Study of the Structural components and Meaning of the Headstones in the Shrine of Hazrat Suleiman (AS) in Shiraz during the Qajar Period by Elahe Panjehpashi

“…The result of the research shows that the design of this pediment and columns was influenced by the art of the Qajar period with the influence of Western art in the field of Iranian culture and the politics of the relationship between religion and art in the Qajar period, and it provided the reasons for the fusion of the achievements of Iranian-Islamic and Western art.…”
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Musiikin aatehistoriaa by Erkki Huovinen

“…Tekstejä 1990–2022 (Music, Ideas, History: Texts 1990–2022) Matti Huttunen sheds light on the world of Western art music by showing how past historiographies of music have given it form and meaning. …”
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La manualistica per la storia della musica by Fabrizio Della Seta

“…The introduction to the panel discussion brings up the question of how it is possible to write the history of music – mostly, but not exclusively, that of the tradition of Western art music – in an age in which the historical perspective is no longer given precedence over theoretical-synchronic and ethno-anthropological approaches. …”
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Beauty and ugliness in Olmec monumental sculpture by Claude-François Baudez

“…Beauty and ugliness in Olmec monumental sculpture. Since our Western art tradition has put such a prize on naturalism, we tend to think that other civilizations valued it as much as we did and do. …”
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Le Musée textuel d’Anita Brookner, ou comment essayer d’en finir avec les images by Laurence Petit

“…Brookner’s use of the image strictly in absentia, through nothing but words, as well as her allusions only to actual paintings by the Great Masters of Western art, convey to her novels an erudite and didactic dimension while strongly anchoring her fiction in the real world. …”
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Postwar art and historical roots of Beirut's cosmopolitanism by Rogers, Sarah A. (Sarah Anne)

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Iconotropy: everything or nothing? by A. A. Donohue

“…The collection of essays edited by Jorge Tomás García and Sandra Sáenz-López Pérez presents a chronologically wide range of examples in Western art of changes in the appearance or interpretation of ‘cult images’ considered in the light of Robert Graves’s concept of ‘iconotropy’. …”
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The Political Basis of Abstraction in the 20th Century as Explored by a Painter by Samia Halaby

“…The paper ends with an examination of contemporary discourse in the Western art world that attempts to erase the internationalism of abstraction and, thereby, marginalize non-Western practitioners.…”
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Le patrimoine photographique malien et ses enjeux by Érika Nimis

“…This article addresses the more recent projects, initiated, in whole or in part, by Malian players, while pointing out that these projects follow in the footsteps of the recognition of the works of Bamako studio photographers Seydou Keita and Malick Sidibé, initially supported by the Western art market. This article thus attempts to trace the main outline of this movement for recognition which, having its starting point in initiatives coming from outside in the 1990s, gradually led the political and cultural authorities of Mali to consider the heritage value of the photographic archives preserved in the country, as part of a democratic revival.…”
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Scripting Inclusion by Merzaban, Amanda Sayed

“…Efforts to bring underrepresented modernist women artists of Arabic speaking countries into the scope of Western art exhibitions has been on the rise, particularly since the early 2000s. …”
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Listening as the Work of Co-Composing: by Shierry Weber Nicholsen

“…Rather, my aim is to elaborate Adorno’s conception of the work of listening in some detail, in the context of his thinking about what he calls ›the new music‹ and its place in the history of Western art music.…”
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Criteri fondanti per una didattica musicale audiotattile by Vincenzo Caporaletti

“…The recent introduction of jazz and pop/rock courses in the curricula of Conservatories impels us to reflect on the role that pedagogical orientations and value criteria referring to fields of application, methods and goals other than those of the Western art musical tradition have played in these same higher education institutions. …”
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We hope, we dream, we fear by Liew, Thomas Shen Yi

“…Christian art in the context of western art history served as a mirror to the societies that produced it, depicting crucial biblical scenes as a reflection of strongly felt values. …”
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Between realism and re-enactment: navigating dramatic and musical ‘problems’ in voyage to the moon by Browning, J, Davidson, JW

“…How do practitioners understand the relationship between performance, history and emotion in Western art music? Based on an ethnographic study of a contemporary pasticcio opera, we take the rehearsal room as an important, yet often overlooked, site in which creative artists imagine and perform different relationships with their musical and cultural heritage. …”

Getting a Good Man to Love: Popular Romance Fiction and the Problem of Patriarchy by Catherine Roach

“…The story of romance is the most powerful narrative in Western art and culture, sharing roots with Christianity and functioning as a mythic story about the meaning and purpose of life, particularly in regards to the HEA ending of redemption and wholeness. …”
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Bilan chronologique de la culture nok et nouvelles datations sur des sculptures by Claire Boullier, Alain Person, Jean-François Saliège, Jean Polet

“…Since the beginning of the nineties, the Jos region (central Nigeria) has suffered considerable plunder of its archaeological sites, and several thousands of sculptures have thus been unearthed essentially to supply the western art market. Inside some of these sculptures, studied as part of a dissertation thesis, pieces of charcoal were discovered and dated by radiocarbon. …”
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Chinese Calligraphy: An Ancient Art in the Modern Era by Chen Ziyuan

“…In the future, Chinese calligraphy will fully absorb the essence of western art, making this ancient art full of new vitality.…”
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So Sorry––Never Sorry. Ai Weiwei’s Art between Tradition and Modernity by Tania Becker

“…Ai Weiwei’s unique stance between current trends in western art and the Chinese feeling for handicrafts is also explored.…”
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The Mirror in Art: Vanitas, Veritas, and Vision by Helena Goscilo

“…Humankind’s venerable obsession with the mirror, traceable to the ancient myths of Medusa and Narcissus, is copiously attested in Western art, which historically relied on the mirror as both practical tool and polysemous trope. …”
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Kristeva's Severed Head in Iraq: Antoon’s The Corpse Washer by Frances L. Restuccia

“…Insofar as The Corpse Washer demonstrates the validity of Kristevan psychoanalytic theory for non-Western art/artists, it implies the universality of that theory, despite ethnicity, race, religion, etc.  …”
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