Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education
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pp. 12-13
Abstract
The Centennial of the death of the English writer, John Ruskin (1819-1900), is being observed this year in numerous exhibitions and conferences in England, the United States, Italy, Japan. These celebrations are testimony to his gifts as a painter, his enduring influence as an art and social critic, and his warnings as an environmentalist. During his lifetime, the Victorians knew him primarily as a writer on art and architecture-The Stones of Venice (1851-1853) leading to a rediscovery of the beauty of Venice and early Italian painters like Giotto, and such successors as Tintoretto and Botticelli. In recent years we have given more attention to his criticism of society and now his influence as an environmentalist.
Recommended Citation
Van Akin Burd
(2000)
"John Ruskin A Lesser Known- Environmentalist,"
Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education: Vol. 12:
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2, Article 5.
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