Building Ruskin's Italy: Watching Architecture - Image 1

£149.54

Routledge Building Ruskin's Italy: Watching Architecture

Name: Building Ruskin's Italy: Watching Architecture
Brand: Routledge
Price: 149.54 GBP
Availability: InStock

Architects

This is the most expensive it has ever been. Walk away.

£150 today · previous high £150 · all-time low £140

NEW HERE?

Amazon shows you one price. We show you all of them.

Tosheroon watches Amazon prices so you don't have to. Every product on Amazon has a price history — we make it visible. Set the price you'd actually pay, and we'll email you the second it gets there. No app, no account, one email.

WHAT'S ON THIS PAGE

↓ Price chart
when this has been cheap or pricey

↓ Forecast
where the price is heading next

↓ Statistics
all-time high & low, recent range

↑ Price alert
name your number, we'll email you

Price History & Forecast

Grey patches = out of stock. Cheaper = lower on the chart. Hover for exact prices.

Last 84 days • 84 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 84 days • 3 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £149 (43 days, 51.2%)

Price range: £140 - £150

Price levels: 3 different prices over 84 days

Description

Based on extensive fieldwork, and research into John Ruskin's still little-interpreted archival material, notebooks and drawings (in the Ruskin Library, Lancaster University, UK and elsewhere), Stephen Kite offers an unprecedented account of the evolution of Ruskin's architectural thinking and observation in the context of Italy where his watching of building achieved its greatest intensity. Venice naturally figures large in a work that also examines other key sites including Verona, Lucca, Pisa, Florence, Milan and Monza; here, the fabrics are vividly read in their contexts against the rich evidence of Ruskin's diaries, his pocket-book sketches, architectural worksheets, drawings, and daguerrotypes (the early form of photography), and the drafts and published editions of the texts. Kite presents the complex story of Ruskin's visual thinking in architecture as a narrative of deepening interpretation and representation, focusing on the humbler monuments of Italy. He shows how Ruskin's early picturesque naturalism was transformed by the realisation that to understand the built realities confronting him in Italy demanded a closer engagement with the substance of the stones themselves; reflecting Ruskin's sense of his task as a near-archaeological gleaning and gathering of remains 'hidden in many a grass grown court, and silent pathway, and lightless canal'. Review A Yankee Book Peddler US Core Title for 2012 'Stephen Kite's study gives us an unprecedented understanding of the development of Ruskin's observation of, and thinking about, Italian Gothic architecture in the period leading to the publication of The Stones of Venice. The book sheds substantial new light on Ruskin's thinking at a key period in his intellectual development. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the subject.' Mark Swenarton, University of Liverpool, UK 'Kite’s professional concerns include architecture and conservation within the build environment, and his expertise runs through this skilful and enjoyable book.' Ruskin Review and Bulletin 'Building Ruskin's Italy is a well illustrated book ... Stephen Kite's investigation of how Ruskin went from youthful traveller to knowledgeable architectural pundit fills a niche. By going beyond the boundaries of Venice, we are reminded of how Ruskin stretched his understanding of Italian Gothic architecture, and of his joy of discovery.' Eighth Lamp - Ruskin Studies Today '[This is] a book that combines architectural acumen with a deft sense of the nuanced demands of archival research ... [Stephen Kite] takes us deep into John Ruskin's techniques and expertise in order to show just how impactful his method of architectural observation and interpretation was upon later practices.' The Journal of Architecture About the Author Stephen Kite is Professor at the Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University, UK.

Product Specifications

Brand: Routledge
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1409437965
Category: Books > Subjects > Arts & Photography > Architecture > Architects
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 05 July 2012
Listed Since: 13 October 2011

Barcode

No barcode data available

Routledge Building Ruskin's Italy: Watching Architecture

This is the most expensive it has ever been. Walk away.

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Building Ruskin's Italy: Watching Architecture

Economy and Architecture

Decimus Burton: Gentleman Architect

Dado Castello Branco: Brazilian Timeless Architecture & Interiors

Literatura y arte: Intermediate Spanish (World Languages)

Artful Itineraries: European Art and American Careers in High Culture, 1865-1920 (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory)

Revisiting Italy: British Women Travel Writers and the Risorgimento (1844–61) (Routledge Research in Travel Writing)

Romantic Echoes in the Victorian Era (The Nineteenth Century Series)

Public Sculpture of Bristol: 12

Romantic Echoes in the Victorian Era (The Nineteenth Century Series)

Knight in the Panther s Skin: A Masterpiece in World Literature (Fine Arts, Music and Literature)

British Architectural Sculpture: 1851-1951

Women Artists in the Reign of Catherine the Great (Northern Lights)

Architecture of Italy (Reference Guides to National Architecture)

Zwischen Tradition Und Aufbruch. Deutschunterricht Und Lesebuch Im Deutschen Kaiserreich: 60 (Beitraege Zur Geschichte Des Deutschunterrichts)

Albion′s Classicism – The Visual Arts in England 1550–1650 – Studies in British Art V 2: The Visual Arts in Britain, 1550-1660

International Construction Management: How the Global Industry Reshapes the World

Cross-Cultural Interaction Between Byzantium and the West, 1204–1669: Whose Mediterranean Is It Anyway?: 22 (Publications of the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies)

Cross-Cultural Interaction Between Byzantium and the West, 1204–1669: Whose Mediterranean Is It Anyway? (Publications of the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies)

A Research Guide to Gothic Fiction in English: Print and Electronic Sources

Die Bestellermitwirkung zwischen Obliegenheit und Pflicht: Eine dogmatische Analyse praxisrelevanter Probleme unter besonderer Beruecksichtigung des ... 4777 (Europäische Hochschulschriften Recht)

Medieval Irish Architecture and the Concept of Romanesque: Building Traditions in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Europe

The Routledge Handbook to the Ghost Story (Routledge Literature Handbooks)

Richard Smith: Artworks 1954–2013