Modern Painters, Vol. 3 of 5 (Classic Reprint). John Ruskin
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Author: John Ruskin
Page Count: 466 pages
Published Date: 27 Sep 2015
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Publication Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781330337257
Download Link: Modern Painters, Vol. 3 of 5 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Modern Painters, Vol. 3 of 5
As this preface is nearly all about myself, no one need take the trouble of reading it, unless he happens to be desirous of knowing - what I, at least, am bound to state, - the circumstance which have caused the long delay of the work, as well as the alterations which will be noticed in its form.
The first and second volumes were written to check, as far as I could, the attacks upon Turner which prevented the public from honoring his genius, at the time when his power was greatest. The check was partially given, but too later; Turner was seized by painful illness not long after the second volume appeared; his works, toward the close of the year 1845, showed a conclusive failure of power; and I saw that nothing remained for me to write, but his epitaph.
The critics had done their proper and appointed work; they had embittered, more than those who did not know Turner intimately could have believed possible, the closing years of his life; and had blinded the world in general (as it appears ordained by Fate that the world always shall be blinded) to the presence of a great spirit among them, till the honour of its departure. With them, and their successful work, I had nothing more to do; the account of gain and loss, gifts and gratitude, between Turner and his countrymen, was for ever closed.
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