John Ruskin’s Europe. A Collection of Cross-Cultural Essays
With an Introductory Lecture by Salvatore Settis
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abstract
L’opera di Ruskin s’inscrive con forza nel grande contesto europeo, segnando un momento importante del movimento di costituzione di una cultura e di uno spirito comunitari. I saggi qui raccolti intendono porre al centro della riflessione critica il tema del rapporto fecondo e imprescindibile di Ruskin con l’Europa, presentandosi come occasioni di approfondimento e di confronto su questioni attinenti all’estetica, alla tutela del patrimonio materiale e immateriale, alla memoria culturale e letteraria. Portando all’attenzione della comunità scientifica i molteplici aspetti – geografici, storico-artistici, critico-estetici, letterari, socio-politici – dell’opera di Ruskin secondo prospettive inter- e transculturali, il volume si propone di (ri)scoprire un Ruskin deliberatamente europeo e di stimolare nuove rotte di ricerca.
Christian socialism • Archival documents • French Gothic architecture • Marxism • Francesca Alexander • William Wordsworth • Sicily • Orient • Lady Layard • Roadside Songs of Tuscany • Adult Education • Social reform • Klosterhof Glienicke • Intentionality • Anti-machinism • Venice • John Ruskin • Spuybroek • Johan Joachim Winckelmann • Il Marzocco • Charlotte Broicher • Gothic cathedrals • State Museum Berlin • Tourism • Samuel Taylor Coleridge • Giacomo Leopardi • Travel • Architecture • Anglo-Austrian Cultural Relationship • “Grand contexte” • Carl Justi • Anti-industrialism • National heritage • Working Men’s College • Nationalism • Memory • Guild of St George • Byzantine Sculptures • Museums of Venice • La Bible d’Amiens • Dwelling in • Religious monuments • The Bible of Amiens • Transcultural history • Anti-capitalism • Queen of the Air • Turner • Bridges • Robert de la Sizeranne • Design • Anglo-Italian Cultural Relationship • Arts and Crafts Movement • Sketching • François-René de Chateaubriand • Palermo • Political economy • Cultural heritage • Aesthetics • Marcel Proust • Amelia Sarah Levetus • Art Market • Ruins • Francesco Pajaro • Cardinal Manning • Reception of Ancient Greek Art • Rasu Chijin Kyōkai (Rasu Farmers Association) • Comparatism • Humanity • Aesthetics of the 19th and 20th century • Viollet-le-Duc • Medieval Art • Dante Alighieri • Unto this Last • Optical thinker • Taishō Era • Aratra Pentelici • Drawing • The Story of Ida • Composition • Czech • Imaginary geography • Ornament • Gustav von Waagen • Ruskin • Social change • Fioretti di San Francesco • Liberalism • Observation • Roads • Degrowth • Frédéric Ozanam • Lev Tolstoj’s reception in Italy • Phenomenology • Version • Medieval Monuments in Italy • Abandonment • Old Road • Hungary • Restoration • Reception of Classical Antiquity • European aesthetics • Cultural Heritage Conservation • Poland • Shelter • Radicalism • Democratic Liberal • Interpretation • Italian Folk poetry • Magazine “The Studio” • Russia • Arts and Crafts Schools • Liberal Italy • Socialism • Perception • Modern Japan • Gothic • Yule family • Photography • Islam • Marx • Europe • Novelty • Ruskin’s reception • Kenji Miyazawa • Legacy • Disorientation • Europe awareness • Calais’ experience • Leo Tolstoy • Potsdam Friedenskirche • Translation • Nōmin-Geijutsu (Peasant Art) • Lady Gregory • Travel writing