An introduction to the life, work and art of one of the most influential and exhilarating writers in English. Art critic, architectural visionary, social reformer, climate warner and incomparable teacher: Ruskin's words not only transformed Victorian England but speak to us with increasing urg[...]
Ruskin is one of the most influential and exhilarating writers in English. Art critic, architectural visionary,social reformer, climate warner and incomparable teacher; Ruskin's words not only transformed VictorianEngland but speak to us with increasing urgency today. This, the first general introdu[...]
To call Praeterita an autobiography is to tell only part of the truth. A book like no other, by oneof the greatest masters of English prose., it is less a narrative than the prismatic sotry of an extraordinary mind and a passionate heart told in terms of the author's aesthetic education. Ruskin was [...]
The Stones of Venice has been described as the greatest guidebook ever written. Read by all who went there and thousands who did not, it opened Victorian eyes to the glories of a city even then under threat, and transformed the study and practice of architecture forever. It took Ruskin almost half a[...]
The drawings of John Ruskin are exhilarating to look at, any they express his own sense of exhilaration as he observed landscape and nature, buildings and artifacts. They deserve to be appreciated afresh by a wider audience.Accompanying a landmark exhibition at the National Galleries of Canada and S[...]