Modern Painters, Volume 3 (of 5) by John Ruskin
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"Modern Painters, Volume 3 (of 5)" by John Ruskin is a critical work published in 1854. This volume forms part of Ruskin's ambitious defense of contemporary landscape painters, particularly J.M.W. Turner, arguing their superiority over the old masters. Here Ruskin coins the influential term "pathetic fallacy" to describe the attribution of human emotion to nature. The work explores how art should document nature's truth, distinguishing between surface observation and deeper insight into
natural forces—a distinction that would profoundly influence the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and Victorian aesthetic thought. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 |
|---|---|
| Title | Modern Painters, Volume 3 (of 5) |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Painters |
| Credits |
Produced by Juliet Sutherland, RSPIII and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 51.0 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | ND: Fine Arts: Painting |
| Subject | Aesthetics |
| Subject | Painting |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 38923 |
| Release Date | Feb 18, 2012 |
| Last Update | Jan 25, 2021 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 1105 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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