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the gaps, left or overleaped by the haste of the
imagination, forming the grotesque character.
For Ruskin, Gothic appeared as an indispensable means of
breaking open the closed system of perception that Blake spent
his life describing and fighting. Ruskin proceeds (p. 96) to
explain Gothic grotesque as the best way of ending the regime
of Renaissance perspective and single vision or realism:
It is with a view (not the least important among many
others bearing upon art) to the reopening of this great
field of human intelligence, long entirely closed, that I am
striving to introduce Gothic architecture into daily
domestic use; and to revive the art of illumination,
properly so called; not the art of miniature-painting in
books, or on vellum, which has ridiculously been confused