TY - BOOK AU - Wood,Paul TI - Western art and the wider world SN - 1306156475 AV - N5300 U1 - 709 PY - 2014/// CY - Chichester, West Sussex PB - Wiley Blackwell KW - Art KW - History KW - ART KW - General KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Electronic books N1 - Edition statement from running title area; Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - 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 UR - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781118781401 ER -