英国工艺美术运动的先驱者和领袖人物约翰·罗斯金被称为“他那时代惟一有创见的英国思想家”[1](p.189),“维多利亚时代的圣人”。[2](p.16)罗斯金全集虽然有39集之巨,但是他并没有独立的论述美学的著作。罗斯金的美学思想散见于他的许多论艺术和建筑的著作中。在继承了英国经验主义美学的基础上,他提出了“典型美”、“重大美”,并对“崇高”这一美学概念作出了自己的解释。在提倡道德美的前提下,罗斯金确立了自己的人文主义艺术美学思想。 John Ruskin, a pioneer and leader of the British arts and crafts movement, is known as “the only creative British thinker in his time” (p.189), “the saint of the Victorian era.” [2] (p.16) Although the Complete Works of Ruskin 39 sets of giant, but he does not have an independent treatise on aesthetics. Ruskin’s aesthetic ideas are found in many of his works on art and architecture. Based on the inheritance of British empiricism aesthetics, he proposed “typical beauty” and “major beauty” and gave his own explanation of the aesthetic concept of “sublime”. Under the premise of promoting moral beauty, Ruskin established his own art of humanistic aesthetics.