Exoticism or the Translation of Cultural Difference
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https://doi.org/10.5944/etfvii.4.2016.16552Keywords:
Segalen, Bouriaud, exoticism, diversity, aesthetics, symbolis, realismAbstract
In this paper the author analyses the criteria of judgment we bring to bear on artworks in our times of movement, where people and art objects travel the world, but don’t always carry in their baggage movements of thought and opinion. In view of the contemporary situation of art as coming from anywhere, and the culturalcritical aspects inherent in that situation, he zooms in on a text from the beginning of the twentieth century as an example of how ideas about aesthetics in relation to otherness have impacted on our thinking about art «in movement», namely Victor Segalen’s Essay on Exoticism: An Aesthetics of Diversity.Downloads
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