2024.10.04 Ruskin in America: "Ruskin and the California Dream" by Gabriel Meyer скачать в хорошем качестве

2024.10.04 Ruskin in America: "Ruskin and the California Dream" by Gabriel Meyer

The Ruskin Art Club, founded 1888, is the oldest cultural association in Los Angeles. It remains dedicated to British art and social critic John Ruskin’s visionary integration of art and societal transformation. For more information, visit our website at https://www.ruskinartclub.org. "Ruskin and the California Dream" by Gabriel Meyer Ruskin Art Club executive director Gabriel Meyer lays out in this lecture various ways in which Ruskin’s aesthetic and political idealism influenced American art and arts education, architecture, civic engagement and utopian social experiments in the decades before World War I. Meyer places these developments in the context of the American Civil War and the myth of California as a redemptive setting for human reinvention and renewal. Poet-journalist GABRIEL MEYER is an award-winning foreign correspondent who has lived and worked throughout the Middle East, Balkans, and East Africa. He was awarded an honorary doctorate in recognition of his work as a journalist by the Do- minican School of Philosophy and Theology at UC Berkeley in 2017 and by Lancaster University in the UK in 2022. He currently serves as the executive director of the historic Ruskin Art Club. He has lectured widely on Ruskinian themes, including one at Notre Dame in 2022 on Ruskin and ecology. He is a Companion of the Guild of St. George, a charity founded by Ruskin in 1871. We welcome comments and feedback on this presentation.