John Ruskin was way ahead of his time – recognising climate change nearly 150 years ago. A new exhibition at Sheffield’s ...
John Ruskin (1819-1900), a prominent English art critic of the Victorian era, discussed in his writings possibilities for the reconciliation of two adverse trends in British art of his time: the ...
One. The Paragone Of Drawing And Writing -- Two. Ruskin's Picturesque -- Three. Geology, Mineralogy, Mountains -- Four. Water, Rivers, Meteorology -- Five. Places and ...
THE year 1860, in which the fifth and last volume of Modern Painters was published, was the exact middle year of Ruskin’s life. The great work of his youth which had been his main occupation for ...
Mere sanity is the most philistine and (at bottom) unimportant of a man’s attributes.” So goes one of the best known of William James’s obiter dicta. It is not so widely known that James wrote those ...