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