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Marx, Peter W. ORCID: 0000-0002-5883-0571 (2019). Travelling as Art and Art as Travelling: Carl Hagemann´s Theatrical Conjurings of India. In: A Mediated Magic: The Indian Presence in Modernism 1880 - 1930, pp. 114-129. Mumbai: The Marg Foundation. ISBN 9789383243280

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Abstract

Jungles where man met the spirit of the wild, yogis who harnessed the deepest powers of the mind, destitutes who had no more want than the veracity of their tradition, valorous Aryans who were also "warm and brown", and profligate maharajas whose extravagance could out dazzle any other court of the world-the contrasts of temperament, habitat and colour, depth of spirituality and sumptuous sexuality became the standard fare of the clichés that typified India in the intellectual and artistic circles of the West at the height of colonialism. Less well known is that this was accompanied by a strong move toward a particular vocabulary of abstraction in visual form, spiritual discourse, music and theatre. The exchanges with ideas Indian, and with Indians themselves, had a decisive impact that contributed to the eruption and shape of Modernism in the West. This volume, richly illustrated and including several unpublished artworks, reveals the great artists of Europe in a new light. It also brings into focus lesser-known artists of no small importance, and expands the frontiers of the known influences of India .

Item Type:	Book Section, Proceedings Item or annotation in a legal commentary
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Marx, Peter W. UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-5883-0571 UNSPECIFIED
Editors:	Editors Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Ahuja, Naman P. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Belfrage, Loise UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-511258
Title of Book:	A Mediated Magic: The Indian Presence in Modernism 1880 - 1930
Page Range:	pp. 114-129
Number of Pages:	184
Date:	2019
Publisher:	The Marg Foundation
Place of Publication:	Mumbai
ISBN:	9789383243280
Language:	English
Faculty:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Divisions:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Fächergruppe 1: Kunstgeschichte, Musikwissenschaft, Medienkultur und Theater, Linguistik, IDH > Institut für Medienkultur und Theater
Subjects:	Stage presentations
Related URLs:	Publisher
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/51125