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Kite, Stephen

 
9781409437963: Building Ruskin’s Italy: Watching Architecture
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ISBN 10: 1409437965 ISBN 13: 9781409437963
Editorial: Routledge, 2012

Sinopsis

Based on extensive fieldwork, and research into John Ruskin’s still little-interpreted archival material, notebooks and drawings (in the Ruskin Library, Lancaster University, UK and elsewhere), Stephen Kite offers an unprecedented account of the evolution of Ruskin’s architectural thinking and observation in the context of Italy where his watching of building achieved its greatest intensity. Kite presents the complex story of Ruskin’s visual thinking in architecture as a narrative of deepening interpretation and representation, focusing on the humbler monuments of Italy. He shows how Ruskin’s early picturesque naturalism was transformed by the realisation that to understand the built realities confronting him in Italy demanded a closer engagement with the substance of the stones themselves; reflecting Ruskin’s sense of his task as a near-archaeological gleaning and gathering of remains ’hidden in many a grass grown court, and silent pathway, and lightless canal’.

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Stephen Kite is Professor at the Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University, UK.

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Editorial
Routledge
Año de publicación
2012
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ISBN 10 
1409437965
ISBN 13 
9781409437963
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Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
232
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