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