Ruskin, Turner and the Pre-Raphaelites By Robert Hewison With contributions by Ian Warrell and Stephen Wildman John Ruskin was the first critic to make his reputation by championing contemporary art: first by defending Turner, in his book Modern Painters, and then by giving his decisive support to the avant-garde, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. He became on of the defining voices of the nineteenth century, engaging not only in the discussion of art and architecture, but the social issues of his age.

Ruskin, Turner and The-Pre-Raphaelites, which marks the centenary of Ruskin's death, recovers his role as a contemporary critic by bringing together many of the masterpieces that he wrote about, and exploring his personal links with some of the greatest painters of the Victorian period. He was also an artist in his own right, and Ruskin's finest drawings are used to demonstrate the arguments of a critic for whom 'All Great Art is Praise'.

Contents

• Introductory Essay: The Beautiful and the True by Robert Hewison
• Catalogue by Robert Hewison, Ian Warrell and Stephen Wildman
• Introduction
• Youth
• Learning from Turner
• Venice and the Nature of Gothic
• Patron and Collector
• Ruskin's Drawings, 1840-1882
• Ruskin's Pre-Raphaelites
• A New Era of Art
• The Storm Cloud of the Nineteenth Century
• Conclusion
• Chronology

Authors
Robert Hewison is the 2000 Slade Professor of Art at Oxford University. Ian Warrell is a curator at the Tate Gallery. Stephen Wildman is curator of the Ruskin Library at Lancaster University.

Details
Price during the duration of the exhibition £25.00
Binding paperback
Pages 288pp
Size 297 x 235 mm
Illustrations: 250 colour, 10 black and white
ISBN 1 85437 303 X

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