Book, George Routledge, Modern painters, 19

Physical description

Ill, p.372.

Publication type

non-fiction

Summary

Ruskin argues that recent painters emerging from the tradition of the picturesque are superior in the art of landscape to the old masters. The book was primarily written as a defense of the later work of J. M. W. Turner. Ruskin used the book to argue that art should devote itself to the accurate documentation of nature

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