This timely volume challenges the narrow Western-centrism of most art historical models. Archaeologists have found that, for tens of thousands of years, all human cultures have shared a desire for visual representation or expression. Yet the study of art history has traditionally focused on Western artworks of the past few centuries. World Art Studies examines the phenomenon of art through a broader cultural, global, and temporal perspective, bringing together a uniquely exhaustive range of perspectives on art and borrowing approaches from the study of neuroscience, evolutionary biology, anthropology and geography as models — alongside more conventional art historical perspectives. In musicology or linguistics, using such diverse viewpoints for reflection and research is considered part of the normal process. In that spirit, this volume goes beyond abstract models, using case studies to demonstrate and examine specific methods of investigation. Includes bibliography and index.
Onsite
English
2008
463
9789078088226
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anthology
Prelude: Keeping the World Together - Ben-Ami SCHARFSTEIN
Introducing World Art Studies - Wilfried VAN DAMME
I Historiography: Envisioning Global Approaches in the Study of Art
Origins and Principles of World Art History: 1900 (and 2000) - Ulrich PFISTERER
The Many Beginnings and the One End of World Art History in Germany, 1900-1933 - Marlite HALBERTSMA
Can We Invent a World Art Studies? - James ELKINS
World Art Studies and the Historiography of Chinese Art - CAO Yiqiang, 曹意強
The Discourse on Contemporary Art and the Globalization of the Art System - Kitty ZIJLMANS
II Disciplines Meeting: Multiple Perspectives on the Study of Art
Art and the Academic Disciplines
The Geography of Art: Historiography, Issues, and Perspectives - Thomas DaCosta KAUFMANN
Green Art Studies and the Local Subconscious - Elisabeth DE BIEVRE
Art, Aesthetics, and Cultural Anthropology: Retrospect and Prospect - Richard L. ANDERSON
Envisioning Art Worlds: New Directions in the Anthropology of Art - Paula D. GIRSHICK
III The Arts and Our Shared Humanity: The Bioevolutionary Basis of Art-Making and Perception
The Arts After Darwin: Does Art Have an Origin and Adaptive Function? - Ellen DISSANAYAKE
Neuroarthistory: Making More Sense of Art - John ONIANS
IV Comparative Approaches: Differences and Commonalities
Intercultural Comparison and Art
Constructed Identities: Portraiture in World Art - Jean M. BORGATTI
Portraiture and Social Stratification - Donald E. BROWN
The Common Humanity Evident in European, African, Indian, Chinese, and Japanese Aesthetic Theory - Ben-Ami SCHARFSTEIN
V Encounters: Intercultural Exchanges
Interculturalization in Art: Conceptualizing Processes and Products
Primitivism: The Primordium Lost and Found and Reinvented - Colin RHODES
Modernities in Art: How Are They 'Other'? - John CLARK, 姜苦樂
World Art Studies: Exploring Concepts and Approaches
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