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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAP. II. THE PHILOSOPHY OF ART. THE TURNER CONTROVERSY. THE PHARISEES. I Call the topics we first enter on the Turner Controversy, because it has become next to impossible to avoid the examination of them under that form. Not only has Mr. Ruskin waged war, from first to last, in the name of Joseph Mallord William Turner; but that strange man himself did battle through all the most important part of his professional life, and by his strange bequest of two of his works to the National Gallery, may be said to continue to do battle from his grave. Here is Mr. Ruskin's broad statement of the point at issue: ? We find painters ranging themselves into two great classes, one aiming at the developement of the exquisite truths of specific form, refined colour, and ethereal space, and content with the clear and impressive recognition of any of these, by whatever means obtained; and the other casting all these aside to obtain the particular truths of tone and chiaroscuro which may trick the spectator into a belief of reality. ., . They endeavour only to make you think you are looking at wood?in all of them, everything that they can do is done for deception, and nothing for the sake or love of what they are painting. (Modern THE PHARISEES. 15 Painters, pt. i. sec. i. chap, vii.) They passed their lives in jugglery. (Ibid.) It will be seen at once that this part of our inquiry is purely defensive. The question is not whether Joseph Mallord William Turner was a great painter, but whether all preceding landscape painters were, for two centuries or more, bad men ? whether their art, instead of meriting the renown so long awarded them, does not, in reality, convict them of moral pravity. The issue is of no small moment ? ourselves alone considered. We have been...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217789417 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217789412 |
| Weight | 0.78 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.54 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 236 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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