The Art Of Ruskin And The Spirit Of Place

Author : John Dixon Hunt
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781789142754

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The Art of Ruskin and the Spirit of Place by John Dixon Hunt Pdf

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.

Author : Susan Owens
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780500775608

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Spirit of Place: Artists, Writers & The British Landscape by Susan Owens Pdf

Lyrical and compelling, Spirit of Place examines the British landscape as it’s portrayed in literature and art. English landscape painting is often said to be an eighteenth-century invention, yet when we look for representations of the countryside in British art and literature, we find a story that begins with Old English poetry and winds its way through history, all the way up to the present day. In Spirit of Place, Susan Owens illuminates how the British landscape has been framed, reimagined, and reshaped by generations of creative thinkers. To offer a panoramic view of the countryside throughout history, Owens dives into the work of writers and artists from Bede and the Gawain Poet to Thomas Gainsborough, Jane Austen, J. M. W. Turner, and John Constable, and from Paul Nash and Barbara Hepworth to Robert Macfarlane. Richly illustrated, including manuscript pages, early maps, paintings, film stills, and photographs, Spirit of Place is a compelling narrative of how we have been shown the British landscape.

Author : John Dixon Hunt
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781789146097

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Genius Loci by John Dixon Hunt Pdf

From literature to landscape architecture, an expansive, contemplative exploration of the significance of place. For ancient Romans, genius loci was literally “the genius of the place,” the presiding divinity who inhabited a site and gave it meaning. While we are less attuned to divinity today, we still sense that a place has significance. In this book, eminent garden historian John Dixon Hunt explores genius loci in many settings, including contemporary land art, the paintings of Paul and John Nash, travel writers such as Henry James, Paul Theroux, and Lawrence Durrell on Provence, Mexico, and Cyprus, and landscape architects who invent new meanings for a site. This book is a nuanced, thoughtful exploration of how places become more significant to us through the myriad ways we see, talk about, and remember them.

Author : Giovanni Cianci,Peter Nicholls
Publisher : Springer
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2000-12-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781403913609

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Ruskin and Modernism by Giovanni Cianci,Peter Nicholls Pdf

The extent of John Ruskin's influence has long been acknowledged, though his impact on the development of Anglo-American modernism has received little systematic attention. In this volume, published to mark the centenary of Ruskin's death, a group of international scholars consider what is often an awkward and conflicted relation. Ruskin's voluminous writings are seen to shelter an incipient modernism whose antipathy to a degraded modernity, powerfully predicts a major current within the work of the new century.

Author : Susan Owens
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780500775592

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Spirit of Place by Susan Owens Pdf

Shortlisted for the Apollo Awards Book of the Year 2020 When we look at the landscape, what do we see? Do we experience the view over a valley or dappled sunlight on a path in the same way as those who were there before us? We have altered the countryside in innumerable ways over the last thousand years, and never more so than in the last hundred. How are these changes reflected in and affected by art and literature? English landscape painting is often said to be an 18th-century invention. But when we look for representations of the countryside in British art and literature, we find a story that begins with Old English poetry and treads a winding path up to the present day. Spirit of Place offers a panoramic view of the British landscape as seen through the eyes of writers and artists from Bede and the Gawain-poet to Gainsborough, Austen, Turner and Constable; from Paul Nash and Barbara Hepworth to Robert Macfarlane. Guided by these distinctive voices and imagery, and with a sharp eye for an anecdote, Susan Owens elucidates how the British landscape has been framed, reimagined and reshaped by generations. Each account, whether limned in a psalter, jotted down in a journal or constructed from sticks and stones, holds up a mirror to its maker and their world.

Author : John Ruskin
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2005-09-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781101651148

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On Art and Life by John Ruskin Pdf

Includes two of John Ruskin's famous essays: "The Nature of the Gothic" and "The Work of Iron" from his book The Stones of Venice. Ruskin's insights into the need for individual artistic freedom, and his disdain for the mass-production art of the Victorian era, radically altered society's perception of creative design and remain powerfully relevant to our ideas of beauty today.

Author : John Ruskin
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : Art
ISBN : EAN:8596547366775

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Selections From the Works of John Ruskin by John Ruskin Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Selections From the Works of John Ruskin" by John Ruskin. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Adina L. Ruskin
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0822216078

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The Art of Remembering by Adina L. Ruskin Pdf

Four Stars, Pick of the Day...Marcel Proust bit into a biscuit and his memory took off for several volumes...THE ART OF REMEMBERING has a cast of three and some mimed relics and remembered addresses, but they speak volumes in under an hour...inspiringly creative. It is certainly guaranteed to heal any misgivings you may have about the endurance of the human spirit. -The Scotsman. Three women, each with a suitcase, unpack the memorabilia of their life experience, letting loose memories of people and places and events in evocative fragments reaching back over the century. In Adina L. Ruskin's cinematic-style collage play, cleverly composed...the memories are momentarily held before us, then dissolve as others take their place. The careful blend of poignancy and lively humour add to its special appeal. -The Stage (U.K.).

Author : John Ruskin,Frederick William Roe
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780486497099

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Selections and Essays by John Ruskin,Frederick William Roe Pdf

A leading art patron, lecturer, and author of the Victorian era, John Ruskin was also one of the period's foremost art and social critics. This anthology features excerpts from some of his best-known books, including Modern Painters and The Stones of Venice, on the subjects he held most dear: nature, art, and society.

Author : Nick Ceramella,Daniele Marzeddu
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-14
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781527589841

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Insights into D.H. Lawrence's Sardinia by Nick Ceramella,Daniele Marzeddu Pdf

The volume offers a wide horizon on D. H. Lawrence’s search for an ideal primitive society in a pristine natural environment. It lends itself to an interesting comparison with today’s reality, with a particular focus on Sardinia. It combines literature and photography in order to analyse Sicilian and Sardinian society. The volume investigates aspects which have hardly been considered in depth in previous publications on Lawrence’s Sea and Sardinia, such as the strongly stressed ecological approach that makes Lawrence an incredible writer of our time, the role of Sardinian women as opposed to that of men as seen by Lawrence, and the importance of food and traditional costumes as persistent symbols of local identity.

Author : Robert Hewison
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351788335

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Ruskin's Artists by Robert Hewison Pdf

This was first published in 2000: A study of John Ruskin's engagement with art and architecture as a critic, a patron and a teacher. It offers insights into both his writings and the visual economy of the Victorian world. Each essay examines Ruskin's relationship with an individual artist or a distinct aspect of art practice. J.M.W. Turner, D.G. Rossetti, W. Holman Hunt and E. Burne-Jones are among those artists discussed whose personal relationships with Ruskin affected his critical writing. Ruskin's attitude to women artists and his approach to the teaching of art are given special attention.

Author : Rebecca Hutcheon
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527571419

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George Gissing and the Place of Realism by Rebecca Hutcheon Pdf

This collection explores Gissing’s place in the narrative of fin-de-siècle literature. Together, chapters here theorise how late-Victorian spatial and generic norms are confronted, explored and performed in Gissing’s works. In addition to presenting new readings of the major novels and introducing readers to lesser-known works, the collection advocates Gissing’s importance as a journalist, short story, and travel writer. It also recognises Gissing as a central proponent in the late-Victorian realism debate. The book, like today’s nineteenth-century studies, is interdisciplinary. It includes familiar interpretive approaches—biographical, historicist, and comparative—together with fresh perspectives informed by ecocriticism, materiality, and cultural performance. In addition, it is markedly comparative in scope. Gissing is read alongside familiar authors like Dickens, Ruskin, and Hardy, but also, and more unusually, Nietzsche, Besant, Freud and Foucault. Collectively, these chapters illustrate that Gissing, though attentive to contemporary issues, is neither uncomplicatedly realist nor are his writings uncomplicated historical records of place.

Author : Victor Shea,William Whitla
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 1008 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118329023

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Victorian Literature by Victor Shea,William Whitla Pdf

Victorian Literature is a comprehensive and fully annotated anthology with a flexible design that allows teachers and students to pursue traditional or innovative lines of inquiry – from the canon to its extensions and its contexts. Represents the period’s major writers of prose, poetry, drama, and more, including Tennyson, Arnold, the Brownings, Carlyle, Ruskin, the Rossettis, Wilde, Eliot, and the Brontës Promotes an ideologically and culturally varied view of Victorian society with the inclusion of women, working-class, colonial, and gay and lesbian writers Incorporates recent scholarship with 5 contextual sections and innovative sub-sections on topics like environmentalism and animal rights; mass literacy and mass media; sex and sexuality; melodrama and comedy; the Irish question; ruling India and the Indian Mutiny and innovations in print culture Emphasizes the interdisciplinary nature of the field with a focus on social, cultural, artistic, and historical factors Includes a fully annotated companion website for teachers and students offering expanded context sections, additional readings from key writers, appendices, and an extensive bibliography

Author : John Ruskin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1012 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1905
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015032853775

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The Complete Works of John Ruskin by John Ruskin Pdf

Author : T. J. Jackson Lears
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1994-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226469706

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No Place of Grace by T. J. Jackson Lears Pdf

T. J. Jackson Lears draws on a wealth of primary sources — sermons, diaries, letters — as well as novels, poems, and essays to explore the origins of turn-of-the-century American antimodernism. He examines the retreat to the exotic, the pursuit of intense physical or spiritual experiences, and the search for cultural self-sufficiency through the Arts and Crafts movement. Lears argues that their antimodern impulse, more pervasive than historians have supposed, was not "simple escapism," but reveals some enduring and recurring tensions in American culture. "It's an understatement to call No Place of Grace a brilliant book. . . . It's the first clear sign I've seen that my generation, after marching through the '60s and jogging through the '70s might be pausing to examine what we've learned, and to teach it."—Walter Kendrick, Village Voice "One can justly make the claim that No Place of Grace restores and reinterprets a crucial part of American history. Lears's method is impeccable."—Ann Douglas, The Nation