The Folding Screen of Kitsch by Shahnewaz Kabir

“… Kitsch, a relatively recent concept in Western art and literature, has given birth to a great deal of debate and discussion. …”
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The structure and musical styles of bilingual musical theatre in Malaysia by Loo, Fung Chiat, Loo, Fung Ying, Toon, Elaine Swan Chien

“…Deriving from the Western art form, musical theatre by local Malaysian productions has been increasing since the last decade. …”
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The structure and musical styles of bilingual musical theatre in Malaysia by Loo, Fung Chiat, Loo, Fung Ying, Toon, Elaine Swan Chien

“…Deriving from the Western art form, musical theatre by local Malaysian productions has been increasing since the last decade. …”
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The fiction of Zora Neale Hurston: an assertion of black womanhood* The fiction of Zora Neale Hurston: an assertion of black womanhood* by Rita Terezinha Schmidt

“…Certain ideas, perpetuated in the theory andpractice of literature, (such as the domain of the male creatorthrough whose agency and power man acquired the Word, becomingthe sacer vates, or the exclusively male transcendental images
 of creativity as opposed to earth-bound images of female nature),
 which have invested all significance in the experience, ideasand discourse of men, are now being called to question.Retrieving woman's texts and the literary expression of thefemale experience is a sign of basic changes in the
 consciousness of western art and society and a task in which weall should join as professionais concerned with the relationshipbetween women and literature. …”
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Introduction: The New Face of Trans Visual Culture by Ace Lehner

“…I will discuss how his work shifts the understanding of identity and representation to one decoupled from optical ontology and how he works to unseat White masculinity as the center of Western art and visual culture.…”
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Perceptivna primerjava kot temelj filozofije umetnosti by Harry Lehmann

“…Here the author introduces a theory of reflexive values and by the help of this theory, he is able to reconstruct major caesuras in the history of the Western art.…”
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Power, agency, deference and difference Examining the politics of composer–performer relationships in the wake of recent innovations by John Aulich

“…With a view to uncovering the political implications of notational, technological and musical innovation in composer–performer relationships within Western art music, this paper examines three disparate works: Christian Wolff’s Duo for Pianists II (1958); Brian Ferneyhough’s Unity Capsule (1975); and Georg Hajdu’s Schwer… unheimlich Schwer (2009). …”
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Symbolsk og veristisk identitet: Portrettkunst i Burgund 1380–1480 by Ragnhild M. Bø

“… – In the history of Western art, one tends to see the renaissance as the time when portraiture starts to denominate representations of particular individuals, one of many rebirths of the Roman Antiquity. …”
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Addressing gender inequality in and through music composing studies by Heidi Partti, Kirsty Devaney

“…Composing remains a male-dominated field within the domain of Western art music. Through analysis of two case studies of composing education schemes in Finland (Equity in Composing/Yhdenvertaisesti säveltäen), and England (Young Composers Project), this paper seeks to better understand how music education may play a role in addressing and alleviating gender inequality in music composing. …”
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Remaking classical music: cultures of creativity in Pleasure Garden by Browning, J

“…Through this, I argue that Pleasure Garden’s creators negotiated a space that was inside, yet sometimes out of alignment with what I call the ‘cultures of creativity’ associated with Western art music, the music industries, late capitalism, and neoliberalism. …”

Involving experiences: audiencing and co-reception in Pleasure Garden by Browning, J

“…I also discuss the effects of several overlapping cultures of ‘audiencing’ associated with Western art music, sound art and other forms of cultural experience – variously individualistic, distracted and participatory – characteristic of late capitalism. …”

Realism Relativized: A Cultural-Historical Approach to What Images Capture by Prinz, Jesse

“…Realism has been understood differently at different times in Western art history art, and art-making traditions elsewhere often aspire to forms of realism that contrast with forms operative in the West. …”
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Caracterul național în dansul cult, din secolul al XX-lea până în prezent by Denisa Badea

“…The artistic journey that laid the foundations of the local choreographic culture presents contents – librettos inspired by Romanian fairy tales or stories, the use of musical compositions with folkloric insertions, the use of an aesthetic mixture between classical forms of movement and popular forms, but also a strong opening to the Western art. In the field of classical dance, the effervescence of the quests to define a distinct 'national' voice tends to fade at the beginning of the 21st century, in the absence of updating the repertoires of national operas, at the same time with precarious connections to contemporary sensitivity and culture.…”
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The Saqqa-khaneh Calligraphy-Painting Movement in Iran by Saeid Zakeri

“…Abiding by Iranian tradition was not the primary engine driving Saqqa-khaneh art, nor was it to emulate western art. Contemporary Iranian artists have enriched Persian script endowing it with variety and aesthetic intention and have produced many masterpieces, particularly when calligraphy is combined with pictorial language. …”
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Traces of knowledge and use of cues of sensory processing in ancient Greek art by Antonio M. Duarte, Niki P. Constantinidi

“…Results suggest an intuitive knowledge of these processes by ancient Greek artists (probably based both on personal experience and social sharing), which aligns with the seminal role of ancient Greek art both in the extended use of those cues in western art and in the modulation of a “western way” of appreciating art. …”
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The Artist, the Image and the Self: Representation in Rembrandt, Bacon, Mapplethorpe, Sherman, and Nan Goldin by Luiz Sérgio de Oliveira

“…From one brushstroke to another, this mediated gesture marked the perception of the self. Western art highlights numerous works from artists who wrote the history of culture through portraiture and self-representation. …”
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African arts between curios, antiquities, and avant-garde at the Maison Brummer, Paris (1908-1914) by Yaëlle Biro

“…Helped by his brothers Imre (1889-1928) and Ernest (1891-1964), he promoted original art-forms that were not previously integral to the Western art canon. Juxtaposing works from Africa with art of Medieval Europe, Ancient Greece and Rome, as well as creations by living artists, the Maison Brummer blurred the boundaries that existed between these fields of collecting and was instrumental in awakening the interest of many collectors and museum professionals. …”
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Revisioning Stalinist discourse of art: Mikhail Liebman’s academic networks and his social art history by Krista Kodres

“…I argue that it was the official socialist system of internationalisation which allowed Liebman to attend international forums in his discipline, and hence to be in dialogue with the contemporary Western art historical discourse(s). I also ask how, given the paucity of sources and the ideologically ambivalent conditions in which art historical texts in Soviet Union were created, one can find the right code for reading socialist art histories?…”
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Islamic Art and Spirituality / by Hossein Nasr, Seyyed, 1933-, author 208503

“…By rediscovering the root of art in the Islamic tradition, Seyyed Hossein Nasr opens doors to new dimensions of unity which have seemingly been obscured in recent Western art. In so doing, he extends the significance of this book beyond the Islamic belief system to touch the hearts and creative impulses of readers from all traditions"--Back cover…”

Van Gogh : THE LIFE / by Naifeh, Steven, 1952-, author 647235, Smith, Gregory White, author 647236

“…Working with the full cooperation of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, Naifeh and Smith have accessed a wealth of previously untapped materials to bring a crucial understanding to the larger-than-life mythology of this great artist: his early struggles to find his place in the world; his intense relationship with his brother Theo; and his move to Provence, where he painted some of the best-loved works in Western art. The authors also shed new light on many unexplored aspects of Van Gogh’s inner world: his erratic and tumultuous romantic life; his bouts of depression and mental illness; and the cloudy circumstances surrounding his death at the age of thirty-seven. …”