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