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Atmospheres of Liberty: Ruskin in the Clouds
- Author(s):
- Daniel Williams (see profile)
- Date:
- 2015
- Group(s):
- LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English
- Subject(s):
- Art--Environmental aspects, Political science, Liberty, Art and science
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- John Ruskin, Turner, clouds, liberty, social form, Victorian culture, Art and environment, Political theory, Freedom, Science and art
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/pmm5-9j95
- Abstract:
- John Ruskin’s cloud aesthetics develop a coherent, if figurative, inquiry into the nature of human liberty. His changing accounts of cloud formations across Modern Painters gradually place more emphasis on liberty within a framework of restraint and self-government. Attending to the shifting and equivocal senses of liberty in Ruskin’s aesthetic writings clarifies his scattered, often incompatible assertions in a range of later social and political tracts. Bridging aesthetic criticism with political writings uneasily poised between liberalism, republicanism, and authoritarian conservatism, this article discovers Ruskin as the theorist of a dynamic, aesthetic model of liberty and just social arrangements.
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- Published as:
- Journal article
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 3 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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