![]() ![]() It was during that decade that he faced an emerging opposition through Walter Pater - an aesthetic thinker and professor at Oxford, who developed a new doctrine influenced by the French idea of ‘l'art pour l'art’. ![]() Although controversial for his age, by the 1870s Ruskin became one of the most revered art critics, praised in intellectual circles all over the United Kingdom. Next chapter focuses on Ruskin's most famous works and analyses the ideas and philosophy behind them. Ruskin initially disagreed with its ideas, but later became one of its most prominent figures. At the time, art in Britain was dominated by the movement called The Gothic Revival. It was the period strongly influenced by the new political ideas and by the industrial revolution, but it was also the peak of British colonial power and the start of queen Victoria's reign. ![]() The paper starts by describing the historical context in which John Ruskin appeared on the British art scene. ![]()
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