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