Ruskin and Modernism

The extent of John Ruskin''s influence has long been acknowledged, though his impact on the development of Anglo-American modernism has received little systematic attention. In this volume, published to mark the centenary of Ruskin''s death, a group of international scholars consider what is often an awkward and conflicted relation. Ruskin''s voluminous writings are seen to shelter an incipient modernism whose antipathy to a degraded modernity, powerfully predicts a major current within the work of the new century.