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