Wood Western Art and the Wider World

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-118-59874-0
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 320 Seiten, E-Book

Western Art and the Wider World explores the evolvingrelationship between the Western canon of art, as it has developedsince the Renaissance, and the art and culture of the Islamicworld, the Far East, Australasia, Africa and the Americas.
* Explores the origins, influences, and evolving relationshipbetween the Western canon of art as it has developed since theRenaissance and the art and culture of the Islamic world, the FarEast, Australasia, Africa and the Americas
* Makes the case for 'world art' long before thefashion of globalization
* Charts connections between areas of study in art that long wereconsidered in isolation, such as the Renaissance encounter with theOttoman Empire, the influence of Japanese art on the19th-century French avant-garde and of African art on earlymodernism, as well as debates about the relation of'contemporary art' to the past.
* Written by a well-known art historian and co-editor of thelandmark Art in Theory volumes

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wood, Paul

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations viii
Acknowledgments x
Introduction 1
1 Renaissance and Old World 12
2 Enlightenment and New World 52
3 Modernism and Modern World 100
4 Avant-Garde, Contemporary, and Globalized World 185
5 "World Art History" and "Contemporary Art" 253
Index 292

Über Autor(innen)

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.