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