The Mystical Spirit of Japan – Stefan Łubieński and Transnational Artistic Networks in 1920s Japan

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Result on the web

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The Mystical Spirit of Japan – Stefan Łubieński and Transnational Artistic Networks in 1920s Japan

Original language description

Stefan Łubieński (1893–1976), composer, fine artist, diplomat, spiritual seeker, and thinker, was a Polish nobleman, follower of Anthroposophy and author of such books as Ways to Spiritual Light and Man between Microcosm and Macrocosm. With his first wife, Zina Łubieńska, he resided in Japan in the first half of the 1920s. Despite the fact Łubieński published his autobiography and the names of the two Poles were mentioned at that time, the time they spent in Japan has not been analysed by the scholars before. This article is an attempt at unravelling the Łubieńskis’ life in Japan and to showing how it is placed in the context of Japanese culture in the 1920s. Furthermore, it will document the ways the Łubieńskis operated within the transnational network of Theosophists that spread among artists, foreign and Japanese alike, as a way to meet and exchange ideas. One of the circles the Łubieńskis joined, together with Noémi and Antonín Raymond, was the Garakutashū (en. “Circle for the Study of Odd Things and Junk”), a casual setting for open discussion about passion for collecting objects, hobbies, and a shared interest in Japanese arts such as woodblock printing, calligraphy, and ink painting. The transnational method used in this article foregrounds the importance of thinking through a lens highlighting transnational networks and enables us to recognize the Łubieńskis as a part of the Theosophical Society (TS), Garakutashū, and other networks of modern Japan.

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60401 - Arts, Art history

Project

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Continuities

V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Studia Religiologica

ISSN

0137-2432

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Volume of the periodical

53

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

PL - POLAND

Number of pages

7

Pages from-to

15-21

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