John Ruskin documentary

John Ruskin (8 February 1819 – 20 January 1900) was an English writer, philosopher, art historian, art critic and polymath of the Victorian era. He wrote on subjects as varied as geology, architecture, myth, ornithology, literature, education, botany and political economy.

John Ruskin documentary
2000

[jordananderson]

I've been thinking about Ruskin so much the past week, and here one of my favorite YouTube channels uploads a documentary! I love the shows you post.

[Jo-w]

What a joy to find your channel. Many Thanks. Your content is exceptional. Subscribed.😊

[lynnebarnes]

So, its clear what ruined his marriage, he wanted a child not a woman.

[artofmusic]

I honor and celebrate Ruskin's activism for social justice against the cruelties of the industrial revolution. But IMO his attempt to connect that with Gothic art was pure fantasy run amok. Gothic cathedrals were ornamented on the outside and glowing on the inside in order to hypnotize and manipulate the faithful into a reverential frame of mind. Nothing particularly humanistic or natural about that. To me St. Mark's is an amazing, unique mish-mash of styles to be marveled at, but the supreme example of architectural beauty lies right across the square: the loggia of Sansovino. It is not devoid of ornament, to the contrary. But it is ordered and rationally designed. Greco-Roman re-interpreted through the Renaissance. That kind of beauty has the power to bring order and peace to the inner life. I'm sure most people reading this will side with Ruskin, because we in the West are, subconsciously, still mired in Romanticism.

[JCPJCPJCP]

That he foresaw global warming is impressive.
That his parents hoped he would become poet laureate or the Archbishop of Canterbury is amusing, incredible, very difficult to imagine.
Short documentary. Nice to look at. I knew not much more than his name and vocation before seeing it.
Thanks again.

[carolinewaterstone]

This was superb. I used to walk through Ruskin park in Camberwell to snd from my digs to the hospital while training in the 70s. It was a beautiful template for the changing seasons 😃

[jamessinclair]

The BBC just can’t help themselves. Had to get a bit in about Ruskin foretelling ‘global warming’. Oh dear 😂😂😂😂

[emilyaetheris]

More like this please, thi is quality.

[Phyllida-rn]

His name is NOT forgotten. Don’t be so trite.

[carmellarkin]

I live quite close to Harristown House where Rose La Touché lived. What a sad life.

[paillette]

28:22 this is more Ruskin confabulation. If he had a realistic idea of what was entailed in building from Gothic back to the Pyramids, he’d know it wasn’t much different: repetition and ceaselessness.
He romanticized labor like this because he did none himself.

[michaelhenault]

Very eccentric. Is he the source for Thomas Mann's Death in Venice?

[liltick]

I want to see an Elie Faure one some day

[doreekaplan]

" shrank from the human form" is meaningless

[carolinemacrae]

I bet Rossetti spread the rumours about public hair phobia.
He was a bigot and had Turner's drawings burnt. If he was not allowed to destroy others work I would like him a lot more, bigot or not.he was interested in the innocence of children and let's face it the victorians married at about 14 years of age often. But he was a little boy romantically. He was threatened by eom3n. Hopefully not an abuser.

[vaunniethayer]

Who has a love affair with a ten year old?

[AndyLeMaitre]

Stopped watching at the words "Global Warming."