Division, Juncture, System: Bridges and Bridge-Building in the Work

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dc.contributor.author	Tucker Paul
dc.title	Division, Juncture, System: Bridges and Bridge-Building in the Work of John Ruskin
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	This chapter starts by considering a recent design for a bridge named after Ruskin, whose inadequacy it attributes to disregard for Ruskin's definition of a bridge's basic function as that of safe passage over a river and misapplication of his concept of ‘abstract lines’ as ornament. For Ruskin, curvature determined by that function allowed bridges materially to trace such lines and so epitomize general laws governing landscape composition, natural morphology and human co-existence. Taking it as a figure of connection, threaded as a clue through his work, the chapter explores Ruskin's sense of the significance and sacredness of bridges, manifested especially in the role he assigned to an ideal Pontifex, guarantor of secure passage across national, cultural and cognitive divides.
dc.relation.ispartof	Sources, Literatures, Arts & Landscapes of Europe
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2020-12-15
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-488-2/division-juncture-system-bridges-and-bridge-buildi/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-487-5/011
dc.identifier.issn	2724-6620
dc.identifier.eissn	2784-8507
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-488-2
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-487-5
dc.rights	Creative Commons 4.0 Attribution + Noncommercial + NoDerivatives
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item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	no
dc.subject	Architecture
dc.subject	Architecture
dc.subject	Bridges
dc.subject	Bridges
dc.subject	Composition
dc.subject	Composition
dc.subject	Europe
dc.subject	Europe
dc.subject	Ornament
dc.subject	Ornament
dc.subject	Ruskin
dc.subject	Ruskin
dc.subject	Spuybroek
dc.subject	Spuybroek
dc.subject	Turner
dc.subject	Turner

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Division, Juncture, System: Bridges and Bridge-Building in the Work of John Ruskin

Paul Tucker Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italia

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This chapter starts by considering a recent design for a bridge named after Ruskin, whose inadequacy it attributes to disregard for Ruskin's definition of a bridge's basic function as that of safe passage over a river and misapplication of his concept of ‘abstract lines’ as ornament. For Ruskin, curvature determined by that function allowed bridges materially to trace such lines and so epitomize general laws governing landscape composition, natural morphology and human co-existence. Taking it as a figure of connection, threaded as a clue through his work, the chapter explores Ruskin's sense of the significance and sacredness of bridges, manifested especially in the role he assigned to an ideal Pontifex, guarantor of secure passage across national, cultural and cognitive divides.

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Dec. 15, 2020

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978-88-6969-488-2

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Keywords: Ornament • Architecture • Bridges • Turner • Spuybroek • Composition • Europe • Ruskin

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