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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.

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• Preface(p. 7)
• 1 The Paragone of Drawing and Writing(p. 13)
• 2 Ruskin's Picturesque(p. 47)
• 3 Geology, Mineralogy, Mountains(p. 81)
• 4 Water, Rivers, Meteorology(p. 127)
• 5 Places and Genius Loci(p. 147)
• 6 Venice(p. 181)
• 7 Drawing, Learning and Teaching(p. 229)
• 8 An Iconography and Geography of Ruskin's Imagination(p. 261)
• Abbreviations and References(p. 271)
• Further Reading(p. 280)
• Acknowledgements(p. 281)
• Photo Acknowledgements(p. 282)
• Index(p. 291)

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CHOICE Review

Ruskin (1819--1900) embodied the Victorian intellectual. He wrote about art, nature, architecture, science, and economics. His Modern Painters (5v, 1843--60) is a landmark contribution to art history and criticism. But Ruskin was also a remarkable artist himself. Hunt (Univ. of Pennsylvania) provides a rich exploration of 150 sketches and drawings by Ruskin, drawings of rolling hills, mountains, water formations, and architectural details. Ruskin was clearly a master of perspective, atmospheric science, shadow and effect, movement, line and curve. But beyond formal convention, he used his imagination to capture the mystery and local charm of the places he visited --a broken brick, a cliffy terrain, a narrow ravine, the glitter of a geological formation, a distressed wall, an ancient ruin--re-creating how he experienced it in his mind. Ruskin wanted the viewer to walk through a painting, to feel the uneven terrain, the curve of a path, the ascent of a hill, the wind and the rain. This book on Ruskin's art is a good companion to Andrew Ballantyne's John Ruskin (CH, Apr'16, 53-3351), which provides a rich biography of Ruskin. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. --Rachel Marie Cooke, Florida Gulf Coast University

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John Dixon Hunt is professor emeritus of the history and theory of landscape at the University of Pennsylvania. His previous books include The Wider Sea: A Life of John Ruskin and The Making of Place , the latter also published by Reaktion Books.