Evidence: | 'After a period of refreshment A. Rawlings then read a paper on Ruskin as an art critic, in which he gratuituously attacked the literary style of Modern Painters with which the paper chiefly dealt. The style was condemned as quite unsuited to the subject by reason of its verbosity its looseness of expression & inexact terminology. This view met with strong dissent. Extracts were then read from Modern Painters showing the argument of the work which was criticised later'. [the critique is summarised] |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | 6 Apr 1900 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Reading specific address: 1 Cross St |
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Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Alfred Rawlings |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 1855 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | n/a |
Religion: | Quaker or associated with the Friends |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
Members of the XII Book Club |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | John Ruskin |
Title: | Modern Painters |
Genre: | Arts / architecture |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | reading group |
Record ID: | 25460 | |
Source - | Manuscript | |
Author: | Alfred Rawlings | |
Title: | XII Book Club Minute Book, Vol. 1 (1895-1915) | |
Location: | Private Collection | |
Call no: | n/a | |
Page/folio: | 48 |
Citation: | Alfred Rawlings, XII Book Club Minute Book, Vol. 1 (1895-1915) Private Collection, p. n/a, p. 48, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=25460, accessed: 18 April 2024 |
Material by kind permission of the XII Book Club. For further information and permission to quote this source, contact the Reading Experience Database (http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/contacts.php). I assume Rawlings read out the extracts his essay was based on |
Reading Experience Database version 2.0. Page updated: 27th Apr 2016 3:15pm (GMT)