Modern Painters, Volume 2 (of 5)

John Ruskin

• Essays
• Book language: English
• 237 pages

The second volume of John Ruskin's five-volume essay series on art and aesthetics. It explores ideas of beauty, the theoretic faculty, imagination, and truth in painting, with reference to landscape art and Turner. Worth listening for Ruskin's reflective prose and his detailed art criticism.

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