Modern painters
by John Ruskin · first published 1843
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These volumes include 87 collotype illustrations from art, many marked "artotype", copied from the English edition. Two printers were used for the plates, Harroun & Bierstadt, New York, and the Heliotype Printing Co., Boston. These volumes provide examples of how photomechanical processes were becoming used in art publication to reproduce an images originally published elsewhere. -- Hanson Collection Catalog, p. 61.
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…talked about capitalism instead > You shall have thousands of gold pieces; - thousands of thousands - millions - mountains of gold: where will you keep them? More technical, but I constantly use Ruskin's Modern Painters as art reference. Each volume has detailed chapelters on natural forms (trees, mountains, etc). The attempts at geometric drawings of the structures of cloud patterns are particularly beautiful imo. He's…
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on “Ask HN: Best books you read in 2013” ↗…He may now be considered rather old fashioned but he is one of the few thinkers on art who effectively addressed its formal attributes. He also drew, which is a plus. In the same vein there is Ruskin (Modern Painters) who really understood how an artist thinks, and was no slouch as an artist (draftsman) himself. On color in art I would recommend Bruse MacEvoy's Handprint website. On the topic of color, he has forgotten…
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