LONDON — Time hasn’t been kind to the reputation of John Ruskin. Two hundred years after his birth, hardly anyone today remembers Victorian England’s pre-eminent art critic and social philosopher for ...

S Scott Reyburn Follow LONDON — Time hasn’t been kind to the reputation of John Ruskin. Two hundred years after his birth, hardly anyone today remembers Victorian England’s pre-eminent art critic and ...

Although critics now have their own television shows and visual signatures – a mustache, say, that makes them instantly recognizable – it is hard to imagine any contemporary critic who affected his ...

IN the preface to the fifth and last volume of Modern Painters Ruskin gives a brief statement of " matters which had employed or interrupted ” him between 1855 and 1860. The great variety of these ...

Ruskin's personality, even more a mass of contradictions and confusions than the rest of us, was nurtured within a suffocating environment created by parents who doted on their precocious and ...

One. The Paragone Of Drawing And Writing -- Two. Ruskin's Picturesque -- Three. Geology, Mineralogy, Mountains -- Four. Water, Rivers, Meteorology -- Five. Places and ...

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Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. 'The Tower of Thun, Switzerland’ (1854) © Collection of the Guild of St ...

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 ...

IN the summer of 1868 I again went to Europe with my family. During a week or two which we passed in London Ruskin was with us frequently, and we were more than once at Denmark Hill. At his own home ...