Author: John RuskinPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
The Works of John Ruskin: Deucalion, and other stories in Rocks and stones
Author: John RuskinThe Works of John Ruskin: Deucalion, and other studies in rocks and stones
Author: John RuskinThe Works of John Ruskin: Deucalion, and other studies in rocks and stones
Author: John RuskinPublisher:
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Category : Art critics
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
Volume 1-35, works. Volume 36-37, letters. Volume 38 provides an extensive bibliography of Ruskin's writings and a catalogue of his drawings, with corrections to earlier volumes in George Allen's Library Edition of the Works of John Ruskin. Volume 39, general index.
Deucalion and Other Studies in Rocks and Stones
Author: John RuskinThe Anatomy of Nature
Author: Rebecca BedellPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691268231
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
An illuminating account of the interplay between science, religion, and nature in nineteenth-century landscape painting Geology was in vogue in nineteenth-century America. People crowded lecture halls to hear geologists speak, and parlor mineral cabinets signaled social respectability and intellectual engagement. This was also the heyday of the Hudson River School, and many prominent landscape painters avidly studied geology. Thomas Cole, Asher Durand, Frederic Church, John F. Kensett, William Stanley Haseltine, Thomas Moran, and other artists read scientific texts, participated in geological surveys, and carried rock hammers into the field to collect fossils and mineral specimens. As they crafted their paintings, these artists drew on their geological knowledge to shape new vocabularies of landscape elements resonant with moral, spiritual, and intellectual ideas. Rebecca Bedell contributes to current debates about the relationship among art, science, and religion by exploring this phenomenon. She shows that at a time when many geologists sought to disentangle their science from religion, American artists generally sidestepped the era's more materialist science, particularly Darwinism. They favored a conservative, Christianized geology that promoted scientific study as a way to understand God. Their art was both shaped by and sought to preserve this threatened version of the science. And, through their art, they advanced consequential social developments, including westward expansion, scenic tourism, the emergence of a therapeutic culture, and the creation of a coherent and cohesive national identity. This major study of the Hudson River School offers an unprecedented account of the role of geology in nineteenth-century landscape painting. It yields fresh insights into some of the most influential works of American art and enriches our understanding of the relationship between art and nature, and between science and religion, in the nineteenth century. It will draw a broad audience of art historians, Americanists, historians of science, and readers interested in the American natural landscape.
Deucalion and Other Studies in Rocks and Stones
Author: Deucalion and Other Studies in Rocks and Stones
Author: John RuskinPublisher: Benediction Books
ISBN: 9781849027069
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 728
Book Description
John Ruskin, wrote and lectured on a wide variety of subjects -- Art, Architecture, Economics and Sociology, and the natural world. This volume is a collection of Ruskin's work on Geology and Mineralogy. fully illustrated with 23 full page illustrations and as well ss many drawings within the text.
Book Bulletin
Author: Chicago Public LibraryPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description
Among Our Books
Author: Carnegie Library of PittsburghPublisher:
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 860
Book Description
Visual Culture and Arctic Voyages
Author: Eavan O'DochartaighPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108834337
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Uncovering a wealth of archival information, Eavan O'Dochartaigh gives fresh and surprising insight into the Victorian image of the Arctic.