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