The Art of Ruskin and the Spirit of Place
- ISBN-10
- 178914275X
- ISBN-13
- 9781789142754
- Category
- Art
- Pages
- 288
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2020-10-14
- Publisher
- Reaktion Books
- Author
- John Dixon Hunt
Description
English art critic John Ruskin was one of the great visionaries of his time, and his influential books and letters on the power of art challenged the foundations of Victorian life. He loved looking. Sometimes it informed the things he wrote, but often it provided access to the many topographical and cultural topics he explored—rocks, plants, birds, Turner, Venice, the Alps. In The Art of Ruskin and the Spirit of Place, John Dixon Hunt focuses for the first time on what Ruskin drew, rather than wrote, offering a new perspective on Ruskin’s visual imagination. Through analysis of more than 150 drawings and sketches, many reproduced here, he shows how Ruskin’s art shaped his writings, his thoughts, and his sense of place.
Get the book
Similar books
-
Genius Loci: An Essay on the Meanings of Place
By John Dixon HuntNash indeed has been called a neo-Romantic painter, so it is useful to see genius loci from a different, verbal perspective. Turner gave to the sublime a distinct and highly personal sense of place; Romantic poets and their descendants ...
-
Spirit of Place: Artists, Writers & The British Landscape
By Susan OwensWhen, having left Scotland in October without finishing the picture, Millais eventually proposed travelling to Capel Curig in Wales to work from similar rocks, Ruskin strongly objected on the grounds that their geological formation was ...
-
Ruskin and Modernism
By Peter Nicholls, Giovanni Cianci'Lune de Miel' shares Hulme's fascination with past geometric archaic arts with its combination of absolute values, historical memory and severe, ascetic forms. The following excerpt from Hulme's discussion of early geometric arts ...
-
Selections and Essays
By John RuskinSelections and Essays
-
On Art and Life
By John RuskinPENGUIN BOOKS Published bythe PenguinGroup Penguin Group (USA)Inc., 375 Hudson Street,New York, New York10014, U.S.A. Penguin Group (Canada), 90 Eglinton Avenue East, Suite700, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4P 2Y3 (a division of Pearson ...
-
Spirit of Place: Artists, Writers and the British Landscape
By Susan OwensShortlisted for the Apollo Awards Book of the Year 2020 When we look at the landscape, what do we see?
-
The Works of John Ruskin
By John RuskinThis fourteenth volume contains Ruskin's 'Academy Notes' and other writings on painting and painters.
-
Ruskin and the Art of the Beholder
By Elizabeth K. Helsinger"This book seems to give me eyes," wrote Charlotte Brontë of Ruskin's Modern Painters. Elizabeth Helsinger here explores theprofound changes Ruskin induced in theway nineteenth-century viewers looked atnature and at...
-
Modern Painters
By John Ruskin... though his multitudes are somewhat more dramatically and powerfully varied in gesture than Angelico's. In Mino da Fiesole's altar-piece in the church of St. Ambrogiot at Florence, close by Cosimo Rosselli's fresco, there is a 57.
-
Ruskin Today
By John Ruskin, Kenneth ClarkSelections from the writings of the influential British critic cover nature, art, architecture, economics, and social reform, and are accompanied by background information and comments