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Two Hundred Years of John Ruskin

Edited by Tim Barringer, with Tara Contractor, Victoria Hepburn, Judith Stapleton, and Courtney Skipton Long

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An innovative and lavishly illustrated account of the art, writings, and global influence of one of the 19th century’s most influential thinkers

This book presents an innovative portrait of John Ruskin (1819–1900) as artist, art critic, social theorist, educator, and ecological campaigner. Ruskin’s juvenilia reveal an early embrace of his lifelong interests in geology and botany, art, poetry, and mythology. His early admiration of Turner led him to identify the moral power of close looking. In The Stones of Venice, illustrated with his own drawings, he argued that the development of architectural style revealed the moral condition of society. Later, Ruskin pioneered new approaches to teaching and museum practice. Influential worldwide, Ruskin’s work inspired William Morris, founders of the Labour Party, and Mahatma Gandhi. Through thematic essays and detailed discussions of his works, this book argues that, complex and contradictory, Ruskin’s ideas are of urgent importance today.


Distributed for the Yale Center for British Art


Exhibition Schedule:

Yale Center for British Art
(September 5–December 8, 2019)

Tim Barringer is Paul Mellon Professor of the History of Art, and Tara Contractor, Victoria Hepburn, and Judith Stapleton are PhD candidates in the History of Art Department at Yale University. Courtney Skipton Long is acting assistant curator of prints and drawings at the Yale Center for British Art.

EXHIBITION SCHEDULE

Yale Center for British Art
(September 5–December 8, 2019)

ISBN: 9780300246414
Publication Date: October 15, 2019
Publishing Partner: Distributed for the Yale Center for British Art
332 pages, 9 x 11 1/2
280 color illus.
ADDITIONAL MATERIALS
Men at Work

Art and Labour in Victorian Britain

Tim Barringer

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Frederic Leighton

Antiquity, Renaissance, Modernity

Edited by Tim Barringer and Elizabeth Prettejohn

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Art and Emancipation in Jamaica

Isaac Mendes Belisario and His Worlds

Tim Barringer, Gillian Forrester, and Barbaro Martinez Ruiz

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Landscape, Innovation, and Nostalgia

The Manton Collection of British Art

Edited by Jay A.

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On the Viewing Platform

The Panorama between Canvas and Screen

Edited by Katie Trumpener and Tim Barringer

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