John Ruskin’s Europe. A Collection of Cross-Cultural Essays

With an Introductory Lecture by Salvatore Settis

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  • Emma Sdegno - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia - email orcid profile
  • Martina Frank - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia - email orcid profile
  • Myriam Pilutti Namer - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia - email orcid profile
  • Pierre-Henry Frangne - Université Rennes 2, France - email

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.

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

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-487-5 | e-ISBN 978-88-6969-487-5 | ISBN (PRINT) 978-88-6969-488-2 | Number of pages 448 | Dimensions 24x22cm | Published Dec. 15, 2020 | Language it, en, fr

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