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