The Whitworth_THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF ART Summary: For John Ruskin, art and craft were both fundamentally social practices. This doesn’t mean to say that individuals don’t make things, or get absorbed in the making of things, it simply means that art objects and artifacts, as well as being made by somebody, are also usually made for someone, for a purpose, and within a social context Type: News item Owner: Whitworth Art Gallery   Contact email: robertkparkinson@gmail.com Last modified: 10/04/2019 Link to this document: https://documents.manchester.ac.uk/display.aspx?DocID=42619 Edit (only Administrators)