Saturdays, June 8 & 15, 10-11:30am (on Zoom)
This remarkable and lively lecture on the connection between aesthetic taste and values was first delivered to the leading lights of Bradford, a town in the industrial north of England, near Manchester in 1864. Civic leaders had mistakenly asked Ruskin to address them on the subject of architectural plans for the town's Exchange. Instead, he chose to turn the topic of their civic architecture into a trenchant analysis of their divided and dysfunctional culture. The study will be in two sessions: Zach Bullock will lead the first on June 8 and Joseph Rodrigues will lead the second on June 15.
The text of the lecture is on our website, under Resources, The Works of John Ruskin, Volume 18, pp. 433-458, on pdf., and also with this link: https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/media/lancaster-university/content-assets/documents/ruskin/18SesameandLilies.pdf