While working as a columnist for the Charlotte Observer, he shared in a Pulitzer Prize Journalism and Public Service given to the Observer in 1981 for the Observer’s columns devoted to the daily lives of their readers.  He has taught at the Philadelphia University of Art; the University of Florida; Yale University; Arizona State University; the University of North Carolina Charlotte; California Polytechnic Institute Pomona; and the University of Stockholm, Sweden.

          He has authored seven books, published over 300 articles in news papers and magazines, and given over 10,000 lectures and guided tours through museums and historical sites in the United States, Latin America, and Europe. He is presently living in Asheville, North Carolina and writing text books, self-help books, and novels about Native America and the visual arts.

          About his work, the author says, “My work puts special emphasis on the contextual character of the visual arts. The arts have always existed in many active give-and-take or autocatalytic relationships with the world around them. The arts absorb ideas from religion, philosophy, politics, society at large, and every other area of thought; forge their own forms of visual expression, and, in turn, they influence the world around them in ways that only the visual arts can do.”

2) Full Table of Contents

BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Chapter 1. Introduction: Art Beyond the West

Chapter 2. The Islamic World

Chapter 3. India and Southeast Asia

Chapter 4. China

Chapter 5. Japan and Korea

Chapter 6. The Pacific

Chapter 7. Africa

Chapter 8. The Americas

Chapter 9. Art Without Boundaries

FULL TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Chapter 1. Introduction: Art Beyond the West

        Non-Western Art and Aesthetics

        Coatlicue in Context

Chapter 2. The Islamic World

        Byzantium and The Umayyad Caliphate (661—750 CE)

        The Umayyads and Their Successors in Spain (711—1492)

        The Abbasid Caliphate (750—1258)

        Iran and Central Asia

        Anatolia and The Ottoman Turks (1453—1574)

Chapter 3. India and Southeast Asia

        The Indus Valley

        Buddhist Art

        Hindu Art

        Jain Art and Architecture

        Islamic India

        Colonial India

Chapter 4. China

        The Neolithic Period (C. 7000-2250 BCE)

        The Xia Dynasty (C. 2205-1700 BCE) and the Shang Dynasty (C. 1700-1045-480 BCE)

        The Han Dynasty

        The Period of Disunity: Six Dynasties (220-589 CE)

        The Sui Dynasty (589-618 CE) and the Tang Dynasty

        The Five Dynasties (907-60) and the Northern Song (960-1127) and Southern Song Dynasties (1127-1279)

        The Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368)

        The Ming Dynasty (1368-1644)

        The Qing Dynasty (1644-1911)

        Modern China (From 1911)

Chapter 5. Japan and Korea

        The Jomon Period (C. 12,000/ 10,500—300 BCE) And Yayoi Period (300 BCE—300 CE)

        The Kofun Period

        Korea: The Three Kingdoms Period (57 BCE —688 CE)

        The Asuka Period (552—645 CE) and Hakuho Period (645—710 CE)

        The Nara Period (710—94 CE)

        The Heian Period (794—1185)

        The Kamakura Period (1185—1333) and Koryo Korea (918—1392)

        The Muromachi (Ashikaga) Period (1392—1573)

        The Momoyama Period (1573—1615)

        The Tokugawa (Edo) Period (1615—1868)

        The Meiji Restoration (1868—1912)

        The Modern Period (From 1912)

Chapter 6. The Pacific

        Australia

        Melanesia

        Micronesia

        Polynesia

        The Pacific Arts Festival

Chapter 7. Africa

        The History of African Art History

        African Prehistory

        Southern Africa

        East Africa

        Central Africa

        West Africa

         Postcolonial Africa and the Quest for Contemporary Identities

        African-American Art

Chapter 8. The Americas

        South America: The Central Andes

        Mesoamerica

        Time Chart: Mesoamerica

        North America

        Native American Art in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

Chapter 9. Art Without Boundaries

        Painting and Sculpture

        Architecture

        Multimedia Expressions

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