Sullivan Michael. The Meeting of Eastern and Western Art: From the Sixteenth Century to the Present Day

New York: Graphic Society, 1973. — 302 p.I feel that I owe it to the reader to explain the scope of this book, why it covers the ground it does, and in particular why it does not deal with the interaction between the West on the one hand and India and the Islamic world on the other, but only with the West and the Far East. It is not that the Indian and Islamic influences are not important. On the contrary, the influence of the Near East on the art of Europe in classical and mediaeval times was enormous, while Europe and America have had a profound effect on the art of southern and western Asia, particularly in the twentieth century. Since the sixteenth century Indian crafts have enriched European textiles, while a few Western artists, notably Rodin, Gauguin and Epstein, have admired and understood Indian sculpture. Moreover, the breaking down of traditional religious and philosophical prejudices has made people in the West, and particularly the younger generation, receptive as never before to Indian ideals, and to the expression of these ideals in art. Every pad has its mandala.