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