Of Ruskinian Topography: Visible and Legible Salience in Modern Painters
As contemporary critics have shown, John Ruskin’s lifelong interest in geology not only provided him with a unique understanding of the mountain as a painting subject but also allowed him to develop an idiosyncratic theory of perception where movement and salience prevail – a theory he then applied...
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Institut de Géographie Alpine
2016-09-01
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| Series: | Revue de Géographie Alpine |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/rga/3407 |