Ruskin

Ruskin (1974)

Ruskin visits the sites of John Ruskin’s work: London, the Alps and, above all, Venice, where the camera’s attention to masonry and the interaction of architecture and water mimics the author’s descriptive analysis of the “stones” of the city. The sound of pages turning and the image of a book, Ruskin’s ‘Unto This Last’, forcibly reminds us that a poet’s perceptions and in this case his political economy, are preserved and reawakened through acts of reading and writing.

Date of release
1974-05-30
TMDB
6.2 / 10 (5)
Runtime
1h 0m
Genres
Documentary
Director
Robert Beavers
Collection
My Hand Outstretched to the Winged Distance and Sightless Measure

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