Architect: John Ruskin
Auerbach: Stone Adversaries – Ruskin’s Rocks, Hejduk’s Diamonds
24 October 2016
Auerbach: Stone Adversaries – Ruskin’s Rocks, Hejduk’s Diamonds24 October 2016
Paper by Anthony Auerbach read at the Architectural Drawings Symposium, Shatwell, 24 April 2016 I would like to introduce two items from this collection, or rather two collections our host has brought together, whose cohabitation here prompted me to consider whether they are related and whether the relation can be… Read More
The Stones of John Ruskin
1 August 2016
The Stones of John Ruskin1 August 2016
By Karen Eve Johnson, Nicholas Olsberg and John Ruskin
What follows is a selection from the collection of minerals given to and arranged for St. David’s School, Reigate, by John Ruskin, who prepared a full printed Catalogue of the Collection of Siliceous Minerals, dated 1883. The collection is still largely intact. Stones were important to Ruskin’s view of architecture.… Read More
Ruskin: Fairy Tales
22 April 2020
Ruskin: Fairy Tales22 April 2020
By John Ruskin
We all have a general and sufficient idea of imagination, and of its work with our hands and our hearts: we understand it, I suppose, as the imagining or picturing of new things in our thoughts; and we always show an involuntary respect for this power, wherever we can recognise… Read More
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