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Author: Paul Wood (University of Loughborough, UK)
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell
Dimensions:
Width: 17.00cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 24.10cm
Weight: 0.658kg
ISBN: 9781444333923
ISBN 10: 1444333925
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 22 November 2013
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
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)
<p> Western Art and the Wider World is certainly a timelymyth-buster in terms of current anxieties and panics about thedemise of the West s supposed cultural and economic place atthe centre of things. Wood traces a long history of admiration andindebtedness to the East in terms of knowledge, art,commerce and governance. He also asserts that the history ofwestern cultural dominance has been relatively short less than 200 years in his reckoning. Western Art andthe Wider World tells stories of exchange, parity and mutualcuriosity between the West and rest. (The VisualArtists News Sheet, 1 March 2014) A cautious, open-minded attempt to write about the history ofWestern Art form the Renaissance through the early and latemodernist era, as it encountered, and was encountered by, the restof the world. (Art Review, 1 March 2014)
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. ( The Visual Artists' News Sheet , 1 March 2014)
Author Information
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.
