John Ruskin’s Europe. A Collection of Cross-Cultural Essays
With an Introductory Lecture by Salvatore Settis
edited by
abstract
Ruskin’s work is strongly embedded in the broad European context, marking an important moment in the movement for the establishment of a community culture and spirit. The essays collected here intend to place the theme of Ruskin’s fruitful and vital relationship with Europe at the centre of a critical reflection, opportunities for an in-depth study and a discussion on issues related to aesthetics, the protection of tangible and intangible heritage, cultural and literary memory. By bringing to the attention of the scientific community the multiple aspects – geographic, historical-artistic, critical-aesthetic, literary, socio-political – of Ruskin’s work from inter- and transcultural perspectives, the volume aims to (re)discover a deliberately European Ruskin and to stimulate new research paths.
Anglo-Austrian Cultural Relationship • La Bible d’Amiens • Fioretti di San Francesco • Marxism • Unto this Last • Ruins • Europe awareness • Abandonment • European aesthetics • Viollet-le-Duc • Orient • Sicily • Shelter • Travel • Islam • Democratic Liberal • Francesco Pajaro • Archival documents • Travel writing • Calais’ experience • Charlotte Broicher • Optical thinker • Novelty • Nōmin-Geijutsu (Peasant Art) • National heritage • Liberal Italy • Roads • Rasu Chijin Kyōkai (Rasu Farmers Association) • Medieval Art • Russia • Johan Joachim Winckelmann • The Story of Ida • Turner • Nationalism • Aratra Pentelici • Klosterhof Glienicke • Gustav von Waagen • Christian socialism • Perception • François-René de Chateaubriand • Tourism • Guild of St George • Degrowth • Czech • Lady Gregory • Working Men’s College • Cardinal Manning • Leo Tolstoy • Samuel Taylor Coleridge • French Gothic architecture • Design • Ruskin • Liberalism • Social change • Interpretation • Bridges • Sketching • The Bible of Amiens • Arts and Crafts Movement • Religious monuments • Imaginary geography • Cultural heritage • Carl Justi • Giacomo Leopardi • Kenji Miyazawa • William Wordsworth • Art Market • Taishō Era • Queen of the Air • Modern Japan • “Grand contexte” • Marx • Drawing • Amelia Sarah Levetus • Architecture • Museums of Venice • Potsdam Friedenskirche • Observation • Ruskin’s reception • Gothic cathedrals • Humanity • Reception of Ancient Greek Art • Restoration • Magazine “The Studio” • Anti-capitalism • Composition • Frédéric Ozanam • Byzantine Sculptures • Spuybroek • Transcultural history • Disorientation • Aesthetics of the 19th and 20th century • Anglo-Italian Cultural Relationship • Dwelling in • Francesca Alexander • Old Road • Phenomenology • Version • Translation • Medieval Monuments in Italy • Italian Folk poetry • Palermo • Political economy • Memory • Photography • Roadside Songs of Tuscany • Social reform • Radicalism • Anti-industrialism • Il Marzocco • Venice • Arts and Crafts Schools • Hungary • Socialism • Ornament • Comparatism • Legacy • Intentionality • Europe • Marcel Proust • Reception of Classical Antiquity • Anti-machinism • Dante Alighieri • Aesthetics • Poland • Cultural Heritage Conservation • Gothic • John Ruskin • Lady Layard • Lev Tolstoj’s reception in Italy • Robert de la Sizeranne • Adult Education • State Museum Berlin • Yule family