Western Art and the Wider World: Wood/Western Art and the Wider World

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 Western Art and the Wider World 5 Copyright 5 Contents 9 List of Illustrations 10 Acknowledgments 12 Introduction 13 Notes 22 References 22 1 Renaissance and Old World 24 Introduction: The Status of the Renaissance 24 Changing Histories 28 Venice 32 New Light on Perspective 36 A Portrait 39 Some History Paintings 47 Later 54 Notes 58 References 61 2 Enlightenment and New World 64 America 64 White and De Bry 70 European Responses 77 Science 80 Allegory 82 Enlightenment and Empire 84 Pacific 85 Art and Visual Truth 87 Visual Truth and Fiction 89 Ideas of Human Development 92 Complicated Paradise 95 Picturing the “Noble Savage” 99 Art and “Curiosity” 101 Eurocentrism 104 Tupaia 105 Notes 108 References 110 3 Modernism and Modern World 112 Introduction 112 In the Beginning ... 114 History and Empire 117 European Effects 119 Mughal India 119 Japan 121 China 123 East–West Crossings 124 Inception of “Orientalism” 125 Looking Out 127 Chinoiserie 128 Exclusivity 131 Hegel 133 Other Ideas 137 Orientalism 140 Orientalism and Naturalism 146 Orientalism Revisited 151 Modernity 154 Manet and “Japonisme” 156 Primitivism 164 The Question of Origins 170 Primitivism and Expressionism 172 Academy and Empire 175 Benin 177 Fry and Primitivism 180 Later Modernist Primitivism 183 Notes 187 References 192 4 Avant-Garde, Contemporary, and Globalized World 197 To Mid-Century 197 “Modernist” and “Avant-garde” 197 Futurism 200 Relativizing Representation 201 Dada’s Australia 201 Einstein’s Africa 203 Schäfer’s Egypt 206 Surrealism and Ethnography 208 Exhibition 210 Mapping it Out 213 Caribbean 215 Realisms 219 Mexico to Michigan 223 Independence 225 Since Mid-Century 228 The Neo-avant-garde 228 Across the Atlantic 233 “Provincialism” 236 Conceptual Art and Conceptualism 238 Global Conceptualism 244 Consequences 247 Display 255 Notes 258 References 261 5 “World Art History” and “Contemporary Art” 265 Introduction 265 “World Art History” 269 Thinking “Contemporary Art” 281 The Wider World Now 294 Notes 299 References 301 Index 304 This book 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.0Explores 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 Globalization In The Early 21st Century Is Increasingly Reflected In Contemporary Art. Yet There Remains A Need For A Theoretically Informed And Historically Wide-ranging Study Of Changes In The Relationship Between The Modern Wester Artistic Canon And Those Of Other Forms Of Art Which It Has Traditionally Marginalized. This Book Explores Western Art As It Has Developed Since The Renaissance In Terms Of An Evolving Relationship With The Art And Culture Of Other Societies, Including The Islamic World, The Far East, Australasia, Africa, And The Americas. Renaissance And Old World -- Enlightenment And New World -- Modernism And Modern World -- Avant-garde, Contemporary, And Globalized World -- World Art History And Contemporary Art. Paul Wood. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.