Sesam and lilies. Lectures on art

John Ryskin is the creator of contemporary art. Without acquaintance with his works, it is almost impossible to fully understand the entire specificity of world art, because it was Ryskin that laid the foundations of the method of acquaintance with the greatest of the works of painting, literature and nature itself.
With the help of this book, the reader can feel like a listener in the front row of the Oxford lecture hall, on which John Ryskin rises to the tribune.
Here the reader will find the legendary “lectures on art” - the most significant, according to the author, the work in the life of Roskin, in which he outlined a new methodology for analysis of art. In the works of Ryoskin, art is inextricably linked with morality, religion, nature and human life as a whole.
In addition, the reader will find a lecture that have not been published for more than a hundred years in Russian called Sezam and Lilia. In this cycle, Ryskin discusses the golden rules of reading, education and literature, as well as about the arrival of a new humanistic period in history, when the role of an individual in society changes and women and their art come to the fore, showing true values ​​to the whole world.
The book is accompanied by an introductory article by Alexander Markov