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 ...

THE LETTERS OF JOHN RUSKIN TO LORD AND LADY MOUNT-TEMPLE, edited by John Lewis Bradley. 399 pages. Ohio State University Press. $6.25. John Ruskin was a critic of great ability and prodigious output.

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 ...

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