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- Frontmatter
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- INTRODUCTION TO THIS VOLUME
- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
- Modern Painters, VOL. III. (CONTAINING THE TEXT OF ALL THE EDITIONS)
- PREFACE
- PART IV “OF MANY THINGS”
- CHAP. I OF THE RECEIVED OPINIONS TOUCHING THE “GRAND STYLE”
- CHAP. II OF REALIZATION
- CHAP. III OF THE REAL NATURE OF GREATNESS OF STYLE
- CHAP. IV OF THE FALSE IDEAL:—FIRST, RELIGIOUS
- CHAP. V OF THE FALSE IDEAL:—SECONDLY, PROFANE
- CHAP. VI OF THE TRUE IDEAL:—FIRST, PURIST
- CHAP. VII OF THE TRUE IDEAL:—SECONDLY, NATURALIST
- CHAP. VIII OF THE TRUE IDEAL:—THIRDLY, GROTESQUE
- CHAP. IX OF FINISH
- CHAP. X OF THE USE OF PICTURES
- CHAP. XI OF THE NOVELTY OF LANDSCAPE
- CHAP. XII OF THE PATHETIC FALLACY
- CHAP. XIII OF CLASSICAL LANDSCAPE
- CHAP. XIV OF MEDIÆVAL LANDSCAPE:—FIRST, THE FIELDS
- CHAP. XV OF MEDIÆVAL LANDSCAPE:—SECONDLY, THE ROCKS
- CHAP. XVI OF MODERN LANDSCAPE
- CHAP. XVII THE MORAL OF LANDSCAPE
- CHAP. XVIII OF THE TEACHERS OF TURNER
- APPENDIX
- Plate section
CHAP. VIII - OF THE TRUE IDEAL:—THIRDLY, GROTESQUE
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- INTRODUCTION TO THIS VOLUME
- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
- Modern Painters, VOL. III. (CONTAINING THE TEXT OF ALL THE EDITIONS)
- PREFACE
- PART IV “OF MANY THINGS”
- CHAP. I OF THE RECEIVED OPINIONS TOUCHING THE “GRAND STYLE”
- CHAP. II OF REALIZATION
- CHAP. III OF THE REAL NATURE OF GREATNESS OF STYLE
- CHAP. IV OF THE FALSE IDEAL:—FIRST, RELIGIOUS
- CHAP. V OF THE FALSE IDEAL:—SECONDLY, PROFANE
- CHAP. VI OF THE TRUE IDEAL:—FIRST, PURIST
- CHAP. VII OF THE TRUE IDEAL:—SECONDLY, NATURALIST
- CHAP. VIII OF THE TRUE IDEAL:—THIRDLY, GROTESQUE
- CHAP. IX OF FINISH
- CHAP. X OF THE USE OF PICTURES
- CHAP. XI OF THE NOVELTY OF LANDSCAPE
- CHAP. XII OF THE PATHETIC FALLACY
- CHAP. XIII OF CLASSICAL LANDSCAPE
- CHAP. XIV OF MEDIÆVAL LANDSCAPE:—FIRST, THE FIELDS
- CHAP. XV OF MEDIÆVAL LANDSCAPE:—SECONDLY, THE ROCKS
- CHAP. XVI OF MODERN LANDSCAPE
- CHAP. XVII THE MORAL OF LANDSCAPE
- CHAP. XVIII OF THE TEACHERS OF TURNER
- APPENDIX
- Plate section
Summary
§ 1. I have already, in the Stones of Venice, had occasion to analyze, as far as I was able, the noble nature and power of grotesque conception: I am not sorry occasionally to refer the reader to that work, the fact being that it and this are parts of one whole, divided merely as I had occasion to follow out one or other of its branches; for I have always considered architecture as an essential part of landscape; and I think the study of its best styles and real meaning one of the necessary functions of the landscape painter; as, in like manner, the architect cannot be a master-workman until all his designs are guided by understanding of the wilder beauty of pure nature. But, be this as it may, the discussion of the grotesque element belonged most properly to the essay on architecture, in which that element must always find its fullest development.
§ 2. The Grotesque is in that chapter divided principally into three kinds:
(A.) Art arising from healthful but irrational play of the imagination in times of rest.
(B.) Art arising from irregular and accidental contemplation of terrible things; or evil in general.
(C.) Art arising from the confusion of the imagination by the presence of truths which it cannot wholly grasp.
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- The Works of John Ruskin , pp. 130 - 148Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1904