TY - BOOK AU - Ruskin,John TI - Modern Painters, Volume 2 (of 5) AV - ND PY - 2009/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Aesthetics KW - Painting N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Painters; Release date is 2009-09-04; Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Marius Borror and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net; Original publication data not identified N2 - "Modern Painters, Volume 2 (of 5)" by John Ruskin is a work of art criticism published in 1846. This second volume shifts focus to symbolism in art as expressed through nature, building on Ruskin's defense of J.M.W. Turner and modern landscape painters. The volume proved influential on the emerging Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, offering a new framework for understanding how artists capture not merely what they see, but deeper truths about the natural world and its symbolic meaning. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/29906 ER -