Modern Painters, Volume 1 (of 5)

John Ruskin

• Essays
• Book language: English
• 479 pages

Modern Painters, Volume 1 is the opening part of John Ruskin’s five-volume essay collection on art and landscape painting. Defending contemporary landscape artists, especially J. M. W. Turner, it urges close observation of nature and truth in art. Its vivid critical prose and reflections on seeing make it rewarding.

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