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