Art in Theory The West in the World - An Anthology of Changing Ideas

Part I Encountering the World 1

a Figures of Wealth and Power 9

b Across the Ocean Sea 40

c Scholarly Responses 66

Part II Enlightenment and Expansion 101

a The Orient in Fact and Fancy 109

b Curiosities and Colonies 137

c Changing Ideas and Values 172

Part III Revolution, Romanticism, Reaction 209

a History: Between Spirit and Science 215

b Visions of the Exotic 253

c Missionaries, Managers and Resistance 289

Part IV Modernity and Empire 325

a Enduring Fictions and Transformed Spaces 329

b Society, Evolution and the Idea of 'Race' 357

c Anthropology, Museums and the Origins of Art 393

d The World in View: Travellers and Teachers 428

Part V The Significance of the 'Primitive' 463

a Authenticity, Form and Feeling 467

b The Reach of Empire 494

Part VI In a World of Colonies 529

a Modern, Primitive, Universal 535

b Western Civilization: For and Against 565

c The Challenge of the Avant-Garde 612

Part VII Independence and the Post-colonial 661

a Resituating Theory and Politics 667

b Exhibitions, Museums and Histories Reimagined 706

c Beyond Modernism 746

d Asserting Identity 785

Part VIII The Global Turn 821

a Critical Revisions: Theory and History 827

b Diversity: Translation, Creolization and Identity 876

c Global Art and the Museum 930

d Concerning the Contemporary 976