19世纪晚期,欧洲与非西方艺术的接触规模空前。从19世纪中期开始,多方面的发展使这些艺术引起了更为广泛的关注,愈演愈烈的贸易、传教活动和殖民主义,加之交通工具和通讯的改善,使外国的艺术品可以在民族学博物馆和世界博览会上展览,例如,它们也在各种书籍和学术期刊上得到刊登和研究。19世纪下半叶,欧洲以外的装饰艺术也开始影响欧洲设计师,然而20世纪的前几十年,来自非洲、大洋洲和美国本土的 In the late 19th century, European contacts with non-Western art were unprecedented in scale. Since the mid-nineteenth century, various developments have drawn more attention to these arts. The increasing trade, missionary activities and colonialism, together with the improvement of transport and communications, have allowed foreign artworks to be displayed at ethnographic museums and Exhibitions at the World’s Fair, for example, are also published and studied in various books and academic journals. In the second half of the 19th century, decorative arts outside Europe began to influence European designers. However, in the first decades of the 20th century, artisans from Africa, Oceania and the United States