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