About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 45. Chapters: British architectural historians, English architecture writers, Scottish architecture writers, John Ruskin, Nigel Tranter, Anthony Blunt, Peter Nicholson, Nikolaus Pevsner, Dan Cruickshank, Colin Rowe, Lucinda Lambton, K. A. C. Creswell, Ernest Binfield Havell, Reyner Banham, Dennis Sharp, John Gibbs, David Watkin, William Howitt, Christopher Hussey, John Henry Parker, Lawrence Weaver, James Lees-Milne, Howard Colvin, Andor Harvey Gomme, Eric de Mare, Ian Nairn, Kenneth Frampton, Gervase Jackson-Stops, Gavin Stamp, Charles Handley-Read, Edward Hubbard, John Grundy, Charles Brett, Roger Connah, Curt DiCamillo, Rudolf Wittkower, Sidney Heath, Banister Fletcher, John Summerson, J. Mordaunt Crook, Deyan Sudjic, W. Douglas Simpson, Neil Leach, Thomas Henry Dyer, Colin McWilliam, James Stevens Curl, Alistair John Rowan, Joseph Rykwert, William Henry Leeds, Edwin Heathcote, Henry Avray Tipping, Adrian Tinniswood, Frank Arneil Walker, George Richardson, Jonathan Glancey, Adrian Forty. Excerpt: John Ruskin (8 February 1819 - 20 January 1900) was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, a draughtsman/watercolourist, a prominent social thinker and philanthropist. He believed in the interconnectedness of nature, art and society. He wrote on subjects ranging from geology to architecture, myth to ornithology, botany to political economy. He was hugely influential in the latter half of the nineteenth century up to the First World War, and after a period of relative decline, his reputation has steadily improved since the 1960s with the publication of numerous academic studies of his work. Ruskin first came to widespread attention with the first volume of Modern Painters (1843), an extended essay in defence of the work of J. M. W. Turner in which he argued that the principal role of the artist is "truth to nature.."..
