Cross-cultural Aesthetics in a Global Context

Focus on In Praise of Shadows

Frank Lloyd Wright's Imperial Hotel
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An exhibit mounted by the Japan Society that describes Wright's passion for Japanese art and culture.
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This record of a recent exhibition of Meiji art documents the hybrid world of the period.
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Patricia Flynn's curriculum for the Yale–New Haven Teachers Institute studies the influence of Japanese Prints on French Art.
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Excerpts from Robert Branner, Gothic Architecture (New York: Braziller, 1961), from a Columbia Univeristy course website
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"The History and Future of Wooden Architecture in Kansai," from a website dedicated to Japanese architecture, for information about the traditional Buddhist temples and shrines described by Tanizaki
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Illustration and discussion of Marcel Duchamp's "ready-made" image of a porcelain urinal.
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Focus on "Lapis Lazuli"

A commercial source describes the symbolism to be found on Chinese porcelains; note the reference to cranes.
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Two biographical sketches that speak of Yeats's political views
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Focus on the aesthetics of movement and performance

Bunraku Puppet Theater: Information and pictures
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Ballroom dancing
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A brief biography of Mei Lan-fang of the Peking Opera, whose virtuoso acting influenced Bertolt Brecht
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The art and cultural influences of Bob Marley

A brief illustrated biography of Bob Marley
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A class bibliography for the study of reggae music and its cultural significance
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Clothing and cross-cultural aesthetics

Claude Monet, La Japonaise. An example of Western artists' fascination with Japanese movement and style.
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Short biography of Eileen Chang. Note the mixture of Asian and Western in the picture of Chang—with her head bowed.
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