Modern Painters by John Ruskin

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John Ruskin - 2005 - Art - 380 頁
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Modern Painters (1843) is book on art by John Ruskin which 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 defence 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. In Ruskin's view Turner had developed from early detailed documentation of nature to a later more profound insight into natural forces and atmospheric effects.

Ruskin added later volumes in subsequent years. Volume two (1846) placed emphasis on symbolism in art, expressed through nature. The second volume was influential on the early development of Pre-Raphaelitism. Ruskin also added third and fourth volumes in later years.

References

• Mark Jarzombek, "Recognizing Ruskin: "Modern Painters" and the Refractions of Self", Assemblage, No. 32 (Apr., 1997), pp. 70–87

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Long gestation period of Modern Painters I

In the Preface to the first edition of Modern Painters I, Ruskin had to 'apologise for the imperfection of a work which [he] could have wished not to have executed, but with years of reflection and revisal' ( MP I, 1843:xi). The germ from which Modern Painters I was eventually to grow was Ruskin's unpublished letter to Blackwood's (1836). Five years later he mentioned his first plans for 'a work of some labour', but little seems to have come of this intention in terms of actual writing. Ruskin himself was to date his renewed plans for 'Turner's work' as originating on 12 June 1842, in Geneva. The probable period of composition of Modern Painters I is from September 1842 to April 1843 - a period of only eight months, which was interrupted by the Ruskin family's move from Herne Hill to Denmark Hill. (See also daily routine while writing Modern Painters I, method of composition of Modern Painters I, order of composition of Modern Painters I, and Ruskin's defensiveness in the Preface to the first edition of Modern Painters I).

翻譯錯誤多多: 现代画家(共5册) 　

作者: （英）罗斯金（Ruskin.J.） 著，丁才云 等译，孙宜学 等校
译者: 丁才云
出版社: 广西师范大学出版社
出版年: 2005-08-01
页数: 全五册

内容简介 · · · · · ·

　　《现代画家》（1843-1960）是一部杰出的艺术评论作品，它的面世引起了 艺术界、学术界强烈的轰动。本书内容丰富，涵盖从文艺复兴到19世纪的艺术流派、艺术分析、作品欣赏、画法研究、材料研究、地理文化研究、历史与社会文化 分析等多重领域。透过罗斯金所描述的绘画及雕刻等艺术，人们不仅对罗马时期、哥特时期、文艺复兴时期、巴罗克时期以及整个欧洲中世纪时期和近现代绘画艺术 的主要特点有了全面而清晰的了解，而且，也使我们对绘画发展所赖以存在的社会、政治、经济、文化等背景有所洞悉，从而可以更好地把握西方绘画发展的一般规 律，并能同时感受到他不断追求美的历程。本书内容极其广博，而又意境优美，笔触细腻，充满了艺术的色彩和美感，充满着对美的热切和向往，而字里行间所蕴涵 的丰富情感，也处处显露出作者的人文关怀。