacts of universe, always helpfulthe
beneficent"and (p. 16).
andthe statementas is, vigorousImportant
under variousMr. Ruskin'sas is presentation,
in it seemscontainedof the truth it,
aspects,
for its fullme to understandingto require,
natureof thea clearer definitionand effect,
inArts than isof the Fine anywhere given
Lectures. Onthe course of these 57p.
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