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For any introductory course in Humanities or Interdisciplinary Arts Appreciation. This text presents an overview of the arts in the Western tradition; in the contexts of the philosophy, religion, aesthetic theory, economics, and politics surrounding them. It is an historical introduction to the humanities yielding a basic familiarity with major styles and their implications as well as a sense of the historical development of individual arts media.

FROM PAST TO PRESENT: A PICTURE ESSAY.

18. From a Modern to Postmodern World.
How Art Works—Postmodernism. Contexts and Concepts. The Arts from Modernism to Postmodernism. Focal Point: An Outpouring of Ethnicity.

Glossary.
Notes.
Further Reading.
Index.

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Creative Impulse, The: An Introduction to the Arts

Creative Impulse, The: An Introduction to the Arts

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