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 |
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 |
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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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