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dc.identifier	ECF_article_20537
dc.title	Revisioning the Image. Ruskin’s ‘Iconology-in-Progress’
dc.contributor.author	Tucker Paul
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.type	Research Article
dc.language.iso	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/english-literature/2024/11/revisioning-the-image/
dc.description.abstract	This paper explores Ruskin's lifelong concern with the nature and significance of visual images. It argues that the diverse modes and moments of his engagement with vthem may be read as variant expressions of a progressively constituted iconology, unified by basic conception of the image as a representation whose essence is interpretative, but the locus and orientation of whose interpretative function are diversely intended and articulated over time. A chronological review of select stages and junctures of his 'iconology-in-progress' highlights Ruskin's increasing emphasis on this indexical mode of interpretative meaning.
dc.relation.ispartof	English Literature
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 11 \| December 2024
dc.issued	2025-03-07
dc.dateSubmitted	2024-07-29
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2420-823X
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/EL/2420-823X/2024/11/001
dc.peer-review	no
dc.subject	Iconology
dc.subject	Image
dc.subject	Index
dc.subject	Ruskin
dc.subject	Sign

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Ruskin’s ‘Iconology-in-Progress’

Paul Tucker Università degli Studi di Firenze

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This paper explores Ruskin's lifelong concern with the nature and significance of visual images. It argues that the diverse modes and moments of his engagement with vthem may be read as variant expressions of a progressively constituted iconology, unified by basic conception of the image as a representation whose essence is interpretative, but the locus and orientation of whose interpretative function are diversely intended and articulated over time. A chronological review of select stages and junctures of his 'iconology-in-progress' highlights Ruskin's increasing emphasis on this indexical mode of interpretative meaning.

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March 7, 2025

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July 29, 2024

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Keywords: Sign • Index • Iconology • Image • Ruskin

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