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.
Carl Justi • Kenji Miyazawa • Potsdam Friedenskirche • Shelter • Francesca Alexander • Giacomo Leopardi • Christian socialism • Religious monuments • Anti-industrialism • State Museum Berlin • Socialism • Cardinal Manning • Gothic cathedrals • Optical thinker • Novelty • Roads • Robert de la Sizeranne • Russia • Calais’ experience • Intentionality • Francesco Pajaro • Lady Layard • Observation • Anglo-Italian Cultural Relationship • John Ruskin • Marx • Ruskin’s reception • François-René de Chateaubriand • Medieval Art • Tourism • The Story of Ida • Reception of Ancient Greek Art • Memory • French Gothic architecture • Phenomenology • Nationalism • Johan Joachim Winckelmann • Nōmin-Geijutsu (Peasant Art) • Museums of Venice • Aesthetics • Drawing • Adult Education • Old Road • Restoration • Lady Gregory • Legacy • Sketching • Cultural Heritage Conservation • Degrowth • Queen of the Air • Europe • Design • Czech • Spuybroek • Yule family • Aesthetics of the 19th and 20th century • Working Men’s College • Humanity • Arts and Crafts Movement • Archival documents • Viollet-le-Duc • Version • Travel • Italian Folk poetry • Disorientation • Social reform • Taishō Era • Cultural heritage • Art Market • Samuel Taylor Coleridge • Anglo-Austrian Cultural Relationship • Europe awareness • “Grand contexte” • Anti-machinism • Gothic • Imaginary geography • Gustav von Waagen • Frédéric Ozanam • Bridges • Photography • La Bible d’Amiens • Turner • Marxism • Modern Japan • Orient • Comparatism • Aratra Pentelici • Lev Tolstoj’s reception in Italy • Political economy • Reception of Classical Antiquity • Translation • Travel writing • Unto this Last • Fioretti di San Francesco • Islam • The Bible of Amiens • Poland • Ornament • Radicalism • European aesthetics • Venice • Charlotte Broicher • Perception • Marcel Proust • Il Marzocco • Magazine “The Studio” • Amelia Sarah Levetus • Abandonment • Interpretation • Medieval Monuments in Italy • National heritage • Dante Alighieri • Social change • Hungary • Roadside Songs of Tuscany • Guild of St George • Anti-capitalism • Transcultural history • Klosterhof Glienicke • William Wordsworth • Composition • Ruins • Byzantine Sculptures • Architecture • Ruskin • Palermo • Rasu Chijin Kyōkai (Rasu Farmers Association) • Leo Tolstoy • Sicily • Dwelling in • Liberal Italy • Democratic Liberal • Arts and Crafts Schools • Liberalism