Western theories of beauty are not universal; over time, other cultures and civilizations independently developed their own unique ideas about beauty. This lecture will survey theories of beauty from select countries as diverse as India, China, Japan and Africa. The bronze gods and goddesses of Gupta India, towering landscape paintings of Sung China, lopsided tea cups demonstrating wabi sabi from Muromachi, Japan, and seventy-five- pound wooden masks from West Africa will be discussed from the point of view of indigenous ideas about beauty. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Western artists discovered the art from these faraway places and began to reconsider their own ideas of beauty.