Western art and the wider world / Paul Wood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wood, Paul, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art--History.

Art.

History.

Physical Description:

ix, 304 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Chichester : Wiley-Blackwell, 2014.

Summary:

The globalized situation of the world in the early twenty-first century is increasingly reflected in contemporary art. Yet there remains a pressing need for a theoretically informed and historically wide-ranging study of changes in the relationship between the modern Western artistic canon and those other forms of art which it has traditionally marginalized. Western Art and the Wider World explores key episodes in Western art as it has developed since the Renaissance in terms of an evolving relationship with the art and culture of other societies which have influenced it - including those of the Islamic world, the Far East, Australasia, Africa, and the Americas. Chapters explore a wide range of topics at the intersection of Western and non-Western artistic traditions, including such themes as the Renaissance encounter with the Ottoman Empire, the debate over orientalism, the impact of Japanese art on the nineteenth-century French avant-garde, and the much disputed discourse of "primitivism." The final chapter offers fresh insights into contemporary debates about the globalization of art practice and the disputed notion of a "world art history." Western Art and the Wider World furthers intellectual debate on the changing relationship between Western and non-Western art throughout the extended modern period. Book jacket.

Contents:

Renaissance and old world

Enlightenment and new world

Modernism and modern world

Avant-garde, contemporary, and globalized world

"World art history" and "Contemporary art".

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781444333916

1444333917

9781444333923

1444333925

OCLC:

865658048