Ruskin and Reynolds

This is a complex relationship, principally because Ruskin wholeheartedly supported Reynolds's view of the intellect vs. technique, but at the same time disagreed with Reynolds's promotion of the general over the specific. Reynolds's Discourses provided the intellectual background for the dispute between Ruskin and the critics, occasioning Ruskin's writing of the Preface to the second edition (1844).

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