Ruskin's Venice: The Stones Revisited - Couverture rigide

Quill, Sarah

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1848221452 ISBN 13 : 9781848221451

Editeur : Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd, 2015

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

Ruskin s Venice invites us to experience the city afresh through the eyes of this great prose writer. But be warned: this book is very seductive and may entail a journey, --- Frances Spalding, The Sunday Times Sarah Quill has done all of us a service by producing a beautiful, readable, portable book: Ruskin s Venice, The Stones revisited. She matches manageable quotes from Ruskin with his often exquisite drawings, and her own immaculate photographs. It is the friendliest companion to prop up with you, at the prow of a water bus travelling the length of the Grand Canal.... --- Maev Kennedy, The Guardian ...a quirky guidebook illustrated by the author s marvellous photographs, --- Financial Times Sarah Quill s Ruskin s Venice: The Stones revisited sets her glorious photographs of Venetian buildings alongside extracts and engravings from The Stones of Venice. The pictures evince a quality of attention to light, colour, ornament and the characters of different kinds of stone, that perfectly accords with Ruskin s spirit, --- Times Literary Supplement ...a robust, extroverted companion volume... --- The Art Newspaper, No. 101 Anthologising Ruskin for today s audience is a difficult and daunting task, but one brilliantly carried out by Sarah Quill in this book, --- Geographical Magazine Quill offers a good introduction to both Ruskin and Venice, --- Choice, vol. 37 no. 11/12 ...an excellent introduction to his writings, - (Historic House)

Présentation de l'éditeur

In Ruskin s Venice: The Stones Revisited, newly published in a revised, extended and re-designed edition, photographer Sarah Quill has selected passages from Ruskin s The Stones of Venice and has linked them to her own photographs of Venetian architecture, so creating a fascinating guide that fuses Ruskin's vision of the city with images of the present day. This new edition incorporates up-to-date views of buildings which have been cleaned since originally photographed. Several of Ruskin s watercolours are included, with extracts and reproductions from his Venetian notebooks, now publicly available, and some of his original daguerreotype photographs of Venice. Sarah Quill s expert editorial annotations and commentary, incorporating extracts from Ruskin s letters from Venice, enhance our understanding of Ruskin s text and provide an essential linking thread throughout. The book has been completely re-designed to be even more user-friendly as both a reference book and a guide for travellers to Venice.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1848221452
• ISBN 13: 9781848221451
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 256