Adal Beauty in the Age of Empire

Japan, Egypt, and the Global History of Aesthetic Education
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-231-54928-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

Reihe: Columbia Studies in International and Global History

Beauty in the Age of Empire is a global history of aesthetic education focused on how Western techniques were adopted and transformed in Egypt and Japan. Raja Adal uncovers the emergence of aesthetic subjects in pedagogy and their role in the creation of the modern citizen and state.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Adal, Raja

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Allgemeine Didaktik Kunst, Musik, Theater (Unterricht & Didaktik)
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Note on Names
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Modern School as a Global Archive
Part I: Music, Calligraphy, and the Education of the Inner Self
Interlude: How Culture Travels: A Global History of the Piano
2. Music Education and the Uses of Aesthetics
3. Writing Education and the Location of Aesthetics
Part II: From Mimesis to Art: Drawing Education and the Rise of the Independent Subject
Interlude: Mimesis and Seduction in National Anthems
4. The Mimetic Moment: The Age of Global Mimesis and Representational Mimesis
5. The End of Global Mimesis: The Rise of the National Subject
6. The End of Representational Mimesis: The Rise of the Individual Subject
Conclusion
Notes
Works Cited
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Adal Raja:
Raja Adal (PhD, History, Harvard) is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh. His work has appeared in Comparative Studies in Society and History and Theory, Culture, and Society.Raja Adal is assistant professor of history at the University of Pittsburgh.