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