文档介绍：Cross-Cultural Issues in Art
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 crit-
ical studies, art history, ethno-aesthetics and area studies, visual anthropology, and
philosophy, and will be useful for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in these fields.
Steven M. Leuthold is Associate Professor of Art History at Northern Michigan University,
USA. His research and teaching interests include intercultural art theory parative
aesthetics, modern art and design history, and Native American, Japanese, European, and
other world art. He is the author of Indigenous Aesthetics: Native Art, Media and Identity
(1998) and has contributed to numerous books and journals. He is also a practicing artist
and musician.
“Stephen 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 it