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On Art and Life, September 2005
Paperback (reprint)

ON ART AND LIFE
By: John Ruskin

Ruskin's treatise on the need for individual artistic freedom remains powerfully relevant to our ideas of beauty today.

Great Ideas
Penguin
September 2005
128 pages
ISBN: 0143036289
Paperback (reprint)
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John Ruskin's insights into the need for individual artistic freedom, and his disdain for the mass-production art of the Victorian era, radically altered society's perception of creative design and remain powerfully relevant to our ideas of beauty today.

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