Paul 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

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List of Illustrations viii

Acknowledgments x

Introduction 1

1 Renaissance and Old World 12

2 Enlightenment and New World 52

3 Modernism and Modern World 100

4 Avant-Garde, Contemporary, and Globalized World 185

5 ‘World Art History’ and ‘Contemporary Art’ 253

Index 292

Sobre el autor

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.