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Modernism(s) and global modernity(ies): what can modern art offer to global history? - In pursuit of universalism: Yorozu Tetsugoro and Japanese modern art By Alicia Volk. Berkeley, CA, and London: University of California Press, 2010 Pp. xiii+308. 112 illustrations, 16 in colour. Hardback £36.95, ISBN 970-0-52025952-2. - The triumph of modernism: India's artists and the avant-garde 1922–1947 By Partha Mitter. London: Reaktion Books, 2007. Pp. 271. 150 illustrations, 100 in colour. Paperback £22.50, ISBN 978-1-86189-318-5. - Modernism and the art of Muslim South Asia By Iftikar Dadi. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2010. Pp. xiv+312. 106 illustrations, 28 in colour. Hardback £37.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3358-2. - The art of modern China By Julia F. Andrews and Kuiyi Shen. Berkeley, CA, and London: University of California Press, 2012. Pp. xv+364. Hardback £55.00, ISBN 978-0-52023814-5; paperback £27.95, ISBN 978-0-52027106-7. - The revolutionary century: art in Asia, 1900–2000 By Alison Carroll. South Yarra, Victoria: Macmillan Australia, 2010. Pp. 207. 180 colour illustrations. Hardback £70.00, ISBN 978-192139417-1.
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1 A good sample of the World Art Studies approach, including an essay on neuroarthistory by its founding spirit, John Onians, may be found in Ziljmans, Kitty and Damme, Wilfried van, eds., World art studies: exploring concepts and approaches, Amsterdam: Valiz, 2008Google Scholar.
2 For example, two of the better and most widely used textbooks are Stokstad, Marilyn, Art: a brief history, 5th edn, Boston, MA: Pearson, 2011Google Scholar, and
Honour, Hugh and Fleming, John, The visual arts: a history, 7th edn, Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2007Google Scholar.
3 A very influential challenge to a singular Western model of modernity came in Gaonkar, Dilip, ed., Alternative modernities, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001Google Scholar. There was also, at almost exactly the same time, a more sociological challenge from the conference on multiple modernities held at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 2001. See
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4 There are some very useful studies outside that arc, such as Karnouk, Lilliane, Modern Egyptian Art, 1910–2000, Cairo and New York: American University in Cairo Press, 2005Google Scholar; and
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5 A senior scholar whose books have gone far to make the history of modern Indian art accessible to Western readers, Mitter has lived and taught in Britain for many years. His major works include Much maligned monsters: a history of European reactions to Indian art, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1977; Art and nationalism in colonial India 1850–1922: occidental orientations, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994; and Indian art, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.
6 It is worth noting that some secular modernizers in Islamic countries, from Atatürk to Saddam Hussein, were sympathetic or even supportive of modern art. See Shabout, Nada, ‘Preservation of Iraqi modern heritage in the aftermath of the U.S. invasion of 2003’, in Gail Levine and Elaine A. King, eds., Ethics and the visual arts, New York: Allworth Press, 2006, pp. 105–120Google Scholar.
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9 book, Andrews’, Painters and politics in the People's Republic of China, 1949–1979, University of California Press, 1994Google Scholar, is still the best work for the art and history of the Mao period.