Paul Wood is Research Associate in the Department of Art History at the Open University. He has published widely in the field of art history and is co-editor of three previous volumes of Art in Theory, recounting the development of Western art from the Academy to postmodernism. Leon Wainwright is Professor of Art History at the Open University. He is the author of Timed Out: Art and the Transnational Caribbean (2011) and Phenomenal Difference: A Philosophy of Black British Art (2017). He has co-edited studies on modern and contemporary art, anthropology and museums.

• Part I Encountering the World 1 a Figures of Wealth and Power 9b Across the Ocean Sea 40c Scholarly Responses 66Part II Enlightenment and Expansion 101a The Orient in Fact and Fancy 109b Curiosities and Colonies 137c Changing Ideas and Values 172Part III Revolution, Romanticism, Reaction 209a History: Between Spirit and Science 215b Visions of the Exotic 253c Missionaries, Managers and Resistance 289Part IV Modernity and Empire 325a Enduring Fictions and Transformed Spaces 329b Society, Evolution and the Idea of ‘Race’ 357c Anthropology, Museums and the Origins of Art 393d The World in View: Travellers and Teachers 428Part V The Significance of the ‘Primitive’ 463a Authenticity, Form and Feeling 467b The Reach of Empire 494Part VI In a World of Colonies 529a Modern, Primitive, Universal 535b Western Civilization: For and Against 565c The Challenge of the Avant-Garde 612Part VII Independence and the Post-colonial 661a Resituating Theory and Politics 667b Exhibitions, Museums and Histories Reimagined 706c Beyond Modernism 746d Asserting Identity 785Part VIII The Global Turn 821a Critical Revisions: Theory and History 827b Diversity: Translation, Creolization and Identity 876c Global Art and the Museum 930d Concerning the Contemporary 976

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