The Art of Ruskin and the Spirit of Place

by John Dixon Hunt

Author	: John Dixon Hunt
Publisher	: Reaktion Books
Total Pages	: 287
Release	: 2020-10-14
Genre	: Art
ISBN	: 178914275X

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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.

The Art of Ruskin and the Spirit of Place

by John Dixon Hunt

Author	: John Dixon Hunt
Publisher	: Reaktion Books
Total Pages	: 287
Release	: 2021-01-16
Genre	: Art
ISBN	: 1789142768

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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.

On Art and Life

by John Ruskin

Author	: John Ruskin
Publisher	: Penguin
Total Pages	: 74
Release	: 2005-09-06
Genre	: Philosophy
ISBN	: 1101651148

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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.

Genius Loci

by John Dixon Hunt

Author	: John Dixon Hunt
Publisher	: Reaktion Books
Total Pages	: 213
Release	: 2022-10-24
Genre	: Art
ISBN	: 1789146097

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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.

Ruskin and Modernism

by Giovanni Cianci

Author	: Giovanni Cianci
Publisher	: Springer
Total Pages	: 237
Release	: 2000-12-12
Genre	: Literary Criticism
ISBN	: 1403913609

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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.

The Gardens at Brantwood

by David Ingram

Author	: David Ingram
Publisher	:
Total Pages	: 0
Release	: 2014
Genre	: Historic gardens
ISBN	: 9781843680994

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In 1872 the most famous cultural critic in Britain moved into a dilapidated cottage in the heart of England's Lake District and swapped his pen for a billhook. John Ruskin's arrival in a landscape already steeped in agricultural history began an evolution that led to the extraordinary gardens that grace Brantwood today. In this beautifully illustrated and comprehensive guide, eminent botanist and horticultural expert David Ingram traces the history of the gardens and explores the contribution of successive garden visionaries that have blessed Brantwood from Ruskin to the present day.

Democratising Beauty in Nineteenth-Century Britain

by Lucy Hartley

Author	: Lucy Hartley
Publisher	: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages	: 317
Release	: 2017-08-03
Genre	: Art
ISBN	: 1107184088

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This book examines nineteenth-century interests in beauty, and considers whether these aesthetic pursuits were necessary to British public life.

Traffic

by John Ruskin

Author	: John Ruskin
Publisher	: Penguin UK
Total Pages	: 60
Release	: 2015-02-26
Genre	: Literary Collections
ISBN	: 0141398159

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'You shall have thousands of gold pieces; - thousands of thousands - millions - mountains of gold: where will you keep them?' Two of Ruskin's most powerful essays: 'Traffic' and 'The Roots of Honour' Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. John Ruskin (1819-1900). Ruskin's Unto This Last and Other Writings is available in Penguin Classics.

The Art of Remembering

by Adina L. Ruskin

Author	: Adina L. Ruskin
Publisher	: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Total Pages	: 48
Release	: 1998
Genre	: Drama
ISBN	: 9780822216070

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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.).