We Have Always Been Transcultural: The Arts as an Example /

We Have Always Been Transcultural: The Arts as an Example / / Wolfgang Welsch.

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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Superior document:Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2024
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Welsch, Wolfgang,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2024.
©2024
Year of Publication:2024
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2024.
Transcultural Aesthetics ; 5.
Physical Description:1 online resource (247 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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