World Art Studies:exploring Concepts And Approaches

A timely volume 'World Art Studies' examines the phenomenon of art through a broader cultural, global, and temporal perspective. It brings together a unique range of perspectives on art and borrows writings and approaches from the study of neuroscience, evolutionary biology, anthropology and geography as models – alongside more conventional art historical perspectives. In musicology or linguistics, the use of 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. Includes contributions by, Richard L. Anderson, Jean M. Borgatti, Donald E. Brown, Cao Yiqiang, Ulrich Pfisterer, Wilfred van Damme and Kitty Zijlmans.