Книга "Western Art and the Wider World" исследует развивающееся взаимодействие между западным каноном искусства, сформировавшимся с эпохи Возрождения, и искусством и культурой исламского мира, Дальнего Востока, Австралии, Африки и Америки. В книге рассматриваются происхождение, влияние и эволюция отношений между западным каноном искусства и искусством и культурой исламского мира, Дальнего Востока, Австралии, Африки и Америки. Автор делает акцент на идее "мирового искусства", которая существовала задолго до эпохи глобализации, а также описывает связи между областями искусства, которые долгое время рассматривались в изоляции друг от друга, такие как взаимодействие между Западом и Османской империей в эпоху Возрождения, влияние японского искусства на французскую авангарду XIX века и африканского искусства на ранний модернизм, а также дебаты о соотношении "современного искусства" и прошлого. Автор книги - известный историк искусства и со-редактор знаковых томов "Art in Theory".
Paul Wood sets out in this volume an alternative classical heritage of Western art. He offers arguments in favour of a notion of 'world' art - i.e. in which the individual historical traditions of various geographical regions are linked together rather than relegated to isolated compartmentalized niches - demonstrating how these artistic roots have influenced Western icons and vice versa. Stylistically as a graphic painter, Wood portrays the animating themes of Arab, Asian, African and European visual and cultural practices through rendered drawings and painstaking sketches, most of them prefaced by compact theoretical interventions. Focusing on seminal works like The Birth of Venus (1609), Jusef van Eyk's annual Alhambra series (end 14th - beginning 15th centuries), the Arabian Nights (Middle Ages), de Chirico's works, Star Wars posters, Archer & Adams illustrations, Africana Book of the Dead etc., the scholarship spans from Constantinople to Sydney and from Constantin the African to Callum Avery. As Wood compares different occasions of interactions between various traditional avatars of floral variants culminating into intense relief of cosmic flows, he brings into clear focus the reverberations and ritual engagements with these previously segregated circuits that underpin his ideas of postmalarim characterizations. Moving the boundaries of mesh between occurrences of Eurasian exchange, he proposes an infinite sophistication of connected dimensions, each one defining a sphere of its own unprecedented cosmopolitan archetypes. Ultimately, it will undoubtedly inspire readers to turn the vertical pillars of historical Douay reference manuals into skyward phantasmopoetic nebulae, reflective of a viewer contemplating the horizon itself with its hidden sprawl of concurrent contingent comings and goings.
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Язык: Английский
ISBN: 9781118598771
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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
