John Ruskin

Biographic Data

ID1102871
NAMEJohn Ruskin
GIVEN NAMESJohn
FAMILY NAMERuskin
SIGNATURERUSKIN J
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS31
TOTAL CITATIONS1
AUTHOR COUNT31
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1849
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • The Lamp of Memory (1849)

    John RuskinCHAPTERArt and Its Significance2026

  • The Lamp of Memory (1849)

    John RuskinBOOKArt and Its Significance2026Cited by: 1

    John Ruskin overturned Victorian society's ideas about art and architecture, arguing that ancient buildings must be conserved for their deep, mystical links with the past and that creative design is essential - not for financial gain, but to communicate eternal human truths. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution…

  • The Nature of Gothic

    John RuskinBOOKThe Nature of Gothic2025

  • John Ruskin: Præterita

    A O J Cockshut, John RuskinBOOKPraeterita2019

  • The King of the Golden River or The Black Brothers: A Tale of Stiria

    John RuskinCHAPTERVictorian Fairy Tales2016

    Chapter I How The Agricultural System Of The Black Brothers Was Interfered With By South-West Wind, Esquire In a secluded and mountainous part of Stiria,* there was, in old time, a valley of the most surprising and luxuriant fertility. It was surrounded,...

  • Works of John Ruskin: Volume 28, Fors Clavigera IV-VI

    Alexander Wedderburn, Edward Tyas Cook et al.BOOKWorks of John Ruskin2015

  • Works of John Ruskin: Volume 18, Sesame and Lilies

    Alexander Wedderburn, Edward Tyas Cook et al.BOOKSesame and Lilies2015

  • A vast machine: Computer models, climate data, and the politics of global warming

    Open AccessP N Edwards, Leo Hickman et al.REVIEWCanadian Geographies /…2015

  • Praeterita

    John Ruskin, Francis O'GormanBOOKPraeterita2012

    "John Ruskin (1819-1900) was a towering figure of the nineteenth century: an art critic who spoke up for J. M. W. Turner and for the art of the Italian Middle Ages; a social critic whose aspiration for, and disappointment in, the future of Great Britain was expressed in some of the most vibrant prose in the language. Ruskin's incomplete autobiography was written between periods of serious mental illness at the end of his career, and is an eloquen…

  • The Campo Santo

    John RuskinCHAPTERPraeterita2012

    104. The summer’s work of 1844, so far from advancing the design of ‘Modern Painters,’ had thrown me off it—first into fine botany, then into difficult geology, and lastly, as that entry about the Madonna shows, into a fit of figure study which...

  • Works of John Ruskin: The Elements of Drawing, The Elements of Perspective, and the Laws of Fésole

    Alexander Wedderburn, Edward Tyas Cook et al.BOOKWorks of John Ruskin2012

  • The Works of John Ruskin

    Open AccessJohn Ruskin, Edward Tyas Cook et al.BOOKWorks of John Ruskin2010

    The influence of John Ruskin (1819–1900), both on his own time and on artistic and social developments in the twentieth century, cannot be over-stated. He changed Victorian perceptions of art, and was the main influence behind 'Gothic revival' architecture. As a social critic, he argued for the improvement of the condition of the poor, and against the increasing mechanisation of work in factories, which he believed was dull and soul-destroying. T…

  • The Works of John Ruskin

    Open AccessJohn Ruskin, Edward Tyas Cook et al.BOOKSesame and Lilies2010

    The influence of John Ruskin (1819–1900), both on his own time and on artistic and social developments in the twentieth century, cannot be over-stated. He changed Victorian perceptions of art, and was the main influence behind 'Gothic revival' architecture. As a social critic, he argued for the improvement of the condition of the poor, and against the increasing mechanisation of work in factories, which he believed was dull and soul-destroying. T…

  • The Complete Works of John Ruskin

    Open AccessJohn RuskinCHAPTERWorks of John Ruskin2010

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  • The Works of John Ruskin

    Open AccessJohn Ruskin, Edward Tyas Cook et al.BOOKWorks of John Ruskin2010

    The influence of John Ruskin (1819–1900), both on his own time and on artistic and social developments in the twentieth century, cannot be over-stated. He changed Victorian perceptions of art, and was the main influence behind 'Gothic revival' architecture. As a social critic, he argued for the improvement of the condition of the poor, and against the increasing mechanisation of work in factories, which he believed was dull and soul-destroying. T…

  • The Mystery of Life and Its Arts

    Open AccessJohn RuskinCHAPTERSesame and Lilies2010

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  • The Laws of Fésole

    Open AccessJohn RuskinCHAPTERWorks of John Ruskin2010

    1. The art of man is the expression of his rational and disciplined delight in the forms and laws of the Creation of which he forms a part

  • Cambridge Library Collection

    Open AccessJohn RuskinOTHER2010

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  • Selected Writings

    John Ruskin, Dinah BirchBOOKSelected writings2009

    ‘To be taught to write or to speak - but what is the use of speaking, if you have nothing to say? To be taught to think - nay, what is the use of being able to think, if you have nothing to think of? But to be taught to see is to gain word and thought at once, and both true.’ Ruskin was the most powerful and influential critic of the nineteenth century. He wrote about nature, art, architecture, politics, history, myth, and much besides; all his w…

  • Modern Painters, II (1846)

    John RuskinCHAPTERSelected writings2009

    Of Imagination Associative When an unimaginative painter is about to draw a tree, (and we will suppose him, for better illustration of the point in question, to have good feeling and correct knowledge of the nature of trees,) he probably lays on his paper...

  • Unto This Last (1860)

    John RuskinBOOKSelected writings2009

    The Roots of Honour Among the delusions which at different periods have possessed themselves of the minds of large masses of the human race, perhaps the most curious—certainly the least creditable—is the modern soi- disant science of political economy, based on the

  • Sesame and Lilies

    Jhon Rusin, John Ruskin et al.BOOKSesame and Lilies2008

  • An Excerpt from “Ad Valorem,” the Closing Essay of Unto This Last

    Open AccessJohn RuskinARTICLEOrganization & Environment2000

  • Recent Critical Articles

    John RuskinARTICLEReligion and the Arts1998

  • "My First Real Tutor": John Ruskin and Charles Eliot Norton

    Leslie J Workman, John L Bradley et al.ARTICLEThe New England Quarterly1989