John Ruskin’s Europe. A Collection of Cross-Cultural Essays
With an Introductory Lecture by Salvatore Settis
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abstract
L’opera di Ruskin s’inscrive con forza nel grande contesto europeo, segnando un momento importante del movimento di costituzione di una cultura e di uno spirito comunitari. I saggi qui raccolti intendono porre al centro della riflessione critica il tema del rapporto fecondo e imprescindibile di Ruskin con l’Europa, presentandosi come occasioni di approfondimento e di confronto su questioni attinenti all’estetica, alla tutela del patrimonio materiale e immateriale, alla memoria culturale e letteraria. Portando all’attenzione della comunità scientifica i molteplici aspetti – geografici, storico-artistici, critico-estetici, letterari, socio-politici – dell’opera di Ruskin secondo prospettive inter- e transculturali, il volume si propone di (ri)scoprire un Ruskin deliberatamente europeo e di stimolare nuove rotte di ricerca.
Drawing • Bridges • Archival documents • Interpretation • Novelty • Restoration • Perception • Reception of Classical Antiquity • Translation • Kenji Miyazawa • Leo Tolstoy • Amelia Sarah Levetus • Byzantine Sculptures • Marx • Europe • Socialism • Carl Justi • Dante Alighieri • Intentionality • Marxism • Rasu Chijin Kyōkai (Rasu Farmers Association) • Samuel Taylor Coleridge • Taishō Era • Aesthetics • Dwelling in • Gothic cathedrals • Legacy • Photography • Religious monuments • Palermo • Sketching • Klosterhof Glienicke • Political economy • Ruins • Sicily • Social reform • Islam • Nōmin-Geijutsu (Peasant Art) • Travel • Tourism • Abandonment • Travel writing • Composition • Orient • The Bible of Amiens • Calais’ experience • Cardinal Manning • Reception of Ancient Greek Art • “Grand contexte” • Roadside Songs of Tuscany • Lady Gregory • Fioretti di San Francesco • French Gothic architecture • Memory • Old Road • Anglo-Italian Cultural Relationship • Comparatism • European aesthetics • Spuybroek • Liberalism • Democratic Liberal • Anglo-Austrian Cultural Relationship • Hungary • Disorientation • Viollet-le-Duc • Design • Francesca Alexander • Cultural Heritage Conservation • Anti-industrialism • Gothic • Shelter • Anti-capitalism • Medieval Monuments in Italy • Phenomenology • Johan Joachim Winckelmann • Francesco Pajaro • Guild of St George • National heritage • Nationalism • State Museum Berlin • Lady Layard • Museums of Venice • Poland • Cultural heritage • Optical thinker • Ruskin • Modern Japan • Europe awareness • Adult Education • Aesthetics of the 19th and 20th century • Czech • Ruskin’s reception • William Wordsworth • Frédéric Ozanam • Yule family • Version • Aratra Pentelici • Roads • Il Marzocco • Imaginary geography • Observation • Anti-machinism • Russia • Christian socialism • Unto this Last • Gustav von Waagen • Potsdam Friedenskirche • Art Market • La Bible d’Amiens • Transcultural history • François-René de Chateaubriand • Turner • Working Men’s College • Humanity • Arts and Crafts Schools • Lev Tolstoj’s reception in Italy • Magazine “The Studio” • Robert de la Sizeranne • Medieval Art • Venice • Arts and Crafts Movement • Degrowth • Giacomo Leopardi • Italian Folk poetry • Liberal Italy • Ornament • Charlotte Broicher • Architecture • Queen of the Air • Radicalism • The Story of Ida • Marcel Proust • Social change • John Ruskin