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World Art Studies
World Art Studies
Author: Richard Anderson, Elizabeth De Bievre, Jean Borgatti, Donald Brown, John Clark, Thomas Kaufmann, Ellen Dissanayake, James Elkins, Paula Ben Amos Girshick, Marlite Halbertsma, John Onians, Ulrich Pfisterer, Colin Rhodes, Ben-Ami Scharfstein
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 Ar...  more » 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.
ISBN-13: 9789078088226
ISBN-10: 9078088222
Publication Date: 10/1/2008
Pages: 496
Edition: illustrated edition
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Publisher: Valiz
Book Type: Paperback
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