We Have Always Been Transcultural: The Arts as an Example /
Wolfgang Welsch demonstrates for the first time that transculturality - the mixed constitution of cultures - is by no means only a characteristic of the present, but has de facto determined the composition of cultures since time immemorial. The historical transculturality is demonstrated using examp...
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Leiden ; Boston :
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2024.
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Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2024.
Transcultural Aesthetics ;
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Call Number: NX180.H93
- Preface
- List of Figures
- Introduction
- 1 Transculturality as a Standard
- 2 Transculturality versus Multi- and Interculturality
- 3 Opposition to the Mixed Character of Cultures
- 4 Conceptual Issues
- 5 Glimpses into History
- 6 The Mixed Constitution of the Human
- 7 The Accusation of 'Appropriation'
- 8 Across the Arts and Continents
- I The Own and the Other
- 1 Transculturation - the Cuban Paradigm (Fernando Ortíz)
- 2 New Anthropophagy (Oswald de Andrade)
- 3 Négritude (Léopold Senghor): Peculiarity According to a Foreign Guideline
- 4 Paul Gauguin: Dreams of the South Seas
- 5 Pablo Picasso: Les Demoiselles d'Avignon - a paradigm shift
- 6 Antonín Dvořák: an 'American' symphony
- 7 Giacomo Puccini's Madama Butterfly : Failure in Life, Success in Music
- 8 From Li Bo to Gustav Mahler
- 9 Simone Leigh: a Black Sphinx
- II Transformations
- 1 The Transcultural Roots of Greece
- 2 Europe - an Import from Phoenicia
- 3 Gandhara - a Hinge between West and East
- 4 China and Japan: the Foreign Becomes the Own
- III Transcultural Continuation of Antiquity
- 1 Dürer: the Fall of Man - Ancient Models Given a Modern Interpretation
- 2 Opera: Misunderstanding and New Interpretation of Antiquity
- 3 The Antique Model in the Architecture of the 20th Century
- 4 From Odysseus to Ulysses
- IV Inspirations
- 1 Dürer - a Venetian
- 2 Goethe and Hafiz - Twins Across Centuries
- 3 Manet's Déjeuner sur l'herbe - Antiquity and Renaissance Have Painted Along
- 4 Hokusai, van Gogh, Kurosawa - from East Asia to Europe and Back
- 5 Wilson and Mnouchkine - Transcultural Theater
- V Transcultural by Constitution
- 1 Carl Zuckmayer: Numerous Migration Backgrounds
- 2 Goethe: National Literature? World Literature!
- 3 Ibsen's Peer Gynt : a World Wanderer
- 4 Belkis Ayón: Transcultural-Emancipatory Identity
- 5 Haruki Murakami: Transculturality Is Nothing Special
- VI Coming Together
- 1 Hagia Sophia : Religious Discord, Transcultural Concord
- 2 Córdoba: Convivencia
- 3 The Gothic Style: the Wonderful Result of a Series of Confusions
- 4 John Cage: East Asian Inspirations
- 5 Michael Jackson: We Are All Related to Each Other
- 6 Postmodern Architecture: Patchwork or Transcultural?
- 7 Design: Transcultural Reflections
- 8 Cloud Gate Dance Theater: National Pride Transcultural
- 9 West-Eastern Divan Orchestra: Convivencia in Music
- VII Problematic Aspects and Failures
- 1 Ethnic and Nationalistic Lashing by the Art Market
- 2 Art against Demarcations
- 3 Monsieur Claude and His Daughters : Racism Instead of Transculturality
- 4 Bronzes of Shame
- VIII Transfers
- 1 African Carmen
- 2 Dancer and Runner
- 3 Europeras : Return in Shredded Form
- 4 Transfers between Artistic Genres
- 5 Italo-Western: from West to East and Back Again
- 6 Transculturality of Menus
- 7 Overplaying the Human-Animal Difference
- 8 Pretty Best Friends : across Social Differences
- 9 Death Metal and Buddhism
- ix Universals as the Depth Basis of Transculturality
- 1 Universal Appreciation across Cultures
- 2 The Modern Denial of Universals - and Its Refutation
- 3 Universal Understanding as a Result of Sustained Effort
- 4 Universality - Advantages of Film and Music
- 5 Peter Brook: a Universal The.