Modern Painters

"It is altogether a brilliant and exemplary passage of criticism. There is extraordinary attentive patience in the way Ruskin keeps on looking and discovering....Above all, he does the best which criticism can do. He gives us something which is equivalent to the thing which he is analyzing--as spirited, intelligent, alive. As art is to reality, so criticism can be to art. Which is to say that Ruskin gives us the thing itself with a wholeness which we could not have got without him."Ruskin, John is the author of 'Modern Painters ' with ISBN 9781417945498 and ISBN 1417945494.