"Watchful Wandering": John Ruskin's Strayings in Venice

Kite, Stephen 2009. "Watchful Wandering": John Ruskin's Strayings in Venice. Journal of Architectural Education 62 (4) , pp. 106-114. 10.1111/j.1531-314X.2009.01011.x

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Abstract

Through close readings of John Ruskin’s notebooks and diaries (related to The Stones of Venice) and the city itself, this paper explores his “watchful wandering”—as he characterized it—as a mode of urban experience and analysis, and that connected vision wherein the concrete fragment emblematizes the whole. Within a long history of ambulatory urban contemplation and journeyings, the paper locates Ruskin at the cusp of the pre- and early modern, exposing thereby a tension between the ethical and the aesthetic; between Ruskin’s threefold vision—imbricating the romantic, scientific, and symbolic—and the blasé detachment of the urban flâneur.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Architecture
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races N Fine Arts > NA Architecture
Publisher:	Wiley-Blackwell
ISSN:	1046-4883
Last Modified:	04 Jun 2017 02:49
URI:	http://orca.cf.ac.uk/id/eprint/12385

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