“I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now,” the critic wrote in a scathing review published in Fors Clavigera, his own monthly periodical aimed at working-class readers, “but never ...

James Abbott McNeill Whistler, "Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1" (Portrait of the Artist's Mother) (1871), oil on canvas (all images courtesy Pegasus Books) Paul Thomas Murphy’s fluent and ...

Planning a movie night with 'The Passion of John Ruskin' on your favorite screen? Here are a few important points to remember about the drama flick. The Passion of John Ruskin starring Mark McKinney, ...

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.

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 ...

John Ruskin was way ahead of his time – recognising climate change nearly 150 years ago. A new exhibition at Sheffield’s Millennium Gallery shines a new light on his findings. Catherine Scott reports.

IN the preface to the fifth and last volume of Modern Painters Ruskin gives a brief statement of " matters which had employed or interrupted ” him between 1855 and 1860. The great variety of these ...

John Ruskin became acquainted with his wife through a loan which he made to her father, and his noted generosity no doubt appealed to her and it seems that she married him more out of gratitude than ...

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 ...