La variedad de los ideales orientales: una relectura de la unidad de Asia en la obra de Okakura Kakuz? desde la perspectiva india

Sergio Román Aliste

doi:10.24310/BoLArte.2021.vi42.8145

Authors

Sergio Román Aliste Universidad Rey Juan Carlos Spain http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1225-0122

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24310/BoLArte.2021.vi42.8145

Keywords:

Okakura kakuz?, Rabindranath Tagore, Artistic theory, Pan-Asianism, Originality, Tradition, Bengal School

Abstract

This paper proposes new nuances in the interpretation of Okakura Kakuz?’s work The Ideals of the East (1903) using Bengali theoretical sources linked to artistic pedagogy. The interaction of Okakura Kakuz? with the cultural elites of Calcutta led to the writing of that book, but also to the implementation of a cultural twinning relevant to the study of artistic modernity in Asia. This article breaks down the ideological unity of Asia proposed by Okakura and the Bengali theorists with the intention of showing the main Western theoretical sources used in the construction of the Asian unitary ideal. The purpose of this article is to provide already consolidated clues in Indian anticolonial artistic theory to interpret Okakura’s text in a more open key.

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