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