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