Provides students with more visual information to deepen their understanding of the art traditions discussed.
Familiarizes students with ways in which traditional arts and ideas about the arts have changed in recent decades.
Familiarizes students with the ways in which hybrid art forms are now emerging around the world as a result of the increased contact between peoples of the world.
Provides students with a variety of plausible and illuminating ways of looking at art that are foreign to Western assumptions.
Provides students with primary data drawn from the logic and assumptions of the people who produce the art.
Provides students with valuable information presented in straightforward, jargon-free language.
Provides students with ideas regarding art's fundamental nature and the role of art in human affairs.
Familiarizes students with a diverse group of cross cultural differences and similarities.
Enables students to see the art works under examination.
