scholarly journals Japonism as a Pan-European Cultural Phenomenon at the Turn of the 19th and 20th Centuries

2015 ◽  
pp. 130-136
Author(s):  
Mikhail V. Grishin
Keyword(s):  
The West ◽  
Cultural Phenomenon ◽  
European Culture ◽  
Japanese Art ◽  
Visual Influence ◽  
Western European ◽  
First Time

Explores this phenomenon of European culture. The author believe that it was a result of a strong visual influence produced by Japanese art on Western European culture. It was for the first time that the West perceived an alien culture as equal and Japonism may be regarded as an aesthetic reception of Japanese arts related to the European dream about a Kingdom of Beauty.

The Korean Cultural Phenomenon Nunchi

2021 ◽  
pp. 178
Author(s):  
Jiin Chun
Keyword(s):  
Social Interactions ◽  
Korean Culture ◽  
Korean Society ◽  
Cultural Phenomenon ◽  
European Culture ◽  
The People ◽  
State Of Mind ◽  
Western European

This article examines the phenomenon of nunchi (being conscious of others’ or observing other people's state of mind, behavior, and situation) in Korean culture. Nunchi is different from Korean collectivism (We, affection) and Western European culture, where individualism is more important than the needs of society. In Korea nunchi is accepted as essential for forming a sense of solidarity in relations with people. Silence and observation are an important part of an individual's life and social interactions in Korean society. Observing the changes in the circumstances and the people around them in a group reveals the concerns of the Koreans for those close to them. The Koreans hide their opinions, do not speak directly, and tell white lies because they believe it is essential to avoid conflict with others. Korean politeness when they talk about their thoughts, either indirectly or with a hidden meaning, may raise questions from the Russians. In Korean society, it is necessary to keep an eye out. It is not a coincidence that the Westerns understood nunchi as a means of surviving in Korean society. However, the meaning of nunchi is not just a means to survive, but with the help of nunchi, Koreans try to predict other people's minds and understand their true desires in order to accurately understand and socialize with them. Nunchi is a basic Korean etiquette. It has deep historical roots and is closely related to collectivism.

The Self-Identification of an Empire: the Version of Manuel I Komnenos

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
П.В. Кузенков
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Political Ideology ◽  
Russian Translation ◽  
The Self ◽  
The West ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Western European ◽  
First Time

Аннотация В статье прослежены основные направления, по которым в эпоху Мануила I Комнина (1143–1180) проходила идеологическая самоидентификация византийского императора как полноправного наследника римской универсалистской идеи, воплощенной в образе Константина Великого. Разбирается отношение византийских авторов к «Константинову дару» и их успешные попытки приспособить данный фальсификат для укрепления собственной политической идеологии. Впервые в русском переводе приводится послание Фридриха I Барбароссы к императору Мануилу, на примере которого показано неадекватное отношение западноевропейских корреспондентов к идейно-политическому наполнению официальной византийской титулатуры. Постулируется принципиальное расхождение в базовых принципах, терминах, идеологических установках и культурно-религиозном фундаменте греческого и латинского христианства, что способствовало углублению разрыва между Византией и Западом фатальным образом сказалось на судьбе Империи ромеев. Abstract The article traces the main directions along which the ideological self-identification of the Byzantine emperor as a full heir to the Roman universalist idea embodied in the image of Constantine the Great took place in the era of Manuel I Comnenus (1143–1180). The attitude of the Byzantine authors to the «Donation of Constantine» and their successful attempts to adapt this falsification to strengthen their own political ideology is analyzed. The message of Frederick I Barbarossa to Emperor Manuel (1177) is given, for the first time in a Russian translation, as an example showing the inadequate attitude of Western European correspondents to the ideological and political filling of the official Byzantine title. A fundamental discrepancy is postulated in the basic principles, terms, ideological principles and the cultural and religious foundation of Greek and Latin Christianity, which contributed to widening the gap between Byzantium and the West, with fatal affect to the fate of the Eastern Roman Empire.

Comparative Analysis of Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar’s Travels to European Countries

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 78
Author(s):  
Aysel KAMAL ◽  
Sinem ATIS
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Young Lady ◽  
The Other ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Cultural Relations ◽  
The West ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
European Culture ◽  
Turkish Literature ◽  
Art And Architecture

Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar (1901-1962) is one of the most controversial authors in the 20th century Turkish literature. Literature critics find it difficult to place him in a school of literature and thought. There are many reasons that they have caused Tanpinar to give the impression of ambiguity in his thoughts through his literary works. One of them is that he is always open to (even admires) the "other" thought to a certain age, and he considers synthesis thinking at later ages. Tanpinar states in the letter that he wrote to a young lady from Antalya that he composed the foundations of his first period aesthetics due to the contributions from western (French) writers. The influence of the western writers on him has also inspired his interest in the materialist culture of the West. In 1953 and 1959 he organized two tours to Europe in order to see places where Western thought and culture were produced. He shared his impressions that he gained in European countries in his literary works. In the literary works of Tanpinar, Europe comes out as an aesthetic object. The most dominant facts of this aesthetic are music, painting, etc. In this work, in the writings of Tanpinar about the countries that he travelled in Europe, some factors were detected like European culture, lifestyle, socio-cultural relations, art and architecture, political and social history and so on. And the effects of European countries were compared with Tanpinar’s thought and aesthetics. Keywords: Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar, Europe, poetry, music, painting, culture, life

New records of aphyllophoroid fungi (Basidiomycota) for the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area — Yugra (West Siberia)

2020 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 387-396
Author(s):  
I. V. Stavishenko
Keyword(s):  
Animal Ecology ◽  
New Records ◽  
West Siberia ◽  
The West ◽  
First Time ◽  
Khanty Mansi Autonomous ◽  
Aphyllophoroid Fungi

The paper provides data on records of 29 species of aphyllophoroid fungi new for the the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area — Yugra. Among them 10 species (Amaurodon cyaneus, Amyloxenasma allantosporum, Asterostroma laxum, Byssoporia terrestris, Paullicorticium pearsonii, Pseudomerulius montanus, Sistotrema sernanderi, Skeletocutis alutacea, S. ochroalba, Tubulicrinis orientalis) are published for the first time for Siberia, and 3 species (Scytinostroma praestans, Tomentellopsis zygodesmoides, Tubulicrinis strangulatus) are new for the West Siberia. Data on their locations, habitats and substrates in region are indicated. The specimens are kept in the Museum of the Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology of the Ural Branch of the RAS (SVER).

The Souls of Muslim Folk

2012 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 63-86
Author(s):  
Abdelwahab El-Affendi
Keyword(s):  
African Americans ◽  
Race Relations ◽  
Cultural Difference ◽  
Traumatic Experience ◽  
Recent History ◽  
Current Debate ◽  
Dark Phase ◽  
The West ◽  
European Culture

The current debate on the vices of multiculturalism and the merits of integration, of problematizing cultural difference, appears to miss important lessons from recent history in the treatment of minorities. In this paper, I start by questioning the celebration of Barack Obama’s election as a “breakthrough” for multicultural inclusiveness. I argue that the “Obama phenomenon” highlights the limits of democratic inclusiveness and sheds light on the traumatic experience of African Americans, who have been victimized precisely for seeking to assimilate. European Jews, especially in Germany, could not be accused of any reluctance to integrate either, and their contributions to European culture are legendary. But they also suffered grievously for their pains. Thus when the same xenophobic political trends traditionally hostile to the integration of minorities begin to vociferously demand that Muslims should integrate, this must be seen as a warning that we may be heading toward a very dark phase of race relations in the West.

Europe's Growth Champion

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcin Piatkowski
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
High Income ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
The West ◽  
Success Stories ◽  
Catch Up ◽  
Inclusive Society ◽  
First Time ◽  
Global Growth

The book is about one of the biggest economic success stories that one has hardly ever heard about. It is about a perennially backward, poor, and peripheral country, which over the last twenty-five years has unexpectedly become Europe’s and a global growth champion and joined the ranks of high-income countries during the life of just one generation. It is about the lessons learned from its remarkable experience for other countries in the world, the conditions that keep countries poor, and challenges that countries need face to grow and become high-income. It is also about a new growth model that this country—Poland—and its peers in Central and Eastern Europe and elsewhere need to adopt to continue to grow and catch up with the West for the first time ever. The book emphasizes the importance of the fundamental sources of growth—institutions, culture, ideas, and leaders—in economic development. It argues that a shift from an extractive society, where the few rule for the benefit of the few, to an inclusive society, where many rule for the benefit of many, was the key to Poland’s success. It asserts that a newly emerged inclusive society will support further convergence of Poland and Central and Eastern Europe with the West and help sustain the region’s Golden Age, but moving to the core of the European economy will require further reforms and changes in Poland’s developmental DNA.

Kidnapped

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Louis Stevenson ◽  
Ian Duncan
Keyword(s):  
West Coast ◽  
Historical Novel ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The West ◽  
Scottish Highlands ◽  
Cross Country ◽  
First Time ◽  
Adventure Stories

Your bed shall be the moorcock’s, and your life shall be like the hunted deer’s, and ye shall sleep with your hand upon your weapons.’ Tricked out of his inheritance, shanghaied, shipwrecked off the west coast of Scotland, David Balfour finds himself fleeing for his life in the dangerous company of Jacobite outlaw and suspected assassin Alan Breck Stewart. Their unlikely friendship is put to the test as they dodge government troops across the Scottish Highlands. Set in the aftermath of the 1745 rebellion, Kidnapped transforms the Romantic historical novel into the modern thriller. Its heart-stopping scenes of cross-country pursuit, distilled to a pure intensity in Stevenson’s prose, have become a staple of adventure stories from John Buchan to Alfred Hitchcock and Ian Fleming. Kidnapped remains as exhilarating today as when it was first published in 1886. This new edition is based on the 1895 text, incorporating Stevenson’s last thoughts about the novel before his death. It includes Stevenson’s ‘Note to Kidnapped’, reprinted for the first time since 1922.

»Entartete Genialität« Guernica im geteilten Deutschland

2019 ◽  
Vol 82 (2) ◽  
pp. 234-248
Author(s):  
Martin Schieder
Keyword(s):  
Modern Art ◽  
The West ◽  
Postwar Germany ◽  
Cultural Event ◽  
Historical Responsibility ◽  
The Republic ◽  
German People ◽  
First Time

Abstract When in 1955/1956, for the first time in divided postwar Germany, a major Picasso exhibition took place in Munich, Cologne, and Hamburg, it came to be a cultural event that reached and emotionalized the German audience, media, and sciences to an unprecedented extent. The exhibition Picasso 1900 – 1955 contributed significantly to the popularization of Picasso at all levels of society and gave the German people access to modern art on a much wider scale than the first documenta held concurrently in Kassel. The undisputed eye-catcher of that spectacular exhibit was Guernica, on display in Germany for the first and only time. Its controversial reception reveals that at that time there was no intention to see the work in Germany in a memorial relationship with Germany’s own historical responsibility. Thus it virtually functioned as a symbol for a collective amnesia of the West German postwar society, whereas the socialist East of the Republic stylized the painting into an anti-fascist icon.

Fleeing the Soviet Union, Dancing on the West Coast

Experiment ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 297-316
Author(s):  
Lorin Johnson ◽  
Donald Bradburn
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
High Power ◽  
West Coast ◽  
Southern California ◽  
The West ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
First Time

In the 1970s and 1980s, Los Angeles audiences saw Soviet defectors Mikhail Baryshnikov, Alexander Godunov, Natalia Makarova, and Rudolf Nureyev in the prime of their careers at the Hollywood Bowl, The Dorothy Chandler Pavilion and the Greek Theater. Dance photographer Donald Dale Bradburn, a local Southern California dancer describes his behind-the-scenes access to these dancers in this interview. Perfectly positioned as Dance Magazine’s Southern California correspondent, Bradburn offers a candid appraisal of the Southern California appeal for such high-power Russian artists as well as their impact on the arts of Los Angeles. An intimate view of Russian dancers practicing their craft on Los Angeles stages, Bradburn’s interview is illustrated by fourteen of his photographs, published for the first time in this issue of Experiment.

Squat lobsters (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Galatheoidea) from off the northwestern coast of the Baja California Peninusla, Mexico

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4965 (2) ◽  
pp. 375-384
Author(s):  
MICHEL E. HENDRICKX
Keyword(s):  
West Coast ◽  
Gulf Of California ◽  
Baja California ◽  
Baja California Peninsula ◽  
The West ◽  
Western Mexico ◽  
Exploratory Survey ◽  
Northwestern Coast ◽  
First Time ◽  
Squat Lobsters

Four species of squat lobsters were collected off the northwestern coast of the Baja California Peninsula, Mexico, during an exploratory survey of fishing resources. Janethogalathea californiensis, described from California was previously known from off the west coast of the Baja California Peninsula (two localities) and from the Gulf of California (three localities). Of the three species of Munida collected during the survey, M. tenella is recorded off the west coast of the Baja California Peninsula for the first time. These are the fourth record of M. hispida and the second record of M. quadrispina in western Mexico.

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