Modern Painters

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Modern Painters is a multi-volume art criticism work by John Ruskin that passionately defends the truthfulness and moral value of modern landscape painting, especially that of J.M.W. Turner.

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instanceOf art criticism book
multi-volume work
non-fiction book
advocates close observation of nature
argues modern painters can surpass Old Masters in truth to nature
associatedWithMovement Victorian art
author John Ruskin
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
criticizes academic classicism in art
defends truthfulness of modern landscape painting
discusses Old Masters
contemporary landscape painters
principles of beauty in nature
emphasizes moral value of modern landscape painting
expandedTo five volumes
firstEditionFormat two volumes initially planned
firstVolumePublicationYear 1843
genre art criticism
hasCriticalReception highly influential in 19th-century Britain
hasPart Modern Painters, Volume I
Modern Painters, Volume II
Modern Painters, Volume III
Modern Painters, Volume IV
Modern Painters, Volume V
hasTheme relationship between art and morality
truth to nature in art
influenced Victorian aesthetics
Victorian art criticism
perception of J. M. W. Turner
language English
lastVolumePublicationYear 1860
literaryPeriod Victorian era
mainSubject aesthetics
art theory
landscape painting
notableFor defense of modern landscape painters over Old Masters
detailed analysis of J. M. W. Turner’s work
numberOfVolumes 5
periodDiscussed 19th-century art
placeOfPublicationOfFirstVolume London, England
surface form: London
publisherOfFirstVolume Smith, Elder & Co.
supportsArtist J. M. W. Turner
targetAudience art critics
artists
educated general readers
writtenBy John Ruskin

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John Ruskin notableWork Modern Painters
The Stones of Venice relatedWork Modern Painters
John notableWork Modern Painters
subject surface form: John Ruskin