When he is in gadfly mode, as in this new study, he entertains and enlightens about writers including Kant and Ruskin. |
But it already revealed that he was a follower of Ruskin and the Pre-Raphaelite style of landscape. |
Along with Ruskin, Pater is the late-nineteenth-century English art historian whose writing and arguments remain of living interest. |
An essay on Leonardo was possibly intended as a refutation of Ruskin, whose emphasis on the moral value of art Pater directly opposed. |
Even so censorious a critic as Ruskin saw them as useful in an age hungry for popular information. |
Ruskin did not altogether fail to indicate how this concern to ethicize manufacture and exchange can go in an egalitarian direction. |