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[John Ruskin]'s hostility to the machine and the market, and the spiritual impoverishment of the industrial labourer, grew ever more entrenched over the years. He yearned for what he saw as the purity of the pre-capitalist era. Rejected in Britain, his message found its mark in the British empire, specifically India, where his views struck surprising root in the art school of Lahore.
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Slaves to Industry
Victorian artists tended to depict workers in highly idealised terms - if they bothered with them at all. RICHARD GOTT on the forgotten few who painted life as it was Slaves to industry Men at Work: art and labour in Victorian Britain Tim Barringer Yale University Press, 379pp, £40
We have become so accustomed to artists working with almost anything, from male urinals to unmade beds (a devel...See the full content of this document
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