Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- INTRODUCTION TO THIS VOLUME
- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
- MODERN PAINTERS VOLUME I
- AUTHOR'S PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION (1843)
- AUTHOR'S PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION (1844)
- AUTHOR'S PREFACE TO THIRD EDITION (1846)
- AUTHOR'S PREFACE TO NEW EDITION (1873)
- AUTHOR'S SYNOPSIS OF CONTENTS
- PART I OF GENERAL PRINCIPLES
- SECTION I OF THE NATURE OF THE IDEAS CONVEYABLE BY ART
- SECTION II OF POWER
- PART II OF TRUTH
- SECTION I GENERAL PRINCIPLES RESPECTING IDEAS OF TRUTH
- SECTION II OF GENERAL TRUTHS
- SECTION III OF TRUTH OF SKIES
- SECTION IV OF TRUTH OF EARTH
- SECTION V OF TRUTH OF WATER
- SECTION VI OF TRUTH OF VEGETATION.—CONCLUSION
- Appendix
- I A REPLY TO Blackwood's CRITICISM OF TURNER (1836)
- II REPLIES TO CRITICISMS OF MODERN PAINTERS VOL. I.
- III LETTERS ON Modern Painters, VOL. I.
- IV PREFACES TO SELECTIONS FROM Modern Painter
- V THE MSS. OF Modern Painters, VOL. I.
- VI MINOR Variæ Lectiones
- Plate section
V - THE MSS. OF Modern Painters, VOL. I.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 September 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- INTRODUCTION TO THIS VOLUME
- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
- MODERN PAINTERS VOLUME I
- AUTHOR'S PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION (1843)
- AUTHOR'S PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION (1844)
- AUTHOR'S PREFACE TO THIRD EDITION (1846)
- AUTHOR'S PREFACE TO NEW EDITION (1873)
- AUTHOR'S SYNOPSIS OF CONTENTS
- PART I OF GENERAL PRINCIPLES
- SECTION I OF THE NATURE OF THE IDEAS CONVEYABLE BY ART
- SECTION II OF POWER
- PART II OF TRUTH
- SECTION I GENERAL PRINCIPLES RESPECTING IDEAS OF TRUTH
- SECTION II OF GENERAL TRUTHS
- SECTION III OF TRUTH OF SKIES
- SECTION IV OF TRUTH OF EARTH
- SECTION V OF TRUTH OF WATER
- SECTION VI OF TRUTH OF VEGETATION.—CONCLUSION
- Appendix
- I A REPLY TO Blackwood's CRITICISM OF TURNER (1836)
- II REPLIES TO CRITICISMS OF MODERN PAINTERS VOL. I.
- III LETTERS ON Modern Painters, VOL. I.
- IV PREFACES TO SELECTIONS FROM Modern Painter
- V THE MSS. OF Modern Painters, VOL. I.
- VI MINOR Variæ Lectiones
- Plate section
Summary
The MSS. of portions of this volume, to which the editors have had access, and which (so far as they are aware) are alone extant, are as follow:—
(I.) The Brantwood MS. contained in the second of the two MS. books of The Poetry of Architecture. The Modern Painters MSS. occupy sixty to seventy pages of this book, and consist of two drafts, (a) and (b)—probably the earliest made by the author—of this volume as first designed by him.
(a) The first draft of all proceeds only a very short way. The following is the text of it:—
“The ends of all landscape painting are, properly speaking, two. The first, to set before the spectator a true and accurate representation of objects. The second, to convey into the mind of the spectator the peculiar impression those objects made on the mind of the painter himself. Artists, as they aim at one or other of these ends, may be divided into the painters of facts, and the painters of emotion—two great classes, to one or other of which all landscape painters may be referred.
“The painters of facts have again two distinct ends. The one, to delight by accuracy of imitation; the other, to delight by the beauty of the represented objects. […]
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- The Works of John Ruskin , pp. 680 - 684Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1903