Landscape After Ruskin : Redefining the Sublime

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."