Word: ruskinism
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Classical civilization, says Peattie, was sunlit, but Western civilization was born in shadowy forests. "Never in a history is there adequate description of the dark forests in which the story of early medieval Europe was enacted," he claims, forgetting that both John Ruskin and Oswald Spengler made the point long ago. The Renaissance was the product of nasty weather. Rain, cold, floods, plagues, famines, sunspots flourished in the 14th Century. Result: Giotto, Botticelli, Michelangelo, Machiavelli, the Medicis. Confessed Leonardo da Vinci: "All the genius that I have comes from the air [climate] of my native province." When the weather cleared...
...precious bric-a-brac, decadent paintings, rhapsodies in verse to Actress Lily Langtry, his declaration that "I want to eat of the fruit of all the trees in the garden of the world." What was less frequently recalled was that he was the pet of Slade Professor John Ruskin and of the great Walter Pater, who was once so overcome by his protege's beautiful talk about the "new Hellenism" that he went on his knees, kissed Oscar's hand. No one enjoyed more than Ruskin and Pater the story of how Oscar had thrown four big athletes...
...advertising poster for them. The Chap-Book started the vogue of Little Magazines (then called Dinkey Magazines), germinated the Chicago literary "renaissance of a few years hence. Meanwhile in Manhattan, old-line publishers were glooming because there were no new writers to replace the big names rapidly dying off: Ruskin, Tennyson, Carlyle, Emerson, etc. Kimball bought Stone's share in 1896, headed for Manhattan, made the only attempt to publish a U. S. literary daily (the editors burned out in a fortnight), soon fizzled out as a general publisher. He ended as an authority on industrial pension plans, inventor...
...Himalayas of art whose height seems to increase with distance. Students of Romantic painting have found Turner's shadow longer than that of his French contemporaries (Gericault, Delacroix), longer than that of the Impressionists, whom he anticipated, and somewhere above such abstractionists as Redon, Kandinsky and Klee. John Ruskin spent most of his days interpreting Turner's art. But Turner's life has remained muddied by the fictions of his first biographer, a prolific hack named George Walter Thornbury...
When his offer to organize a volunteer company in the Spanish-American War was refused, Charles Beard went to Oxford, helped organize its first labor college (Ruskin), chummed with Ramsay MacDonald in British labor circles. From 1904 to 1917 he was one of Columbia University's most popular professors...