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 ...

Victorian polymath John Ruskin, a renowned writer and art critic, emphasized that quality is never accidental but the result of intelligent effort. His influential ideas, particularly from "Modern ...

“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 ...

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.

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...