ENGB45H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Elizabeth Siddal, Edgar Allen
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Life is imperfect, but that"s what makes us human. Thinking along the same lines as darwin, although ruskin wrote years before natural selection. Travel narrative of the author wanting to show us something. Something that makes us connect on an emotional and aesthetic level of the argument. The question of human labor being the price of beautiful things. De-personification concerns; polemic; accuses reader of participating in slavery. Endearing to separate the two: one man working and one man thinking. Ruskin argues it"s not just economic distinction, but a gentlemen operative. The review of the show for the pre-raphaelite: Charles dickens strongly disliked the art; satirical writer. Why he didn"t like jesus in the house : Jesus" father: joseph shown in a non-ideally way. Where the light is coming from: breaks conventions of realistic portrayal. Signs as the author of modern painters; showing he"s a real critic. Argues that he is not imitating old style paintings.