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