Project Gutenberg 2009-09-04 Public domain in the USA. 155 Ruskin, John 1819 1900 Ruskin, J. (John) Modern Painters, Volume 2 (of 5) Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Marius Borror and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "Modern Painters, Volume 2" by John Ruskin is a philosophical treatise on art, aesthetics, and the nature of beauty written in the mid-19th century. The volume delves into the concepts of the theoretic and imaginative faculties, exploring how they pertain to the perception of beauty in art and nature. Ruskin asserts that art is not merely a pastime but a serious pursuit that engages deep moral and intellectual responsibilities. At the start, Ruskin reflects on the importance and difficulty of appreciating beauty, emphasizing that art requires careful and earnest study. He discusses the degradation of art in contemporary society, criticizing the utilitarian view that measures value through practical applications alone. Ruskin differentiates between practical arts, which serve immediate utility, and theoretical arts, which reflect and elevate human perception and understanding of beauty. He argues that understanding beauty demands a moral and emotional engagement that transcends mere sensory pleasure. Overall, this opening sets the stage for a profound exploration of the moral dimensions of art and the profound connection between human experience and the divine. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Aesthetics Painting ND Text Browsing: Art & Photography Browsing: Philosophy & Ethics 691637 691248 2024-09-12T16:29:06.123046 2023-09-13T08:20:21.129878 text/html text/html 683425 2009-09-04T09:21:22 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 676494 2009-09-04T09:27:32 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 746140 2024-09-12T16:29:17.549884 application/epub+zip 755017 2024-09-12T16:29:08.879966 application/epub+zip 304127 2024-09-12T16:29:07.303950 application/epub+zip 1029785 2024-09-12T16:29:23.542908 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 973362 2024-09-12T16:29:16.319876 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 523342 2022-09-14T03:32:40.890084 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 596750 596646 2024-09-12T16:29:04.672930 2023-09-13T08:20:19.726839 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 595878 2009-09-04T09:21:22 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 215775 2009-09-04T09:27:32 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 597755 2009-09-04T09:27:18 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 215771 2009-09-04T09:27:32 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20152 2024-09-12T16:29:23.689839 application/rdf+xml 15156 2024-09-12T16:29:07.700927 image/jpeg 3743 2024-09-12T16:29:07.501948 image/jpeg 734295 2024-09-12T16:29:06.192943 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia