In Landscapes After Ruskin a joyful experience of nature is now mixed with a certain terror as the earth and its atmosphere are increasingly touched by human activity.
Essays by Lynn Gumpert, Director of Grey Art Gallery
Dale Jamison, NYU Professor of E nvironmental Studies and Philosophy
Joel Sternfeld, renowned and influential artist
Chris Wiley, acclaimed contemporary art writer; explore contemporary painting, photography, sculpture, and video through the lens of influential English art critic and so cial thinker John Ruskin (1819 - 1900), who argued that the artist's principal responsibility is "truth to nature."
In Landscapes After Ruskin a joyful experience of nature is now mixed with a certain terror as the earth and its atmosphere are increasingly touched by human activity
