Fors Clavigera is social criticism/moral philosophy and is in fact
already on our wanted list. At the time it was added, there was no good
transcription.
We don't want any of the art criticism stuff or the science/craft stuff.
That probably cuts out most of his corpus.
Can you put together a more organized proposal of what our collections
might look like given that we do and don't want of them?
On 8/17/22 12:04 PM, Lukas Bystricky wrote:
> 39 volumes is a bit misleading because quite a few of them contain
> either complete books, or poetry or things we don't want at all like
> picture heavy works, stuff that he'd edited but not written, an index,
> bibliography etc.
>
> The major essays collections/lectures are as follows:
> Volume XII:
>
> 1. Lectures on Architecture and Painting
> 2. Reviews, Letters, and Pamphlets on Art
>
> Volume XIII:
>
> 1. The Harbours of England
> 2. Turner's Works at the National Gallery
>
> Volume XIV:
>
> 1. Academy Notes (Notes on painting)
> 2. Letters and Papers on Pictures and Artists
> 3. Notes on Samuel Prout and William Hunt
>
> Volume XV:
>
> 1. The Elements of Drawing
> 2. The Elements of Perspective
> 3. Laws of Fésole: A Familiar Treatise on the Elementary Principles and
> Practice of Drawing and Painting as Determined by the Tuscan Masters
>
> Volume XVI:
>
> 1. A Joy Forever (Originally published as the Political Economy of Art)
> 2. The Two Paths: being Lectures on Art, and Its Application to
> Decoration and Manufacture
>
> Volume XVII:
>
> 1. Unto This Last: Four Essays on the First Principles of Political Economy
> 2. Munera Pulveris: Six Essays on the Elements of Political Economy
> 3. Time and Tide, by Weare and Tyne: Twenty-five Letters to a Working
> Man of Sunderland on the Laws of Work
>
> Volume XVIII:
>
> 1. Sesame and Lilies (Essays on education)
> 2. The Ethics of the Dust: Ten Lectures to Little Housewives on the
> Elements of Crystallisation
> 3. The Crown of Wild Olive: Three Lectures on Work, Traffic and War
>
> Volume XIX:
>
> 1. The Cestus of Aglaia (Art judgment)
> 2. The Queen of the Air: A Study of the Greek Myths of Cloud and Storm
>
> Volume XX:
>
> 1. Lectures on Art
> 2. Aratra Pentelici:Â Six Lectures on the Elements of Sculpture
> 3. Notes on Greek Art and Mythology
>
> Volume XXII:
>
> 1. Lectures on Landscape
> 2. The Eagle's Nest: Ten Lectures on the Relation of Natural Science to Art
> 3. Ariadne Florentina': Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving
>
> Volume XXIII:
>
> 1. Val d'Arno: Ten Lectures on the Tuscan Art
> 2. Mornings in Florence: Simple Studies of Christian Art
> 3. The Aesthetic and Mathematic School of Art in Florence
>
> Volume XXV:
>
> 1. Love's Meinie: Lectures on Greek and English Birds
> 2. Proserpina: Studies of Wayside Flowers
>
> Volume XVI:
>
> 1. Deucalion: Collected Studies of the Lapse of Waves, and Life of Stones
>
> Volume XVII - XXIX:
>
> 1. Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain
>
> Volume XXXI:
>
> 1. Bibliotheca Pastorum (A collection of translations and adaptations)
>
> Volume XXXIII:
>
> 1. The Bible of Amiens
> 2. The Art of England
> 3. The Pleasures of England
>
> Volume XXXIV:
>
> 1. The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century (at first glance it seems
> to be literally a study of clouds)
>
>
> There are of course various letters, pamphlets and the like which we may
> or may not wish to include but I think this gives the general picture.
> The main observation I have is that really, the vast majority of his
> writings were related to art criticism. His works on political economy
> are: Volume XVII, potentially one essay in Volume XVI, and the three
> volumes of /Fors Clavigera/ (according to the editors though /Fors
> Clavigera/ is really a loose collection of letters about a wide variety
> of topics). I don't see any other obvious division, and it would be a
> bit strange/unwieldy to include everything in a single omnibus.
>
> Another observation is that these are almost all quite long. I didn't
> get a page count for all of them, but the ones I looked at were all at
> least 50 pages, and most were in the 150-200 range. (For reference,
> /Unto This Last/ is around 100 pages/30,000 words). In other words, I
> think a lot of the above /could/Â qualify for standalone productions if
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