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