The Art of Ruskin and the Spirit of Place

2020-10-14
The Art of Ruskin and the Spirit of Place

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  • Author: John Dixon Hunt
  • Publisher: Reaktion Books
  • ISBN: 178914275X
  • Category : Art
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 287

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

2021-01-16
The Art of Ruskin and the Spirit of Place

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  • Author: John Dixon Hunt
  • Publisher: Reaktion Books
  • ISBN: 1789142768
  • Category : Art
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 287

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

2005-09-06
On Art and Life

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  • Author: John Ruskin
  • Publisher: Penguin
  • ISBN: 1101651148
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 74

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

2022-10-24
Genius Loci

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  • Author: John Dixon Hunt
  • Publisher: Reaktion Books
  • ISBN: 1789146097
  • Category : Art
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 213

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.

The Gardens at Brantwood

2014
The Gardens at Brantwood

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  • Author: David Ingram
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9781843680994
  • Category : Historic gardens
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 0

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.

The Art of Remembering

1998
The Art of Remembering

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  • Author: Adina L. Ruskin
  • Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
  • ISBN: 9780822216070
  • Category : Drama
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 48

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.).

Democratising Beauty in Nineteenth-Century Britain

2017-08-03
Democratising Beauty in Nineteenth-Century Britain

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  • Author: Lucy Hartley
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 1107184088
  • Category : Art
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 317

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

Oscar Wilde in Context

2013-12-12
Oscar Wilde in Context

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  • Author: Kerry Powell
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 1107016134
  • Category : Drama
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 437

Concise and illuminating articles explore Oscar Wilde's life and work in the context of the turbulent landscape of his time.

Traffic

2015-02-26
Traffic

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  • Author: John Ruskin
  • Publisher: Penguin UK
  • ISBN: 0141398159
  • Category : Literary Collections
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 60

'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.

A Book of Simple Living

2015-03-01
A Book of Simple Living

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  • Author: Ruskin Bond
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9789385288258
  • Category : Nature
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 160