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Chapter II: Of Imagination Associative

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§ 1. Of simple conception. 147 § 2. How connected with verbal knowledge. 148 § 3. How used in composition. 148 § 4. Characteristics of composition. 149 § 5. What powers are implied by it. The first of the three functions of fancy. 150 § 6. Imagination not yet manifested. 150 § 7. Imagination is the correlative conception of imperfect component parts. 151 § 8. Material analogy with imagination. 151 § 9. The grasp and dignity of imagination. 152 § 10. Its limits. 153 § 11. How manifested in treatment of uncertain relations. Its deficiency illustrated. 154 § 12. Laws of art, the safeguard of the unimaginative. 155 § 13. Are by the imaginative painter despised. Tests of imagination. 155 § 14. The monotony of unimaginative treatment. 156 § 15. Imagination never repeats itself. 157 § 16. Relation of the imaginative faculty to the theoretic. 157 § 17. Modification of its manifestation. 158 § 18. Instances of absence of imagination.—Claude, Gaspar Poussin. 158 § 19. Its presence.—Salvator, Nicolo Poussin, Titian, Tintoret. 159 § 20. And Turner. 160 § 21. The due function of Associative imagination with respect to nature. 161 § 22. The sign of imaginative work is its appearance of absolute truth. 161

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Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of John RuskinChapter II: Of Imagination Associative

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