The English critic and social theorist John Ruskin (1819-1900) more than any other man shaped the esthetic values and tastes of Victorian England. His writings combine enormous sensitivity and human compassion with a burning zeal for moral value. John...

John Ruskin was the most influential art critic to write in England between the death of Sir Joshua Reynolds in 1792 and the publications of Clive Bell and others around 1914. It is not, in fact, too much to say that his is the most important body of...

During his prolific career John Ruskin wrote many more works for adults than those especially for young people. He is, however, well known in the field of children's literature because of his literary fairy tale The King of the Golden River; or, The...

Ruskin, John(1819–1900) John Ruskin, the English critic of art and society, was born in London, the son of a wine merchant. He began writing while at Oxford and in 1843 published, in London, the first volume of Modern Painters , four more...

He was the Slade Professor of Fine Art at Oxford University, a well-known writer and a committed adult educator who taught at the Working Men’s College with F D...

John Ruskin (8 February 1819 – 20 January 1900) is best known for his work as an art critic and social critic, but is remembered as an author, poet and artist as well. Ruskin's essays on art and architecture were extremely influential in the...

Writer and artist John Ruskin was a towering yet discomfiting figure, exalted in his vision of art as the instrument of a moral society troubled in his private life. A spate of centenary exhibitions demonstrates the enduring authority of that eminent Victorian's achievements....

John Ruskin was a 19th-century British art critic whose work extended to British culture as well. Ruskin disliked abstraction, preferring more realistic work that could be used to impart moral edification. He wrote extensively on the work of J.M.W. Turner and supported artists of...

John Ruskin, the English art critic, never consummated his marriage because on his wedding night, he discovered with revulsion that his wife’s pubis did not present the smooth, polished surface of a Greek statue, but was instead covered with hair. Ho ho ho, we laugh,...

John Ruskin, the English art critic, never consummated his marriage because on his wedding night, he discovered with revulsion that his wife’s pubis did not present the smooth, polished surface of a Greek statue, but was instead covered with hair. Ho ho ho, we laugh,...

In the following essay, Townsend discusses the inspiration for and logical inconsistencies in Ruskin's work, particularly Time and Tide.

In the following essay, Stein offers a critique of Ruskin's idealized view of nature and of rural life as expressed in The Poetry of Architecture.

In the following essay, Shell explores Ruskin's belief that aesthetic taste is inseparable from political and economic realities.

The following provides an analysis of the essay written by John Ruskin.