Western Art and the Wider World

"Western Art and the Wider World is certainly a timely myth-buster in terms of current anxieties and panics about the demise of the West's supposed cultural and economic place at the centre of things. Wood traces a long history of admiration and indebtedness to the East - in terms of knowledge, art, commerce and governance. He also asserts that the history of western 'cultural dominance' has been relatively short - less than 200 years in his reckoning. Western Art and the Wider World tells stories of exchange, parity and mutual curiosity between the West and rest." (The Visual Artists' News Sheet, 1 March 2014)
"A cautious, open-minded attempt to write about the history of Western Art form the Renaissance through the early and late modernist era, as it encountered, and was encountered by, the rest of the world." (Art Review, 1 March 2014)