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

With an Introductory Lecture by Salvatore Settis

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

Thema codes AGA • DSB • 1D

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 it, en, fr

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