John Ruskin
Welcome to The Ruskin Society
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Our Vision
Founded in 1997, the Ruskin Society celebrates the life, work and legacy of the Victorian art critic and social thinker John Ruskin. We organize a regular programme of events in the UK and exist for everyone with an interest in John Ruskin.
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Support Us
The Ruskin Society is a voluntary organization funded by its members. Join the Ruskin Society for £15 a year and help support our work.
Birthday event
The annual birthday event will be in February 2017.
Winner of the 2015 Ruskin Society Book Prize
The Ruskin Society is very pleased to announce that the 2015 Book Prize has been awarded to Ken and Jenny Jacobson for Carrying off the Palaces: John Ruskin’s Lost Daguerreotypes (published by Quaritch). The award was announced on Saturday 6 February at the Society’s annual celebration of John Ruskin’s birthday. Announcing the award, Jeffrey Richards (president of the Ruskin Society) praised the book’s outstanding contribution to Ruskin scholarship. He also commended the quality of the two other shortlisted books, Andrew Ballantyne’s John Ruskin (Reaktion Books) and Caroline Ings-Chambers’ Louisa Waterford and John Ruskin ‘For you have not falsely praised’ (Legenda).
Books
Selected Writings. Oxford World’s Classics. John Ruskin.
On Art And Life - John Ruskin.
John Ruskin, Henry James and the Shropshire Lads. Cynthia Gamble.
The Golden Age of Pantomime: Slapstick, Spectacle and Subversion in Victorian England. Jeffrey Richards.