TY - BOOK AU - Puskin,John TI - On art and life T2 - Great ideas ; SN - 014101895X U1 - 700 22 PY - 2004/// CY - London : PB - Penguin, KW - Art criticism N2 - Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization, and helped make us who we are. John Ruskin's insights into the need for individual artistic freeedom, 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 ER -