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