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John Ruskin

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The Victorian art and social critic whose writing gave the craft revival its conscience. His chapter The Nature of Gothic argued that the industrial division of labor degraded the worker along with the work, and that honest making requires the maker's freedom, the idea Morris called one of the most important utterances of the century.

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Birth Year
1819 1
Death Year
1900 1
Nationality
British 1
Defining Contribution
The intellectual foundation of the Arts and Crafts movement, above all The Nature of Gothic 1
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Ruskin's writing, above all The Nature of Gothic, supplied the movement's intellectual foundation

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