“For a man (Ruskin) who never so much as darkened these shores, British art and social critic John Ruskin cast a long shadow on 19th and early 20th-century America.” Ruskin Art Club’s executive director will lecture on the remarkable (and remarkably under-reported) influence John Ruskin had on American art movements and arts education in 19th-century America and on stateside social and utopian communities in the early 20th century. While the talk will trace the outlines of Ruskin’s broad influence, the focus will be on ways in which the myth of California as a theater of social redemption in the decades after the Civil War fostered widespread interest in Ruskinian idealism.
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