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John Ruskin's Study of Nature

존 러스킨의 자연 연구

  • Lim, Shan (Dept. of Curatorial Studies, Dongduk Women's Univ)
  • 임산 (동덕여자대학교 큐레이터학과)
  • Received : 2020.01.29
  • Accepted : 2020.02.25
  • Published : 2020.05.31
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Abstract

This paper considers the research content and its historical significance of the Study of Nature conducted by John Ruskin(1819-1900) who had a profound influence on art, architecture, social reformation, and preservation of natural environment in Great Britain. Because Ruskin's Study of Nature would be the key to understand totally the implicative meaning of his various academic trials for integrating a wider contexts among human, culture, and society, without being bound by the rules of conventional disciplines. For Ruskin, 'Nature' is defined as 'a system' governing every aspects of human and non-human beings, formulating certain laws of composition. This system has an ecological quality to form a state of harmony by internal interaction and process. Such organic quality of nature worked as 'a metaphor' in Ruskin's research practices. Therefore, Ruskin's Study of Nature would be the conceptual basis for organizing and connecting its various elements of Ruskin's spiritual world.

본고는 영국의 미술, 건축, 사회개혁, 자연 환경의 보존 등 사회의 다양한 분야에 깊은 영향력을 남긴 존 러스킨(1819-1900)의 자연 연구의 내용과 그 역사적 의의를 찾고자 한다. 러스킨의 자연 연구는 어느 특정한 학제에 갇히지 않으며 인간, 문화, 사회의 광범위한 맥락을 포착해 내려 한 그의 시도가 지니는 함의를 총체적으로 이해할 수 있게 해주는 열쇠가 될 것이기 때문이다. 러스킨에게 '자연'은 어떤 구성적 규칙들을 생산하며 인간과 비인간 존재의 모든 측면들을 지배하는 '체계'로서 규정된다. 그 체계는 내부에서의 상호작용과 프로세스를 통해 조화의 상태를 이루고자 하는 생태적 속성을 지닌다. 이러한 자연의 유기적 특질은 러스킨의 연구에서 하나의 '은유'로서 작동한다. 그러므로 러스킨의 자연 연구는 그의 광대한 정신세계를 이루는 여러 요소들을 서로 연결하여 통일성을 형성하는 데 필요한 개념적 기초를 이루었다고 말할 수 있다.

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