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Item Number: 128241
Title: JOHN RUSKIN : Artist and Observer
Author: Shields, Conal (et al)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9781907372575
Description: London: Holberton, 2014. 26cm., pbk., 376pp., 240 color illus. Exhibition held at National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Summary: Accompanying a landmark exhibition at the National Galleries of Canada and Scotland in 2104, this exploration of Ruskin’s watercolours and drawings – representing his entire career and all subject types and degrees of finish and elaboration – will demonstrate how his use of drawing evolved in terms of his most characteristic stylistic traits and how he used the medium in a most distinctive technical manner. It will be shown how he regarded drawing as a means of focusing his eye and as a discipline of observation, and how he attached small significance to the drawing itself when completed. The drawings will be celebrated for their immediacy and verve, for their absence of self-consciousness or artistic indulgence. Drawing was used by Ruskin to express the ecstasy he felt in the presence of transcendent beauty in nature and landscape, as well as in the works of man, and was an essential means of emotional release. On other occasions, and especially during phases of mental fragility, he drew to establish certainties about the physical world upon which he might rely. We know that Ruskin’s drawings must be seen as clues to his emotional state, and may be interpreted in physiological terms, and we intend to reveal them here as profoundly informative about the devestating swings of mood that Ruskin endured and which fired his massive intellectual creativity as well as his eventual descent into insanity.
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