William Morris Inspired by the writings of social philosopher John Ruskin, William Morris (1834-1896) defined art as “the expression by man of his pleasure in labor," and dedicated himself to art ...

Created in partnership with the William Morris Gallery in London, Pioneers: John Ruskin, William Morris and the Bauhaus looks at how these innovators shaped our understanding of art and design.

Josef Hoffmann and Koloman Moser founded the Wiener Werkstätte in 1903. The two Viennese found inspiration in Britain, where the Englishmen John Ruskin, William Morris, and Charles Robert Ashbee, and ...

Ruskin enlisted readily in this effort, for already his thoughts were turned to those social questions which were gradually to become the chief objects of his interest during his later years.

After blockbuster art deco and art nouveau shows, the Victoria & Albert museum in London is to stage the country's most comprehensive exhibition on the Arts and Crafts movement started by John ...

William reassured Ruskin that “I feel ashamed at having to say anything else about it, as if the idea was an original one of mine, or anybody else’s but yours: but I suppose it is of service, or may ...

However, Oxford significantly influenced his life. Whilst still a student at Oxford University in the 1850s, he became a keen reader of John Ruskin, who had great enthusiasm for the Gothic style ...

In doing so he had taken the same path as had his early influences, Thomas Carlyle and John Ruskin. Political understanding developed through Morris’s increasing participation in public debate from ...

John Ruskin is having his moment — and not before time. For decades his reputation as the pre-eminent Victorian critic of art and society was a matter of purely historical interest, manifesting ...

The power of seeing was the bedrock of John Ruskin’s philosophy. In the bicentenary of his birth, a revelatory exhibition at Two Temple Place in London opens out the idea and makes it manifest through ...

However, Oxford significantly influenced his life. Whilst still a student at Oxford University in the 1850s, he became a keen reader of John Ruskin, who had great enthusiasm for the Gothic style ...