Question

The English social critic, writer, artist and theorist who inspired the philosophy of the arts and crafts movement challenged orthodoxy around the Renaissance and Industrial Revolution and pointed toward the union of art and labor in service to society.

Answer 1

John Ruskin.

Step-by-step explanation:

• John Ruskin was an eminent social critic and writer of the Victorian age. He wrote various academic works on varied subjects which are studied by many scholars today.
• He was inspired by the philosophy of arts and crafts and advocated the union of art and labor in service to society. He felt that people were drifting away from the beauty of art since Renaissance.
• With the coming of Industrialization, Ruskin felt that people have started to lose creativity as everyone struggled in the race of modernization and tried to bring a union of art and labor so that there would be beauty and satisfaction in work-life.