Ruskin

[ruhs-kin]

noun

1. John, 1819–1900, English author, art critic, and social reformer.

Ruskin

/ ˈrʌskɪn /

noun

1. John . 1819–1900, English art critic and social reformer. He was a champion of the Gothic Revival and the Pre-Raphaelites and saw a close connection between art and morality. From about 1860 he argued vigorously for social and economic planning. His works include Modern Painters (1843–60), The Stones of Venice (1851–53), Unto this Last (1862), Time and Tide (1867), and Fors Clavigera (1871–84)

Other Word Forms

• Ruskinian adjective
• Ruskinean adjective

Example Sentences

After being recovered and restored, and with a lengthy ownership row settled, it was handed to Coniston's Ruskin Museum last year.

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Tracy Hodgson, director of Coniston's Ruskin Museum which normally houses Bluebird in a dedicated wing, said the event was an opportunity to see a "very special piece of British high-speed motoring history".

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But Professor Tanya Horeck, an expert on digital culture and true crime from Anglia Ruskin University, says that social media has given those sentiments massive visibility, and helped them spread.

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In the settlement agreed in January, when he relinquished his claim, Mr Smith paid £25,000 towards the Ruskin Museum's legal costs.

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He left school four years later, though he subsequently studied at Ruskin College, a higher education institution in Oxford, and at the University of Hull, the city that became his home.

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