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Building Ruskin's Italy - Watching Architecture (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Building Ruskin's Italy - Watching Architecture (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Based on extensive fieldwork, and research into John Ruskin's still
little-interpreted archival material, notebooks and drawings (in
the Ruskin Library, Lancaster University, UK and elsewhere),
Stephen Kite offers an unprecedented account of the evolution of
Ruskin's architectural thinking and observation in the context of
Italy where his watching of building achieved its greatest
intensity. Venice naturally figures large in a work that also
examines other key sites including Verona, Lucca, Pisa, Florence,
Milan and Monza; here, the fabrics are vividly read in their
contexts against the rich evidence of Ruskin's diaries, his
pocket-book sketches, architectural worksheets, drawings, and
daguerrotypes (the early form of photography), and the drafts and
published editions of the texts. Kite presents the complex story of
Ruskin's visual thinking in architecture as a narrative of
deepening interpretation and representation, focusing on the
humbler monuments of Italy. He shows how Ruskin's early picturesque
naturalism was transformed by the realisation that to understand
the built realities confronting him in Italy demanded a closer
engagement with the substance of the stones themselves; reflecting
Ruskin's sense of his task as a near-archaeological gleaning and
gathering of remains 'hidden in many a grass grown court, and
silent pathway, and lightless canal'.
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