World art studies [ Texto impreso] : exploring concepts and approaches / edited by Kitty Zijlmans, Wilfried van Damme.

Prelude : Keeping the world together / Ben-Ami Scharfstein (p. 11) ; Introducing world art studies / Wilfried van Damme (p. 23) -- I. Historiography: Envisioning Global Approaches in the Study of Art: Origins and principles of world art history : 1900 (and 2000) / Ulrich Pfisterer (p. 69) ; The many beginnings and the one end of world art history in Germany, 1900-1933 / Marlite Halbertsma (p. 91) ; Can we invent a world art studies? / James Elkins (p. 107) ; World art studies and the historiography of Chinese art / Cao Yiqiang (p. 119) ; The discourse on contemporary art and the globalization of the art system / Kitty Zijlmans (p. 135) -- II. Disciplines Meeting: Multiple Perspectives on the Study of Art: Art and the academic disciplines (p. 157) ; The geography of art : historiography, issues, and perspectives / Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann (p. 183) ; Green art studies and the local subconscious / Elisabeth de Bièvre ; Art, aesthetics, and cultural anthropology : retrospect and prospect / Richard L. Anderson (p. 203) ; Envisioning art worlds : new directions in the anthropology of art / Paula D. Girshick (p. 219) -- III. The Arts and Our Shared Humanity: The Bioevolutionary Basis of Art-Making and Perception: The arts after Darwin : does art have an origin and adaptive function? / Ellen Dissanayake (p. 241) ; Neuroarthistory : making more sense of art / John Onians (p. 265) -- IV. Comparative Approaches: Difference and Commonalities: Intercultural comparison and art (p. 293) ; Constructed identities : portraiture in world art / Jean M. Borgatti (p. 303) ; Portraiture and social stratification / Donald E. Brown (p. 325) ; The common humanity evident in European, African, Indian, Chinese, and Japanese aesthetic theory / Ben-Ami Scharfstein (p. 343) -- V. Encounters: Intercultural Exchanges: Interculturalization in art : conceptualizing processes and products (p. 375) ; Primitivism : the primordium lost and found and reinvented / Colin Rhodes (p. 385) ; Modernities in art : how are they "other"? / John Clark (p. 401)

"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 Studies 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." (cubierta posterior)