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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Transcriber's note: A few typographical errors have been corrected. They appear in the text like this, and the explanation will appear when the mouse pointer is moved over the marked passage. Sections in Greek will yield a transliteration when the pointer is moved over them, and words using diacritic characters in the Latin Extended Additional block, which may not display in some fonts or browsers, will display an unaccented version. Original page numbers are displayed in the margin as: [Page xxx]. LANDSCAPE LANDSCAPE FROM A PAINTING BY J. M. W. TURNER Library Edition THE COMPLETE WORKS OF
JOHN RUSKIN MODERN PAINTERS Volume II—OF TRUTH AND THEORETIC FACULTIES Volume III—OF MANY THINGS NATIONAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION NEW YORK CHICAGO MODERN PAINTERS.
VOLUME II., CONTAINING PART III., SECTIONS I. AND II. OF THE IMAGINATIVE AND THEORETIC FACULTIES. SYNOPSIS OF CONTENTS. PART III. OF IDEAS OF BEAUTY. SECTION I. OF THE THEORETIC FACULTY. Chapter I.—Of the Rank and Relations of the Theoretic Faculty. page § 1. With what care the subject is to be approached. 1 § 2. And of what importance considered. 2 § 3. The doubtful force of the term "utility". 3 § 4. Its proper sense. 4 § 5. How falsely applied in these times. 4
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