The Influence of John Ruskin on the Teaching of Drawing in Brazil: How His Spatial Way of Thinking Affects Architecture and Pain

This book presents a different point of view of Ruskin. The author regards Ruskin's production about architecture as a part of a logic of composition which includes all the themes Ruskin deals with, such as Painting, Literature, Geology, Economical Policy, Education, Labor and Nature. These themes belong to the logic of composition such as methods to structure any subject within a particular theory of perception. Ruskin's writing shows his influence at the beginning of Brazil's industrialization process regarding the teaching of drawing.