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