John Ruskin’s Europe. A Collection of Cross-Cultural Essays

With an Introductory Lecture by Salvatore Settis

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  • Emma Sdegno - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia - email orcid profile
  • Martina Frank - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia - email orcid profile
  • Myriam Pilutti Namer - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia - email orcid profile
  • Pierre-Henry Frangne - Université Rennes 2, France - email

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.

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

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-487-5 | e-ISBN 978-88-6969-487-5 | ISBN (PRINT) 978-88-6969-488-2 | Number of pages 448 | Dimensions 24x22cm | Published Dec. 15, 2020 | Language en, it, fr

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