- An examination of the timely revival of the radical ideas and values of John Ruskin, the 19th-century artist, critic, educator, environmentalist, philanthropist and campaigner In the year of the bicentenary of John Ruskin's birth, Suzanne Fagence Cooper documents the astonishing revival of interest in Ruskin's ideas and values. In his own day, he was revered as a pioneering art critic - champion of J M W Turner and the Pre-Raphaelites...