Abstrakcia: Za hranicami západného sveta
Abstraction: On Beyond the Western World

Summary/Abstract: Abstraction profoundly shaped European and American modernism in the twentieth century, but it also left a significant mark on artistic practices in Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and Australia. Consequently, the narrative of abstract painting as an exclusively Western modern invention requires closer examination. A Eurocentric approach produces a distorted value system in which certain works are regarded as more authentic than others. Such thinking, grounded in assumptions of Western primacy in artistic production, reinforces hierarchies of primary versus secondary, influencing versus influenced, and center versus periphery, as well as familiar “West versus the Other” dichotomies within modernist and avant-garde art history. This article examines the work of non-Western abstract painters in Latin America, the Arab world, India, and China, whose approaches to abstraction emerged through a sustained dialogue between local cultural traditions and intensive engagement with Western art practices.

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