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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:
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    Pub. DOI:
    doi: 10.1353/elh.2015.0008
    Publisher:
    Project Muse
    Pub. Date:
    2015-3-15
    Journal:
    ELH
    Volume:
    82
    Issue:
    1
    Page Range:
    141 - 182
    ISSN:
    1080-6547
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    3 years ago
    License:
    All Rights Reserved

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