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Robert Hewison is one of the world's leading scholars of Ruskin. Here, in this dazzling collection, the reader finds illumination, surprise, and clarification on every page. Out of this book springs a living man and a living age. Francis O'Gorman, Saintsbury Professor of English Literature, University of Edinburgh

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Robert Hewison is a British cultural historian who has combined life-long study of John Ruskin with an active engagement with contemporary culture. He published his first book on Ruskin, John Ruskin: The Argument of The Eye, in 1976, and went on to curate Ruskin in Venice at the J. B. Speed Art Museum in Louiseville in 1978. He has edited two collections on Ruskin, New Approaches to Ruskin (1981) and Ruskin's Artists: Studies in the Victorian Visual Economy (2000). In 2000 he co-curated Ruskin, Turner, and the Pre-Raphaelites at Tate Britiain and in 2009 published Ruskin on Venice: The Paradise of Cities. He has held chairs at Lancaster University and City University London, and was Slade Professor of Fine Art at Oxford in 2000.

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