This book presents materialist and psychological theories in relation to specific artworks. Researchers and students studying art, psychology, or human imagination can use this as an important guide to understanding abstract art, or as a key text for courses on modern art.
There are now many books on postcolonial theory, yet relatively few of them gather together sustained, dynamic and insightful analyses of visuality, art and art history outside of hegemonic Euro-American themes and concerns. Global and Local Art Histories explores what it means to have a global and local experience of art. The 15 essays published here suggest ways of interpreting works of art from a broad range of cultural perspectives, many of them transcultural.