Cross-Cultural Issues in Art: Frames for Understanding

by Steven M. Leuthold

Overview

Cross-Cultural Issues in Art provides an engaging introduction to aesthetic concepts, expanding the discussion beyond the usual Western theorists and Western examples.

Steven Leuthold discusses both contemporary and historical issues and examples, incorporating a range of detailed case studies from African, Asian, European, Latin American, Middle Eastern and Native American art. Individual chapters address broad intercultural issues in art, including Art and Culture, Primitivism and Otherness, Colonialism, Nationalism, Art and Religion, Symbolism and Interpretation, Style and Ethnicity, A Sense of Place, Art and Social Order, Gender, and the Self, considering these themes as constructs that frame our understanding of art.

Cross-Cultural Issues in Art draws upon ideas and case studies from cultural and critical studies, art history, ethno-aesthetics and area studies, visual anthropology, and philosophy, and will be useful for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in these fields.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781136854545
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/16/2010
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	336
File size:	11 MB
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About the Author

Steven M. Leuthold, PhD, is a professor of art and design history at Northern Michigan University. He previously taught art and design theory at Syracuse University and, as a doctoral candidate, courses in aesthetic and political communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Leuthold's research concerns global art and design history and comparative aesthetics. His most recent book is Beauty and Power: Global Design, 1840-1914. Leuthold's first book was Indigenous Aesthetics: Native Art, Media, and Identity; it was followed by Cross-Cultural Issues in Art: Frames for Understanding. He has published in academic journals such as The Journal of Aesthetic Education, Art Criticism, Ethnohistory, Multicultural Education, and Film Criticism. Leuthold is also a practicing artist and musician. Some of his creative work can be viewed at stevenmleuthold.com.

Table of Contents

Selected Contents: List of Figures Preface and Acknowledgements Permissions Introduction 1. Art, Culture and Hybridity 2. Primitivism and Otherness 3. Colonialism 4. Nationalism 5. Art and Religion 6. Symbolism, Meaning and Interpretation 7. Style and Ethnicity 8. A Sense of Place 9. Art and Social Order 10. Gender 11. Self Glossary Biographical Notes Bibliography

Editorial Reviews

'Steven Leuthold has created a perspective on art that is intricate in its focus yet global in its embrace. It is wildly refreshing. With a painterly style of prose, colorful and textured, and a deep understanding of the theories and studies that precede him, Leuthold has dared, where others have not, to focus on art for the sake of world understanding, no less. This is a book that will inspire generations of students to journey the world with an eye on the visualities offered up by its cultural and individual geographies and another on the universal nature of its very palpitations.' – Liza Bakewell, Assistant Professor of Research, Brown University, USA

'Cross-Cultural Issues in Art presents a lucid consideration of the foremost works of art, themes and artists that affirm both the specificity and universality of the human experience. Through careful analysis and critical comparisons of objects, installations, sculptures and paintings of the past and present Professor Leuthold places these culture crossing issues within the framework of an increasingly interdependent and unequal world. His clear prose and respect of the works of art in and of themselves is refreshingly radical.' – Alejandro Anreus, Associate Professor of Art History and Latin American/Latino Studies, William Paterson University, USA

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