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Ruskin
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Ruskin
John. 1819--1900, English art critic and social reformer. He was a champion of the Gothic Revival and the Pre-Raphaelites and saw a close connection between art and morality. From about 1860 he argued vigorously for social and economic planning. His works include Modern Painters (1843--60), The Stones of Venice (1851--53), Unto this Last (1862), Time and Tide (1867), and Fors Clavigera (1871--84)


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a) Neo-Classical b) Art Deco c) Ruskinian Gothic 3) Which Teesside company started life as Head Ashby in 1840?
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Meier proceeds to explain his role as an artist-architect, in the Ruskinian sense, who is also a sculptor and a painter, not just a builder.
White goods: Richard Meier, the original White God, shows how far ... by Richards, Ivor / The Architectural Review
But the crucial revelation of this exhibition is a final group of late, elegiac landscapes: No longer Ruskinian essays in fanatical empiricism, they are melancholy symbolist explorations of the wild emptiness of the Scottish highlands.
Modern Painter: Tim Barringer on John Everett Millais by Barringer, Tim / Artforum International
 
 
 
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