Books by James S. Dearden
“A book that’s like a pictorial potted biography of Ruskin, based on those portraits” Read more...
Michael Glover, Artists & Art Critic
Interviews where books by James S. Dearden were recommended
The best books on John Ruskin, recommended by Michael Glover
As a believer in the humanising nature of proper work, the virtues of sustained attention and the value of aesthetics as the keystone to ideals for a truly prosperous society, John Ruskin’s abiding concerns are still very much with us today. On the bicentenary of this eminent Victorian’s birth, Michael Glover, author of the idiosyncratic Ruskin Dictionary, explains why we should still be reading Ruskin closely in the twenty first century.