Arts and Culture : An Introduction to the Humanities
by Benton, Janetta Rebold; Diyanni, RobertEdition: Reprint
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1998-12-01
Publisher(s): Prentice Hall
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Summary
Richly illustrated, beautifully designed, and engaging, this introduction to the humanities offers a thorough yet accessible integrated exploration of Western civilization's cultural heritage -- with an emphasis on cultural achievements in the arts of literature, philosophy, religion, painting, music, sculpture, and architecture. Multi-cultural in approach and organized chronologically from prehistory to the Renaissance, it provides an historical, (political, economic, socially) and cultural framework to help students understand how cultural achievements emerged from a specific time and place and how, in some instances, they reflected non-Western influences.
Table of Contents
| consists of Chs. 13-24 the Combined Volume consists of Chs. 1-24.) | |
| The Dawn of Culture | |
| Ancient Egypt | |
| Aegean Culture and the Rise of Ancient Greece | |
| Classical and Hellenistic Greece | |
| The Roman World | |
| Judaism and the Rise of Christianity | |
| Byzantine & Islamic Civilizations | |
| Indian Civilization | |
| Early Chinese & Japanese Civilizations | |
| The Civilizations of the Americas | |
| The Early Middle Ages and the Romanesque | |
| The Gothic and Late Middle Ages | |
| The Renaissance and Mannerism in Italy | |
| The Renaissance in the North | |
| The Baroque Age | |
| The Eighteenth Century | |
| Romanticism and Realism | |
| The Belle Ãêpoque | |
| Chinese and Japanese Civilizations | |
| Russian Civilization | |
| The Age of Anxiety | |
| Modern Africa and Latin America | |
| The Age of Affluence | |
| The Diversity of Contemporary Life | |
| Glossary | |
| Picture Credits and Further Information | |
| Literature and Music Credits | |
| Index | |
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