Western Art and the Wider World / Paul Wood

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

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