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