Ruskin

Ruskin visits the sites of art critic John Ruskins work London the Alps and above all Venice where the cameras attention to masonry and the interaction of architecture and water mimics the authors descriptive analysis of the stones of the city The sound of pages turning and the image of a book Ruskins Unto This Last forcibly reminds us that a poets perceptions and in this case his political economy are preserved and reawakened through acts of reading and writing P Adams Sitney