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An Instinct to Draw - John Ruskin's Drawings in the Ashmolean Museum (Paperback)
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An Instinct to Draw - John Ruskin's Drawings in the Ashmolean Museum (Paperback)
Series: Ashmolean Highlights
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Discovery Miles 5 330
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John Ruskin assembled 1470 diverse works of art for use in the
Drawing School he founded at Oxford in 1871. They included drawings
by himself and other artists, prints and photographs. This book
focuses on highlights of works produced by Ruskin himself. Drawings
by John Ruskin are uniquely interesting. Unlike those of a
professional artist they were not made in preparation for finished
paintings or as works in their own right. Every one - and they
number several thousand, depending on what can be considered a
separate drawing - is a record of something seen, initially as a
memorandum of that observation but with the potential to illustrate
his writings or for educational purposes, notably to form part of
the teaching collection of the Drawing School he established after
election as Slade Professor of Fine Art at Oxford University. In
addition, because of the range of interests of arguably the only
true polymath of his time, every drawing touches on some
interesting aspect of art and architecture, landscape and travel,
botany and natural history, often connected with his writings and
lectures. Ruskin's life is one of the best documented of any in the
19th century, through letters, diaries and the many
autobiographical revelations in his published writings: this allows
the opportunity to give almost any drawing a level of context
impossible for any other artist. When there is so much background
information, a single drawing reveals much about its creator, and
becomes a window into the great sprawling edifice of his life and
work.
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