How To Use Ruskin In A Sentence
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Finally, according to this article, it is obviously that William Morris and John Ruskin are not only the leader of the Arts and Crafts Movement in England, but also the pioneer of the modern design.
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He liked the stately monuments much more than he liked Gibbon or Ruskin; he loved their dignity; their unity; their scale; their lines; their lights and shadows; their decorative sculpture; but he was even less conscious than they of the force that created it all, the Virgin, the Woman, by whose genius the stately monuments of superstition were built, through which she was expressed.
The Dynamo and the Virgin (1900)
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They remembered their Ruskinian youth, and the confidence with which they would once have condemned it; and they had a sense of recreance in now admiring it; but they certainly admired it, and it remained for them the supreme expression of that time-soul, mundane, courtly, aristocratic, flattering, which once influenced the art of the whole world, and which had here so curiously found its apotheosis in a city remote from its native place and under a rule sacerdotally vowed to austerity.
Their Silver Wedding Journey — Volume 3
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This is the first exhibition devoted to Ruskin's engagement with printmaking examining his use of various methods, etching, woodcut, mezzotint and steel and copper engraving.
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People like the Victorian reformer John Ruskin argued that the working classes should be included in education, so that all could appreciate the wonders of human intellectual endeavour.
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Many intellectual lights of the day were attracted to the movement: writers Tennyson and John Ruskin, philosopher William James, Nobel Prize-winning physiologist Charles Richet, prime ministers W.E. Gladstone and Arthur Balfour, and especially Frederick Myers, the inventor of the word "telepathy," and Trinity College professor Henry Sidgwick.
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When Walter was courting India, he spoke to her one night of Ruskin (she was impressed), but by middle age he reads only mystery novels, ‘as soporifics.’
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Here too in one of these small hamlets through which we passed Ruskin with a gang of his pupils in flannels started roadmaking, and for days and weeks were to be seen at their arduous task of digging and excavation, toiling and moiling with pick, spade, and barrow, while
From John O'Groats to Land's End
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Mr. Ruskin bade men "go to Nature in all singleness of heart, and walk with her laboriously and trustingly, having no other thought but how best to penetrate her meaning, _rejecting nothing, selecting nothing and scorning nothing_;" and Mr. Hamerton was literally obeying him when he exiled himself for five years in a hut on an island in a bleak Scotch lake to learn faithfully to portray the shores of that single lake.
Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878
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In his description, Ruskin does not refer directly to slavery (for which he has often been criticised) but through his own vivid word picture shows how Turner made an unbeautiful subject beautiful.
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John Ruskin and the Lakeland Arts Revival 1880-1920, a sewn-section demy octavo paperback of 288 pages with a full-colour cover, will be published on 6 April 2004 at £14.95.
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More than a century ago, English economist John Ruskin observed that the same economic system that creates glittering wealth also spawns what he called illth — poverty, pollution, despair, illness.
Capitalism 3.0~ Chapter 1
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Ruskin did not altogether fail to indicate how this concern to ethicize manufacture and exchange can go in an egalitarian direction.
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As far as the notion of functionalism in architecture is concerned, it cannot be assumed that such ideas refer back to Ruskinian theories.
Ruskin's Originality
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The critic Roger Shattuck, alluding to a famous remark by John Ruskin, argued that the wise museumgoer strives to look at works of art "with as innocent an eye as one can attain.
Too Much of a Great Thing
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A research agenda that inherently recognizes this connection between northern ‘wealth’ and southern ‘illth’ [what John Ruskin referred to as the opposite of wealth] will go a long way towards equitable and sustainable development.
Ecosystems, poverty, and the consumption elephant
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One day, finding I had no paper to draw on, I stole from the attic a stack of exquisite flower-drawings, almost certainly by Ruskin himself, and proceeded to rub them out.
An Interview with Diana Wynne Jones
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The new tower appears in Bayard's photograph of 1851, yet Ruskin's spandrel is just visible - still unscathed.
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The “blue socialist” or “arts and crafts” tradition kicked off by people like William Cobbett, John Ruskin, Carlyle and William Morris and later taken up and radicalized in a leftwardly way by the Guild Socialists and the Christian Socialists.
Open thread on: localism, decentralism, anarchism, thick conceptions of libertarianism, and the U.S. Constitution
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It is too late to Ruskinize their civilization.
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About a third of the paintings in the collection are student donations or Ruskin cast-offs and have a distinctly youthful and accessible appeal that helps many of them to find a home each year.
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The famous bankruptcy sale in Tite Street after the Ruskin trial and a farthing damages.
WHISTLER IN THE DARK
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Thistle as the emblem of Scotland in Ruskin's "Proserpina," pp. 135-139.
The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare
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Here, instead of trying to explain the music factitiously by nebulous social ideals, Taruskin shows specifically how the two operas worked within their societies, the solemn ceremony of Orfeo contrasted with the sensational and even pornographic aspect of Poppea.
From the Troubadours to Frank Sinatra
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People like the Victorian reformer John Ruskin argued that the working classes should be included in education, so that all could appreciate the wonders of human intellectual endeavour.
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Chase argued that American abundance produced "illth," a term he had borrowed from the nineteenth-century British gothicist John Ruskin, who argued that capitalist wealth produced social and mental disorders.
TELOSscope: The Telos Press blog
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Yeah, the name is uh Ruskin, Barry Ruskin of the Giant Building Machinery Inc.
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And the " city of marble... paved with emeralds ", as English art historian John Ruskin described it, welcomed the travelers with open arms.
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Old friends were failing, such as Stanfield, Lewis, and Roberts: but new men were growing up, among whom Ruskin welcomed G.D. Leslie, F. Goodall, J.C. Hook, -- who had come out of his "Pre-Raphaelite measles" into the healthy naturalism of "Luff Boy!
The Life of John Ruskin
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Even so censorious a critic as Ruskin saw them as useful in an age hungry for popular information.
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Ruskin Place is Seaside's ‘artist colony,’ with mixed-use buildings and a lawn for the town's repertory theater performances and art shows.
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It's about John Ruskin's unconsummated marriage to the Countess Euphemia, or Effie.
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Ruskin, from whom we continue to quote, says: It never stops at crusts or ashes, or outward images of any kind, but ploughing them all aside, plunges at once into the very central fiery heart; its function and gift are the getting at the root; its nature and dignity depend on its holding things always _by the heart_.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 4, October, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
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However, Ruskin was a complex and contradictory figure who must always be viewed in context.
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As for eudaemonism, sure, I follow Professor Long on this point although, my conception of virtue is colored by my reading Augustine, the theurgic neoplatonists, and the “Blue Socialist” tradition of William Cobbett and John Ruskin.
Abortion on demand and without apology (Kiwi edition)
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I've gotten about halfway thru the 550-page 2nd volume of the Library Edition; I've finished, that is, all the poems he formally published & collected during his lifetime (the collection of record, which more or less signalled the close of Ruskin's already negelected poetic career, came out in 1850, when he was 31), & have just embarked on the real live "juvenilia," starting with the bits of precocious doggerel he was cranking out at 7 or so ....
GotPoetry.com News
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Yeah, the name is uh Ruskin, Barry Ruskin of the Giant Building Machinery Inc.
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Gothic pure, authoritative, unsurpassable, and unaccusable… not only the best, but the very first thing done perfectly in its manner by northern Christendom," said no less an authority than John Ruskin.
The Guardian World News
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Morris Ruskin, co-partner of Shoreline confirmed ‘We are reinventing the franchise by taking it back to the edge and style of the original comic book.’
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When he is in gadfly mode, as in this new study, he entertains and enlightens about writers including Kant and Ruskin (reserving an especially acidic tone for Jeannette Winterson).
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‘A single villa can mark a landscape’, said Ruskin, ‘and dethrone a dynasty of hills’, rightly enough.
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For both Ruskin and Eliot, the hoarder is a grotesque creature, whose great economic mistake-the insistence on the unalloyed benefit of saving-is Victorian received wisdom taken to an extreme.
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In 1853, while painting his portrait in Scotland, Millais fell in love with Ruskin's wife Effie, the victim of an unconsummated marriage, whom he wed in 1855.
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What evidence can be sharked up to show that it is any more a holy or an inspired book than any book of Thomas Carlyle's, or John Ruskin's, or
God and my Neighbour
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The English art critic John Ruskin (1819-1900) distinguished '' aesthesis '' - a kind of 'animal consciousness of the pleasantness' of the object - from '' theoria '' - the sense that beauty has a spiritual core.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
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Vienna lectures of 1810 foretoken Ruskin's philippics against railways and factories.
A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century
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The gift comprised other valuable material as well, including Arthur's memoirs, selections from his correspondence with John Ruskin, and letters to Joseph Severn from the Cowden Clarkes, H. Buxton Forman, Fanny Keats de Llanos, Mary Shelley, and Edward Trelawny.
New Letters from Charles Brown to Joseph Severn
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Robert Craft replies: Richard Taruskin, the meticulous scholar I first met eight years ago and through correspondence came to know and like, has lately turned into a sloppy, thersitical journalist, more judgmental than Dr. Johnson.
'Jews and Geniuses': An Exchange
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They remembered their Ruskinian youth, and the confidence with which they would once have condemned it; and they had a sense of recreance in now admiring it; but they certainly admired it, and it remained for them the supreme expression of that time-soul, mundane, courtly, aristocratic, flattering, which once influenced the art of the whole world, and which had here so curiously found its apotheosis in a city remote from its native place and under
Complete March Family Trilogy
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All the projects are part of an experimental partnership between a charity (New Deal of the Mind), the state (the Arts Council and the Department for Work and Pensions) and the private sector (Ixion, a training company owned by Anglia Ruskin University that acts as the financial guarantor).
A creative alternative to the dole
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Back then, young men and women architects working in the spirit of Ruskin and Morris produced a style that still looks convincing a century on, proving that homes for those at the very bottom of the property ladder do not have to be artless.
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Poverty, pollution, despair, and ill-health — what John Ruskin called illth — is the dark side of capitalism.
Capitalism 3.0~ Chapter 1
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Emma Thompson's latest film project – a love triangle featuring the 19th century poet and critic John Ruskin – is reported to have been placed in jeopardy by a New York copyright case.
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Ruskin's View, of which the poet waxed lyrical in 1816, is worth a visit and takes in the sweep of the river Lune and nearby Calf Top and Crag Hill.
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The one can no more block up the wind-pipes of living dogs and watch their dying convulsions, and the other can no longer lead the minds of youths and maidens to seek and find beauty in the visible world about them and recognise in it the hand of God -- but the world has known which of these men led the youth of Oxford to look up and which to look down, and to-day a merciful oblivion covers the names and doings of this triumphant vivisector and his valiant supporters, while to the farthest inch of the English-speaking realms the writings of Ruskin are treasured in a million homes and his name acclaimed with grateful reverence.
Great Testimony against scientific cruelty
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It is Ruskin's contention that the essential Dickensian hero is the ironmaster.
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Old friends were failing, such as Stanfield, Lewis, and Roberts: but new men were growing up, among whom Ruskin welcomed G.D. Leslie, F. Goodall, J.C. Hook, ” who had come out of his “Pre-Raphaelite measles” into the healthy naturalism of “Luff Boy!” ”
The Life of John Ruskin
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He is a dreamer, a schemer, but truth is young Ruskin is puny, skinny and, in the tradition of geeky leads, he wears glasses.
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bossiness" of effect, so much approved by Ruskin, they are very uneven.
Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance
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Richard Taruskin: Stravinsky and the Russian traditions: a biography of the works through Mavra (Oxford, 1996); idem: Defining Russia musically: historical and hermeneutical essays (Princeton, 1997).
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And it is, perhaps, the principal admirableness of the Gothic schools of architecture’, says Ruskin, that they thus receive the results of the labour of inferior minds; and out of fragments full of imperfection, and betraying that imperfection in every touch, indulgently raise up a stately and unaccusable whole.’
Wildwood
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TOM RUSKIN, SPOKESMAN FOR DANIEL SCHULER (via telephone): Well, it ` s-- it ` s highlighting a tragedy in Daniel ` s life, the Bastardis ` life, the Longos ` life and the Hances `.
CNN Transcript Oct 20, 2009
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On the other hand, John Ruskin 1819-1900 despised the Italian baroque painting of the 17th century - the seicento.
Two contrasting views of the Italian Seicento
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An essay on Leonardo was possibly intended as a refutation of Ruskin, whose emphasis on the moral value of art Pater directly opposed.
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Paradise is easier for Sally to work with because Ruskin had already recognised it in a lush green flat space with heavenly views over Coniston and hills.
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There will be demonstrations and exhibitions of Ruskin lace, spinning and weaving, wood-turning and many others.
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Ruskin, Professor, on _Punch's_ representations of the poor, 3; on _Punch_ Staff as citizens, 111; on "General Février," 176; on _Punch's_ politics, 197; on "John Bull," 206; on the "Song of the Shirt," 334;
The History of "Punch"
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What Ruskin, the realist, in his "Modern Painters" describes as "blottesque" was at that time looked upon by both teachers and students as the one and only means by which white paper could be properly stained.
Outdoor Sketching Four Talks Given before the Art Institute of Chicago; The Scammon Lectures, 1914
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Pupils at Ruskin Junior School sang carols and songs.
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Werner Reinhart, who was on equally good terms with Stravinsky and Schoenberg (but bigotedly in the case of Schoenberg, as Mr. Taruskin's quotation exposes), may have been responsible, if inadvertently, since he seems to have gone back and forth between the composers.
'Jews and Geniuses': An Exchange
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Ruskin, having formed the pleasant little original design of abolishing the difference between Popery and Protestantism, through the persuasive influence of his own special eloquence, set forth his views upon the matter in a book which he termed a treatise "on the construction of sheepfolds.
The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author
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When the National Gallery bought two paintings by the baroque artist Guido Reni, Ruskin condemned the purchase so fiercely that the gallery did not dare buy another seicento work for over half a century.
Two contrasting views of the Italian Seicento
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It is too late to Ruskinize their civilization.
