Cultural mediation in Europe, 1800-1950 / edited by Reine Meylaerts, Lieven D'hulst & Tom Verschaffel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Meylaerts, Reine, editor.

Hulst, Lieven d', editor.

Verschaffel, Tom, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cultural relations.

Europe--Civilization--19th century.

Europe.

Europe--Civilization--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 PDF (222 pages))

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leuven, [Belgium] : Leuven University Press, 2017.

Summary:

From the early nineteenth century till the middle of the twentieth century, cultures in Europe were primarily national. They were organized and conceived of as attributes of the nation states. Nonetheless, these national cultures crossed borders with an unprecedented intensity even before globalization transformed the very concept of culture. During that long period, European cultures have imported and exported products, techniques, values, and ideas, relying on invisible but efficient international networks. The central agents of these networks are considered mediators: translators, publishers, critics, artists, art dealers and collectors, composers. These agents were not only the true architects of intercultural transfer, they also largely contributed to the shaping of a common canon and of aesthetic values that became part of the history of national cultures. Cultural Mediation in Europe, 1800-1950 analyses the strategic transfer roles of cultural mediators active in large parts of Western Europe in domains as varied as literature, music, painting, or art design.

Contents:

Introduction / Reine Meylaerts, Lieven D'hulst & Tom Verschaffel

I. Actors.

James/Diego/Jaime Clark : shedding light on the translator who sparked modern Spanish translations of Shakespeare / Inmaculada Serón Ordóñez

Hendrik Willem Mesdag : an enterprising artist and collector / Renske Suijver

Paris in the late nineteenth-early twentieth century : the consecration of European letters or the production of "belles infideles"?

Amelie Auzoux

II. Journals

Cultural transfer through translation in the Edinburgh review, 1802-1807 / Tom Toremans

Mediating Breuer : the transfer of images and texts on Marcel Breuer's tubular steel furniture / Ágnes Anna Sebestyen

Spreading the word and image of modernism : Christian Zervos and Cahiers d'art, 1926-1960 / Kate Kangaslahti

III. Politics

Towards a comparative history of mediators : double men and women / Christophe Charle

Mediating through translation : Irish cultural nationalism and European importations / Anne O'Connor

Germany as a cultural paragon : transferring modern musical life from Central Europe to Finland / Vesa Kurkela & Saijaleena Rantanen

Dada

rag-time

cabaret : artistic internationalism and multilingual writing in Walter Mehring's work / Dirk Weissmann.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBC, viewed March 26, 2018).

ISBN:

94-6166-240-8

OCLC:

1028189730