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Reading Ruskin Writing.(John Ruskin)(Bibliography)
Magazine article from: Art in America; 11/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; Writer and artist John Ruskin was a towering yet discomfiting figure...swept Victorian London in the 1860s, John Ruskin would occasionally allow himself to...suddenly announced in a quavering voice: John Ruskin! John Ruskin! Do you wish to speak...
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John Ruskin: Selected Writings.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 7/1/2006; ; 692 words
; John Ruskin: Selected Writings. Ed. by DINAH BIRCH...The last twenty years have been kind to John Ruskin. Revisionist approaches to Victorian art...resolve this problem. But Dinah Birch's John Ruskin: Selected Writings nevertheless provides...
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Michael H. Lang. Designing Utopia: John Ruskin's Urban Vision for Britain and America.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Utopian Studies; 3/22/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...Rose, 1999. xv + 215 pp. $24.99. JOHN RUSKIN WAS A PROLIFIC WRITER and a committed...Designing Utopia, which concentrates on Ruskin's urban vision, Michael Lang does...He is conscious of the fact that Ruskin's own practical social experiments...
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Italian counterpoint: Henry James and John Ruskin in Florence.
Magazine article from: Victorian Newsletter; 3/22/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...criticism and social commentary of John Ruskin loomed large in the minds of many...in his essay Italy Revisited that Ruskin would never be fruitfully read in...passionate about Italy in general: Ruskin made twenty-three separate trips...
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The Desire of My Eyes: The Life and Work of John Ruskin.
Magazine article from: National Review; 1/28/1991; ; 606 words
; AMERICANS do not remember much about John Ruskin, although once he was nearly as influential...theoretical edifices. If we remember Ruskin at all, it is as a stereotype of...eponymous queen. And for Wolfgang Kemp, Ruskin's achievement was the efflorescence...
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'Who wants authority?' Ruskin as a dissenter.(John Ruskin)
Magazine article from: Yearbook of English Studies; 1/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; This article explores John Ruskin's relations with cultural authority...the fundamental literary paradigm of Ruskin's mature social polemic continues to...sermon. ********** 'Who wants authority?' Ruskin put this question in 'Science in her...
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The trouble with comfort: Christina Rossetti, John Ruskin, and Leafy Emotion.
Magazine article from: Yearbook of English Studies; 1/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; The use of the leaf image in Christina Rossetti and John Ruskin is expressive of their different attitudes towards human...writers: the first by Christina Rossetti, the second by John Ruskin. In her Christian poem 'A Better Resurrection' (1857...
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Portraits of Ruskin.(John Ruskin traveling exhibition)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques; 5/1/2000; ; 99 words
; A traveling exhibition entitled John Ruskin: The Seven Ages of Man is on view at the Ruskin Gallery in Sheffield from June 17 until August 28. It then moves to the Ruskin Library at Lancaster University from September...
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BRITAIN'S TATE GALLERY IS REORGANIZED AND THE OLD BUILDING IS RELAUNCHED WITH A MAGNIFICENT EXHIBITION WHICH CELEBRATES THE LIFE AND VISION OF JOHN RUSKIN, THE NATION'S GREATEST CRITIC. THE MILLENIUM WHEEL DOMINATES THE LONDON SKYLINE. SPECTRUM EXHIBITION, THE BEST OF FURNITURE DESIGN.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Architectural Review; 4/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; On New Year's Day 1844, John Ruskin's present from his father was Turner...sense, the picture is an emblem of Ruskin's life and character: in the swirling...society, art and nature which informed Ruskin throughout his life. The new exhibition...
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John Ruskin at Salander-O'Reilly.(New York, New York)(Review of Exhibitions)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Art in America; 3/1/1997; ; 447 words
; John Ruskin remains one of 19th-century art history...to defend the ideas of quality and taste. Ruskin aspired in his youth to a career as an artist...selection of drawings and watercolors is Ruskin the esthete rather than Ruskin the moralist...
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