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