World Art Studies

2008

Boek; 463 p ill

Met lijst werken. - Met bio- en bibliografie

Kunsttheoretische artikelenbundel brengt een breed scala van mondiale invalshoeken op kunst bij elkaar, waaronder neurobiologische, evolutiebiologische, antropologische en geografische benaderingen, naast meer conventionele kunsthistorische perspectieven. Het onderzoekt op kritische wijze de premissen en historiografie van de studie van kunst als wereldwijd verschijnsel en introduceert nieuwe concepten en denkmodellen. - 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 Studiesexamines 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

Located in: KUNSTTHEORIE

ISBN: 9789078088226

VUBIS: 2:77741