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