Western Art and the Wider World

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

• Look! Art History Fundamentals (3rd Edition)
• Gardner's Art through the Ages: The Western Perspective, Volume II
• They Say / I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing (Fourth Edition)
• The Little Seagull Handbook with Exercises (Third Edition)
• The Value of Art: Money, Power, Beauty
• A Short Life of Trouble: Forty Years in the New York Art World
• Born at Home: The Biological, Cultural and Political Dimensions of Maternity Care in the United States (Case Studies on Contemporary Social Issues)
• Dancing Skeletons: Life and Death in West Africa, 20th Anniversary Edition
• Art history: A critical introduction to its methods
• Seeing Through Paintings: Physical Examination in Art Historical Studies