Ruskin and Environment

Ruskin and Environment PDF Author: Michael Wheeler
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719043772
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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Book Description
Best known today as an art critic and social theorist, John Ruskin (1819-1900) was also an acute observer and recorder of the natural environment, and of the impact of Victorian industrialisation and urbanisation upon it. He argued passionately against railways and tourism, river pollution and acid rain, and as passionately for the care of ancient buildings and improved sanitation in urban slums.