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 ...

John Ruskin (1819-1900), a prominent English art critic of the Victorian era, discussed in his writings possibilities for the reconciliation of two adverse trends in British art of his time: the ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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.

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, ...

WHEN in the year 1843 appeared the first volume of Modern Painters, by a Graduate of Oxford, the world of English connoisseurship was ruled by conventional notions which are hardly now understood.

'Candid and earnest': the rise of the art critic in the early nineteenth century / Claire Wildsmith -- The 'dark clue' and the law of help: Ruskin, Turner, and the Liber Studiorum / Alan Davis -- ...