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