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• COVER PAGE
• CROSS-CULTURAL ISSUES IN ART
• TITLE PAGE
• COPYRIGHT PAGE
• FIGURES
• PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• PERMISSIONS
• INTRODUCTION
• CHAPTER 1: ART, CULTURE, AND HYBRIDITY
• Conclusion
• CHAPTER 2: PRIMITIVISM AND OTHERNESS
• Defining primitivism
• Otherness: a critical view
• Otherness: the idealist view
• Conclusion
• CHAPTER 3: COLONIALISM
• Historical background
• Legacy of colonialism
• Conclusion
• CHAPTER 4: NATIONALISM
• Arguments against understanding art in relationship to nationalism
• Arguments for understanding art in relationship to nationalism
• The role of the artist in national representation
• Conclusion
• CHAPTER 5: ART AND RELIGION IN INTERCULTURAL CONTEXTS
• Symbols and the collective meaning of art
• Collective representations and religion
• Religious—spiritual, sacred—secular
• The critical role of art
• Increasing secularity of art
• Artists as shamans
• Critique of the shaman-artist
• The appearance of belief vs. actual belief
• Conclusion
• CHAPTER 6: SYMBOLISM, MEANING, AND INTERPRETATION
• Conclusion
• CHAPTER 7: STYLE AND ETHNICITY
• Style
• Ethnicity and intercultural art
• Ethnicity and national style in the work of Diego Rivera
• Conclusion
• CHAPTER 8: A SENSE OF PLACE
• Foundations of Chinese aesthetics
• A sense of place in Chinese landscape painting
• Zen Buddhism and art
• Comparative analysis of place
• Sense of place
• Influence of Asian art and aesthetics
• Conclusion
• CHAPTER 9: ART AND SOCIAL ORDER: A SYSTEMS VIEW
• A systems orientation to art
• Art and ethics
• Conclusion
• CHAPTER 10: GENDER AND JAPONISME
• The social critique of gender in the West
• Feminism in art
• Interpretation of specific works and historical revisionism
• Issues of representation
• Gender specialization in style, medium, and materials
• Gender and art in classical Japan: further consideration of gender and style
• Women’s relationship to their bodies and emotions in art
• Gender and Japonisme: cross-cultural issues in gender
• Conclusion
• CHAPTER 11: THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF “SELF” IN ART
• An approach to the self through comparative analysis in art
• Contrasting conceptions of the self in China and Japan
• Conclusion
• GLOSSARY
• NOTES
• 1 Art, culture, and hybridity
• 2 Primitivism and Otherness
• 3 Colonialism
• 4 Nationalism
• 5 Art and religion in intercultural contexts
• 6 Symbolism, meaning, and interpretation
• 7 Style and ethnicity
• 8 A sense of place
• 9 Art and social order: a systems view
• 10 Gender and Japonisme
• 11 The phenomenology of “self” in art
• BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
• BIBLIOGRAPHY