John Ruskin’s Europe. A Collection of Cross-Cultural Essays

With an Introductory Lecture by Salvatore Settis

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  • Emma Sdegno - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia - email orcid profile
  • Martina Frank - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia - email orcid profile
  • Myriam Pilutti Namer - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia - email orcid profile
  • Pierre-Henry Frangne - Université Rennes 2, France - email

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.

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

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-487-5 | e-ISBN 978-88-6969-487-5 | ISBN (PRINT) 978-88-6969-488-2 | Number of pages 448 | Dimensions 24x22cm | Published Dec. 15, 2020 | Language fr, it, en

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