John Ruskin’s Europe. A Collection of Cross-Cultural Essays
With an Introductory Lecture by Salvatore Settis
edited by
abstract
Ruskin’s work is strongly embedded in the broad European context, marking an important moment in the movement for the establishment of a community culture and spirit. The essays collected here intend to place the theme of Ruskin’s fruitful and vital relationship with Europe at the centre of a critical reflection, opportunities for an in-depth study and a discussion on issues related to aesthetics, the protection of tangible and intangible heritage, cultural and literary memory. By bringing to the attention of the scientific community the multiple aspects – geographic, historical-artistic, critical-aesthetic, literary, socio-political – of Ruskin’s work from inter- and transcultural perspectives, the volume aims to (re)discover a deliberately European Ruskin and to stimulate new research paths.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge • Drawing • Religious monuments • Cardinal Manning • Legacy • Tourism • Anti-machinism • Imaginary geography • Memory • Intentionality • Rasu Chijin Kyōkai (Rasu Farmers Association) • Leo Tolstoy • Taishō Era • State Museum Berlin • Transcultural history • Calais’ experience • Photography • Dante Alighieri • Sicily • Lady Layard • National heritage • Orient • Translation • Frédéric Ozanam • Ruins • Anti-industrialism • Ruskin’s reception • Social reform • Spuybroek • Arts and Crafts Schools • Guild of St George • Social change • French Gothic architecture • Queen of the Air • Architecture • Version • Giacomo Leopardi • Comparatism • Sketching • Aratra Pentelici • Islam • Poland • Russia • Cultural heritage • Liberalism • Nōmin-Geijutsu (Peasant Art) • Dwelling in • Radicalism • Venice • Abandonment • Democratic Liberal • Observation • Roadside Songs of Tuscany • Marcel Proust • Novelty • Italian Folk poetry • Adult Education • Viollet-le-Duc • Restoration • Palermo • La Bible d’Amiens • Degrowth • William Wordsworth • Phenomenology • Lady Gregory • Francesco Pajaro • Shelter • Marx • Johan Joachim Winckelmann • Disorientation • Unto this Last • “Grand contexte” • Amelia Sarah Levetus • Anti-capitalism • Roads • Fioretti di San Francesco • Charlotte Broicher • Interpretation • Il Marzocco • Socialism • Magazine “The Studio” • Kenji Miyazawa • Turner • Humanity • Archival documents • Arts and Crafts Movement • Modern Japan • The Bible of Amiens • Yule family • Marxism • Christian socialism • Old Road • Travel writing • Perception • Byzantine Sculptures • Design • Czech • Composition • Working Men’s College • Political economy • Robert de la Sizeranne • Travel • Hungary • Ruskin • Cultural Heritage Conservation • Gothic • Anglo-Italian Cultural Relationship • European aesthetics • Gothic cathedrals • Aesthetics • Francesca Alexander • Gustav von Waagen • Nationalism • The Story of Ida • Reception of Ancient Greek Art • Art Market • Europe awareness • Aesthetics of the 19th and 20th century • Klosterhof Glienicke • Carl Justi • Europe • Potsdam Friedenskirche • Reception of Classical Antiquity • François-René de Chateaubriand • Museums of Venice • Lev Tolstoj’s reception in Italy • John Ruskin • Anglo-Austrian Cultural Relationship • Optical thinker • Bridges • Ornament • Medieval Monuments in Italy • Medieval Art • Liberal Italy