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“The right fulfilment of national power in art depends always on the direction of its aim by the experience of ages.”
- Date
- 1870
Meaning of “The right fulfilment of national power in art…”
Ruskin treats artistic power as inseparable from the ends toward which skill is directed, making purpose and inherited experience part of his account of creative excellence.
Where does it come from?
Lectures on Art, inaugural lecture, Project Gutenberg #19164. This is Ruskin’s Victorian aesthetic theory about national art, not a measurable law of artistic development.
