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May 14, 2024 · John Ruskin, English critic of art, architecture, and society who was a gifted painter, a distinctive prose stylist, and an important example of the Victorian Sage, or Prophet: a writer of polemical prose who seeks to cause widespread cultural and social change.
3 days ago · Rustin is one of two men who have both participated in the Penn Relays and had a school, West Chester Rustin High School, named in his honor that participates in the relays. In 1985, Haverford College awarded Rustin an honorary doctorate in law .
May 15, 2024 · Onyeka Igwe and Jesse Darling have been appointed Associate Professors at the Ruskin School of Art, and full-time Tutorial Fellows at Lady Margaret Hall and St Anne's College. Both will begin their appointments in the forthcoming academic year.
4 days ago · Ruskin was closely associated with Oxford during his life; he was an undergraduate at Christ Church from 1836 – 1842 and, 27 years after graduating, was appointed as the first Slade Professor of Fine Art in 1869. Many buildings in the city still bear his name. One such is the Ruskin School of Art, Univ’s neighbour on the High Street since 1975.
May 29, 2024 · When Harvard introduced art history into the American academic curriculum in 1874, by way of Charles Eliot Norton, John Ruskin’s scholarship and teaching provided the model. This is the first of two articles about the foundation of art history as a discipline in the United States.
3 days ago · Founded as the Cambridge School of Art by John Ruskin in 1858. Renamed Cambridgeshire College of Arts and Technology in 1960. Merged into Anglia Higher Education College in 1989.
May 31, 2024 · Ruskin School of Art Library The Ruskin School of Art Library contains a small but good collection of key catalogues, texts and periodicals on the history of art (drawing, colour, perception and perspective) and especially modern and contemporary art.
