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Western Art and the Wider World
Paul J. Wood
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Description for Western Art and the Wider World
Paperback. Western Art and the Wider World explores the evolving relationship between the Western canon of art as it has developed since the Renaissance and the art and culture of those in the Islamic world, the Far East, Australasia, Africa and the Americas. Num Pages: 314 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: 1QFH; ACB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 170 x 245 x 14. Weight in Grams: 620.
Western Art and the Wider World explores the evolving relationship between the Western canon of art, as it has developed since the Renaissance, and the art and culture of the Islamic world, the Far East, Australasia, Africa and the Americas. * Explores the origins, influences, and evolving relationship between the Western canon of art as it has developed since the Renaissance and the art and culture of the Islamic world, the Far East, Australasia, Africa and the Americas * Makes the case for world art long before the fashion of globalization * Charts connections between areas of study in art that long were considered in isolation, such as the Renaissance encounter with the Ottoman Empire, the influence of Japanese art on the 19th-century French avant-garde and of African art on early modernism, as well as debates about the relation of contemporary art to the past. * Written by a well-known art historian and co-editor of the landmark Art in Theory volumes
Product Details
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
620g
Number of Pages
314
Place of Publication
Chicester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781444333923
SKU
V9781444333923
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Ref
99-15
About Paul J. Wood
Paul Wood is Senior Lecturer in Art History at the Open University, England. He has published widely in the field of modern and contemporary art, and is co-editor, with Charles Harrison and Jason Gaiger, of the landmark three-volume collection Art in Theory: An Anthology of Changing Ideas.
Reviews for Western Art and the Wider World
Western Art and the Wider World is certainly a timely myth-buster in terms of current anxieties and panics about the demise of the West s supposed cultural and economic place at the centre of things. Wood traces a long history of admiration and indebtedness to the East in terms of knowledge, art, commerce and governance. He also asserts that the history of western cultural dominance has been relatively short less than 200 years in his reckoning. Western Art and the Wider World tells stories of exchange, parity and mutual curiosity between the West and rest. (The Visual Artists News Sheet, 1 March 2014) A cautious, open-minded attempt to write about the history of Western Art form the Renaissance through the early and late modernist era, as it encountered, and was encountered by, the rest of the world. (Art Review, 1 March 2014)