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