The Nature of Gothic av John Ruskin

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<p>''One of the very few necessary and inevitable utterances of the century.'' William Morris, in the Preface. <strong><em>The Nature of Gothic</em></strong> started life as a chapter in Ruskin''s masterwork, <em>The Stones of Venice</em>. Ruskin came to lament the ''Frankenstein monsters'' of Victorian buildings with added Gothic which ''The Stones'' inspired; but despite his misgivings the original moral purpose of his writing had not fallen on stony ground. <strong><em>The Nature of Gothic</em></strong>, the last chapter of the second volume, had marked his progression from art critic to social critic; in it he found the true seam of his thought, and it was quickly recognised for the revolutionary writing it was. As Morris himself put it, <strong><em>The Nature of Gothic</em></strong> ''pointed out a new road on which the world should travel''; and in its indictment of meaningless modern labour and its celebration of medieval architecture it could be called the foundation stone of M