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The Creative Impulse: An Introduction to the Arts

ISBN: 9780133490855 | 0133490858
Edition: 4th
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Prentice Hall Professional Technical Reference
Pub. Date: 9/1/1995

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Table of Contents
PICTURE CREDITS4(5)
PREFACE9(1)
Introduction: What Are the Arts and How Do We Respond to and Evaluate Them?10(18)
THE HUMANITIES AND THE ARTS12(1)
WHAT IS ART?... MORE(2)
Nonrestrictiveness13(1)
Human Enterprise14(1)
Medium of Expression14(1)
Communication14(1)
THE FUNCTIONS OF ART15(1)
Entertainment15(1)
Political and Social Commentary15(1)
Therapy15(1)
Artifact16(1)
LOOKING, LISTENING, AND RESPONDING16(8)
Two-dimensional Art17(2)
Media17(1)
Composition17(2)
Sculpture19(2)
Dimensionality19(1)
Texture19(2)
Architecture21(1)
Structure21(1)
Music22(1)
Genres22(1)
Melody and Structure22(1)
Theatre22(1)
Genres22(1)
Plot, Character, Thought, and Visual Elements22(1)
Literature23(1)
Genres23(1)
Point of View, Character, and Plot23(1)
Theme and Language23(1)
Film23(1)
EVALUATING WORKS OF ART24(4)
Types of Criticism26(1)
Formal Criticism26(1)
Contextual Criticism26(1)
Making Judgements27(1)
Craftsmanship27(1)
Communication27(1)
1 The Ancient World
28(26)
THE HUMAN JOURNEY
30(1)
ICE AGE BEGINNINGS
30(6)
Time and Ice
30(2)
TECHNOLOGY: OUR EARLIEST TOOLS
32(1)
Ice Age Culture
32(1)
Our Earliest Art
32(4)
MASTERWORK: THE WOMAN FROM WILLENDORF
33(1)
Venus Figures
34(1)
The Cave of Lascaux
34(2)
MESOPOTAMIA
36(7)
From Prehistory to History
36(1)
Summer
36(5)
Religion
36(2)
Writing
38(1)
TECHNOLOGY: THE INVENTION OF THE WHEEL
38(1)
MASTERWORK: THE TELL ASMAR STATUES
39(1)
Art
40(1)
Music
40(1)
Hammurabi and the Law
40(1)
The Assyrians
41(2)
ANCIENT EGYPT
43(8)
Religion
43(1)
OUR DYNAMIC WORLD: ANCIENT CHINA
44(1)
Art
44(1)
Materials and Conventions
45(1)
Old Kingdom
45(5)
Pyramids
45(1)
Sculpture
46(2)
MASTERWORK: THE TOMB OF NEFERTARI
48(2)
Middle Kingdom
50(1)
The Scribes
50(1)
New Kingdom
50(1)
Tutankhamun
50(1)
Theban Rock Tombs
50(1)
MUSIC
51(1)
SYNTHESIS: AKHENATON AND MONOTHEISM: THE TELL EL AMARNA PERIOD
52(2)
PROFILE: AKHENATON
53(1)
2 Archaic Greece and the Aegean
54(24)
THE MINOANS
57(1)
THE MYCENAEANS
58(2)
BETWEEN MYTH AND HISTORY
60(1)
THE ARCHAIC GREEK WORLD
61(15)
The Polis
61(1)
The Hellenes
62(1)
TECHNOLOGY: THE OLIVE PRESS
63(1)
The Persian War
63(1)
Religion
63(1)
Philosophy
64(2)
Art
66(2)
Vase Painting
66(1)
MASTERWORK: THE DIPYLON VASE
67(1)
Sculpture
68(4)
OUR DYNAMIC WORLD: NATIVE AMERICAN CULTURE
69(1)
Archaic Style
69(3)
Architecture--The Doric Order
72(1)
Music
73(1)
Literature
74(2)
Sappho
74(1)
Hesiod
75(1)
SYNTHESIS: THE ILIAD OF HOMER
76(2)
3 Greek Classicism and Hellenism
78(44)
THE CLASSICAL WORLD
80(31)
The Persian War
80(2)
The Age of Pericles
82(1)
The Peloponnesian War
83(1)
Philosophy
84(2)
Humanism and Intellectualism
84(1)
Sophistry: The Distrust of Reason
84(1)
Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle
85(1)
Literature: The Platonic Dialogues
86(5)
OUR DYNAMIC WORLD: PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION IN EAST ASIA
89(2)
History and Science
91(1)
The Classical Style
92(7)
Vase Painting
92(2)
Sculpture
94(1)
MASTERWORK: MYRON--DISCUS THROWER
95(3)
Late Classical Style
98(1)
Architecture
99(4)
MASTERWORK: THE PARTHENON
100(3)
Theatre
103(6)
Aeschylus
105(1)
PROFILE: AESCHYLUS
105(1)
Sophocles
106(1)
MASTERWORK: SOPHOCLES--OEDIPUS THE KING
106(1)
Euripides
106(1)
Aristotle's Theory of Tragedy
107(1)
Aristophanes
107(1)
Costume
107(1)
Theatre Design
107(1)
OUR DYNAMIC WORLD: THE NOK STYLE OF AFRICA
108(1)
Music
109(2)
THE HELLENISTIC AGE
111(9)
Alexander and Hellenistic Culture
111(1)
Theatre and Literature
112(1)
Philosophy and Religion
113(2)
TECHNOLOGY: HERO'S STEAM TURBINE
113(2)
Hellenistic Style
115(5)
Sculpture
115(1)
OUR DYNAMIC WORLD: QIN DYNASTY REALISM--TERRACOTTA WARRIORS
116(1)
Architecture
117(3)
SYNTHESIS: FROM IDEALISM TO REALISM--PROMETHEUS AND HECUBA
120(2)
4 The Roman Period
122(30)
ROMAN CIVILIZATION
124(1)
THE ETRUSCANS
124(1)
THE ROMAN REPUBLIC
124(8)
Military Expansion
126(1)
The Roman Civil War
127(1)
The Visual Arts and Architecture
127(3)
Wall Painting
127(2)
Sculpture
129(1)
Architecture
130(1)
Theatre
130(1)
Philosophy and Religion
131(1)
THE ROMAN EMPIRE
132(18)
Augustus
132(2)
Pax Romana
134(1)
Roman Law
135(1)
Philosophy
136(1)
Seneca
136(1)
Marcus Aurelius and Epictetus
136(1)
Plotinus: Beauty and Symbol
136(1)
Religion
136(1)
Two-dimensional Art
137(2)
Sculpture
139(4)
OUR DYNAMIC WORLD: HAN DYNASTY PAINTING
140(3)
Architecture
143(5)
MASTERWORK: THE PANTHEON
144(2)
TECHNOLOGY: CEMENT
146(2)
Music
148(1)
PROFILE: VERGIL
148(1)
Literature
149(1)
SYNTHESIS: AUGUSTUS--CLASSICAL VISIONS
150(2)
5 Judaism and Early Christianity
152(34)
THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL
155(9)
The Patriarchs
155(2)
Abraham
155(1)
Moses
155(1)
The Selection of Israel
156(1)
The Ten Commandments
157(1)
Conquest and the Judges
157(1)
The United Monarchy
158(1)
The Divided Kingdom and Exile
158(1)
The Post-exilic Period and Beyond
158(1)
PROFILE: SOLOMON
159(1)
The Hebrew Bible
159(2)
The Torah
160(1)
The Prophets
160(1)
The Writings
161(1)
Jewish Art and Architecture
161(3)
Visual Art
161(1)
MASTERWORK: THE TEMPLE OF JERUSALEM
162(2)
Music
164(1)
CHRISTIANITY
164(7)
OUR DYNAMIC WORLD: SHINTO SCULPTURE IN JAPAN
165(1)
Jesus Christ and His Teachings
165(2)
The Apostolic Mission
167(1)
The Early Christian Church
168(3)
The Popes
169(1)
Early Christian Thought
170(1)
CHRISTIANITY AND THE LATE ROMAN EMPIRE
171(3)
Diocletian and Constantine
171(2)
The Barbarians
173(1)
LATE ROMAN AND EARLY CHRISTIAN ART
174(10)
The Visual Arts and Architecture
174(1)
Visual Art
174(5)
Architecture
179(2)
Literature
181(1)
Music
181(3)
TECHNOLOGY: MATCHES
182(2)
SYNTHESIS: ST PAUL AND THE WESTERNIZATION OF CHRISTIANITY
184(2)
6 Byzantium and the Rise of Islam
186(32)
BYZANTIUM
188(17)
Justinian
188(1)
Reorganization of the Eastern Empire
189(1)
The Isaurian Emperors and Iconoclasm
190(1)
From Rise to Fall (867-1453)
190(2)
Byzantine Intellectualism
192(1)
The Arts of Byzantium
193(1)
Two-dimensional Art
193(5)
Sculpture
198(1)
MASTERWORK: THE HARBAVILLE TRIPTYCH
199(1)
Literature
200(1)
Theatre and Music
201(1)
OUR DYNAMIC WORLD: CHINESE THEATRE
202(1)
Architecture
203(2)
THE RISE OF ISLAM
205(8)
The Religion of Islam
205(3)
PROFILE: MUHAMMAD
207(1)
The Spread of Islam
208(1)
Islamic Style in the Arts
208(5)
Visual Art
208(1)
Literature
209(1)
Architecture
209(4)
SYNTHESIS: IN PRAISE OF THE EMPEROR--THE MARK OF JUSTINIAN
213(5)
PROFILE: ANTHEMIUS OF TRALLES
213(3)
TECHNOLOGY: SPANNING SPACE WITH TRIANGLES AND POTS
216(2)
7 The Early Middle Ages
218(28)
THE MIDDLE AGES
220(1)
THE MEDIEVAL CHURCH
221(3)
Devils and Division
221(1)
The Roman Papacy
221(1)
Monasticism
222(2)
PROFILE: POPE GREGORY I
223(1)
CHARLEMAGNE'S EMPIRE
224(2)
FEUDALISM
226(3)
Feudal Lords
226(1)
Serfs and Women
226(3)
TECHNOLOGY: THE VIKING SHIPS
227(2)
THE OTTONIANS
229(1)
THE VISUAL ARTS
229(8)
Manuscript Illumination and Sculpture
229(2)
Romanesque Style in Architecture and Sculpture
231(6)
MASTERWORK: THE BRONZE DOORS OF HILDESHEIM CATHEDRAL
232(2)
OUR DYNAMIC WORLD: IGBO-UKWU
234(3)
MUSIC
237(1)
Sacred Music
237(1)
Gregorian Chant
237(1)
Sequences and Tropes
237(1)
Secular Music
238(1)
LITERATURE
238(1)
THEATRE
238(2)
SYNTHESIS: THE CAROLINGIAN RENAISSANCE
240(6)
Manuscript Illumination and Wall Painting
241(3)
Sculpture
244(1)
Carolingian Design
244(1)
Song of Roland
245(1)
8 The High Middle Ages
246(32)
THE SOCIAL ORDER OF THE HIGH MIDDLE AGES
248(3)
The Rise of Cities
248(1)
The Middle Class
249(1)
TECHNOLOGY: A BETTER HORSE COLLAR
249(1)
Feudal Monarchs and Monarchies
250(1)
Chivalry
250(1)
THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH
251(4)
Reform in the Christian Church
251(1)
St Bernard of Clairvaux and Mysticism
252(1)
The Crusades
252(3)
PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY
255(3)
The Rise of Universities
255(1)
Abelard and Realism
256(1)
St Thomas Aquinas and Aristotelianism
256(2)
PROFILE: ST FRANCIS OF ASSISI
257(1)
LITERATURE
258(2)
Courtly Romances
258(1)
Dante and the Divine Comedy
258(2)
GOTHIC STYLE
260(11)
Architecture
260(7)
MASTERWORK: SALISBURY CATHEDRAL
265(2)
Sculpture
267(1)
Painting
268(3)
MUSIC
271(1)
Ars Antiqua
271(1)
THEATRE
271(4)
OUR DYNAMIC WORLD: BUDDHISM IN JAPANESE ART
272(3)
SYNTHESIS: SUGER AND THE ABBEY CHURCH OF SAINT-DENIS
275(3)
9 The Late Middle Ages
278(28)
THE END OF THE MIDDLE AGES
280(6)
Secularism and Transition
280(1)
The Hundred Years' War
281(2)
PROFILE: JOAN OF ARC
282(1)
The Secular Monarchies
283(1)
The Plague
283(1)
Economics and Industrialization
283(1)
Religion and the Great Schism
284(2)
TECHNOLOGY: KEEPING TIME
285(1)
LITERATURE
286(2)
Petrarch and Boccaccio
286(2)
Petrarch
286(1)
PROFILE: GEOFFREY CHAUCER
287(1)
Boccaccio
287(1)
Froissart's Chronicles
288(1)
ART AND ARCHITECTURE
288(11)
Late Gothic Architecture
288(2)
Late Gothic Sculpture
290(2)
Painting
292(7)
Italy
292(4)
Flanders and the North
296(1)
MASTERWORK: JAN VAN EYCK--THE ARNOLFINI MARRIAGE
297(2)
MUSIC
299(1)
Ars Nova
299(1)
Guillaume de Machaut
299(1)
OUR DYNAMIC WORLD: NOH THEATRE OF JAPAN
300(1)
THEATRE
300(1)
SYNTHESIS: THE LATE GOTHIC TEMPERAMENT IN ENGLAND
301(5)
10 The Early Renaissance
306(34)
THE RENAISSANCE
308(1)
THE RENAISSANCE VIEWPOINT
309(7)
Antiquity Revisited and Measured
309(1)
Humanism
310(1)
Neo-Platonism
310(3)
PROFILE: NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI
311(2)
Capitalism
313(1)
Discovery
313(1)
The Papal States
314(1)
Italian City-states
314(2)
TECHNOLOGY: FLYWHEELS AND CONNECTING RODS
315(1)
THE BEGINNINGS OF RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE
316(4)
Brunelleschi
318(2)
SCULPTURE
320(4)
Donatello
320(1)
Ghiberti
321(3)
PAINTING
324(9)
Masaccio
324(9)
MASTERWORK: MASACCIO--THE TRIBUTE MONEY
324(2)
The Heritage of Masaccio
326(3)
Lyrical Poetry in Painting
329(1)
OUR DYNAMIC WORLD: THE MING DYNASTY IN CHINA
330(3)
MUSIC
333(2)
Music in Renaissance Florence
333(1)
The Spread of the Renaissance Style
334(1)
THEATRE
335(1)
SYNTHESIS: FLORENCE IN THE QUATTROCENTO
336(4)
Cosimo de Medici
337(1)
Piero de Medici
338(1)
Lorenzo de Medici
339(1)
11 The High Renaissance and Mannerism
340(32)
THE HIGH RENAISSANCE
342(1)
SOUTHERN EUROPE IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY
343(8)
The Expanding World
343(3)
OUR DYNAMIC WORLD: INDIA FROM ALEXANDER TO AKBAR
345(1)
The Ottoman Turks
346(1)
The Italian Wars
346(1)
The Papal States
347(2)
TECHNOLOGY: LEONARDO: TURNING THE SCREW
348(1)
Spain's Golden Century
349(2)
THE VISUAL ARTS
351(10)
The High Renaissance
351(8)
Leonardo da Vinci
351(2)
PROFILE: MICHELANGELO
353(1)
Michelangelo
354(2)
MASTERWORK: MICHELANGELO--DAVID
356(1)
Raphael
357(1)
Titian and Tintoretto: The High Renaissance in Venice
358(1)
Mannerism
359(2)
ARCHITECTURE
361(2)
THE PERFORMING ARTS
363(3)
Music
363(1)
Drama
364(2)
Commedia dell' Arte
364(2)
LITERATURE
366(2)
Baldassare Castiglione
366(1)
Ludovico Ariosto
366(2)
SYNTHESIS: PAPAL SPLENDOR--THE VATICAN
368(4)
12 Renaissance and Reformation in Northern Europe
372(32)
THE REFORMATION
374(8)
The Background
374(2)
Erasmus and Christian Humanism
376(1)
Martin Luther
377(3)
Ulrich Zwingli and Zurich
380(1)
John Calvin and the New Jerusalem
381(1)
SCIENCE AND THE INTELLECT
382(2)
The Scientific Revival
382(2)
TECHNOLOGY: NAVAL ARTILLERY
383(1)
Michel de Montaigne
384(1)
THE VISUAL ARTS AND ARCHITECTURE
384(10)
Germany
384(5)
Albrecht Durer
385(2)
Matthias Grunewald
387(2)
Albrecht Altdorfer
389(1)
The Netherlands
389(3)
Hieronymus Bosch
389(1)
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
390(2)
France
392(2)
OUR DYNAMIC WORLD: MING DYNASTY PORCELAIN
393(1)
MUSIC
394(2)
Germany
394(1)
France
395(1)
SYNTHESIS: THE GREAT AGE OF THE TUDORS
396(8)
Visual Art and Architecture
397(1)
Literature and Drama
397(2)
PROFILE: CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
399(1)
MASTERWORK: MARLOWE--DOCTOR FAUSTUS
400(2)
Music
402(2)
13 The Baroque Age
404(40)
SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATIC RATIONALISM
406(3)
Francis Bacon
406(1)
Galileo Galilei
407(1)
Johannes Kepler
407(1)
Rene Descartes
407(1)
Isaac Newton
408(1)
TECHNOLOGY: STANDARDIZED MEASUREMENT
409(1)
SOCIAL THEORY
409(1)
Thomas Hobbes
410(1)
John Locke
410(1)
THE COUNTER-REFORMATION
410(4)
The Council of Trent
410(3)
The Wars of Religion
413(1)
ABSOLUTISM AND THE RISE OF THE BOURGEOISIE
414(1)
THE VISUAL ARTS AND ARCHITECTURE
414(18)
Baroque Style
414(2)
Counter-Reformation Baroque
416(4)
Caravaggio
416(1)
El Greco
417(1)
Sculpture
418(1)
Architecture
419(1)
Aristocratic Baroque
420(8)
Rubens
420(1)
Poussin
421(1)
Sculpture
422(1)
Architecture
422(4)
OUR DYNAMIC WORLD: MUSLIM VERSUS HINDU ARCHITECTURE
426(2)
Bourgeois Baroque
428(4)
Rembrandt
428(1)
MASTERWORK: REMBRANDT--THE NIGHT WATCH
429(1)
Van Ruisdael
430(2)
LITERATURE
432(1)
Poetry and Satire
432(1)
The Rise of the Novel
432(1)
MUSIC
433(4)
The Counter-Reformation
433(1)
Baroque Style
433(1)
Secular Music
433(4)
Opera
433(1)
Cantala
434(1)
PROFILE: JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
435(1)
MASTERWORK: BACH--FUGUE IN A MINOR
436(1)
Instrumental Music
436(1)
FRENCH NEOCLASSICAL THEATRE
437(2)
SYNTHESIS: ENGLISH BAROQUE--SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY LONDON
439(5)
MASTERWORK: WREN--ST PAUL'S CATHEDRAL
440(1)
English Baroque Architecture
441(1)
PROFILE: SIR CHRISTOPHER WREN
442(1)
English Baroque Oratorio: George Frederick Handel
442(1)
English Baroque Theatre
443(1)
14 The Enlightenment
444(34)
THE ENLIGHTENMENT
446(8)
Technology
447(2)
TECHNOLOGY: JAMES WATT AND THE STEAM ENGINE
448(1)
Philosophy
449(1)
The Philosophes
449(2)
PROFILE: VOLTAIRE
450(1)
Economics and Politics
451(2)
Aesthetics and Classicism
453(1)
THE VISUAL ARTS AND ARCHITECTURE
454(10)
Rococo Style
454(4)
Humanitarianism and Hogarth
458(1)
Landscape and Portraiture
458(1)
Genre
459(1)
Neoclassicism
460(4)
MASTERWORK: DAVID--THE OATH OF THE HORATII
462(2)
LITERATURE
464(2)
Goldsmith
464(1)
Johnson
464(1)
The Preromantics
465(1)
MUSIC
466(4)
Pre-classical
466(1)
Expressive Style
466(1)
Classical Style
466(4)
Haydn
467(1)
Mozart
468(1)
Beethoven
469(1)
THEATRE
470(4)
Britain
470(1)
America
470(2)
OUR DYNAMIC WORLD: JAPANESE KABUKI THEATRE
471(1)
France
472(1)
Germany
472(2)
SYNTHESIS: THE ENLIGHTENED DESPOT--FREDERICK THE GREAT
474(4)
15 The Romantic Age
478(34)
THE AGE OF INDUSTRY
480(7)
Technology
480(2)
TECHNOLOGY: EXACT TOLERANCE
482(1)
Social Changes
482(2)
Philosophy
484(1)
Idealism
484(1)
Hegel's Aesthetic Theory
484(1)
Positivism and Materialism
485(1)
Internationalism
485(1)
Patronage
486(1)
THE VISUAL ARTS AND ARCHITECTURE
487(11)
Classicism
487(2)
The United States
487(2)
Romanticism
489(9)
MASTERWORK: GERICAULT--THE RAFT OF THE "MEDUSA"
492(4)
PROFILE: ROSA BONHEUR
496(2)
LITERATURE
498(2)
Wordsworth
499(1)
Jane Austen
499(1)
Other Nineteenth-century Romantics
499(1)
MUSIC
500(5)
Lieder
500(1)
Piano Works
501(1)
Program Music
501(1)
Symphonies
502(1)
Nationalism
503(1)
Choral Music
503(1)
Opera
503(2)
PROFILE: JOHANNES BRAHMS
503(2)
THEATRE
505(3)
Romanticism
505(2)
Melodrama
507(1)
SYNTHESIS: THE VICTORIANS--THE NINETEENTH CENTURY IN BRITAIN
508(4)
16 The Beginnings of Modernism
512(40)
THE WORLD IN TURMOIL
514(5)
European Migration
514(1)
Business and Industry
514(1)
Workers and Socialism
515(2)
The German Reich
517(1)
Scientific Explosion
518(1)
Physics
518(1)
TECHNOLOGY: COCA-COLA
518(1)
Biology
519(1)
PHILOSOPHY AND PSYCHOLOGY
519(2)
Friedrich Nietzsche
519(1)
Sigmund Freud
519(2)
Carl Jung
521(1)
THE VISUAL ARTS AND ARCHITECTURE
521(17)
Realism
521(4)
MASTERWORK: RENOIR--LE MOULIN DE LA GALETTE
524(1)
Impressionism
525(3)
Post-impressionism
528(3)
Experimentation and Art Nouveau
531(3)
PROFILE: LOUIS SULLIVAN
532(2)
Cubism
534(2)
MASTERWORK: PICASSO--LES DEMOISELLES D'AVIGNON
535(1)
Mechanism and Futurism
536(1)
Expressionism
536(1)
Fauvism
537(1)
LITERATURE
538(2)
Realism
538(2)
OUR DYNAMIC WORLD: NATIVE AMERICAN WOMEN IN LITERATURE
539(1)
Symbolism
540(1)
MUSIC
540(4)
Impressionism
540(1)
Naturalism in Opera
541(1)
Nontraditional Transitions
542(2)
Stravinsky
543(1)
PROFILE: IGOR STRAVINSKY
543(1)
Schoenberg
544(1)
Jazz
544(1)
THEATRE
544(1)
Realism and Naturalism
544(1)
Symbolism
545(1)
FILM: ART AND MECHANIZATION
545(3)
SYNTHESIS: AMERICA'S GILDED AGE
548(4)
The Breakers
548(2)
Whitehall
550(1)
Biltmore House
551(1)
17 Modernism
552(36)
THE MODERN WORLD IN CONFLICT
554(6)
The Economy Before World War I
554(1)
Toward World War I
554(2)
The Great War
556(2)
Revolution and Civil War in Russia
558(1)
The Aftermath
559(1)
BETWEEN THE WARS
560(2)
The Great Depression
560(1)
Hitler's Conquests
561(1)
WORLD WAR II
562(2)
Europe and Africa
562(1)
The Pacific
563(1)
SCIENCE AND WAR
564(1)
TECHNOLOGY: COMPUTERS
564(1)
PHILOSOPHY
565(1)
Pragmatism
565(1)
Existentialism
565(1)
LITERATURE
566(3)
The Novel
566(1)
PROFILE: LANGSTON HUGHES
567(1)
Poetry
567(2)
OUR DYNAMIC WORLD: NATIVE AMERICAN FICTION
568(1)
THE VISUAL ARTS AND ARCHITECTURE
569(12)
Abstraction
569(1)
Dada
570(1)
Surrealism
571(1)
American Painting
571(4)
PROFILE: GEORGIA O'KEEFFE
573(1)
The Harlem Renaissance
574(1)
Central American Painting
575(1)
African and Primitive Influences
575(5)
MASTERWORK: MOORE--RECUMBENT FIGURE
577(1)
Architectural Modernism
578(3)
MASTERWORK: WRIGHT--KAUFMANN HOUSE
579(2)
MUSIC
581(1)
Modern Traditionalism
581(1)
Departures
581(1)
Hindemith
581(1)
Bartok
581(1)
Berg
582(1)
Ives and Copland
582(1)
THEATRE
582(2)
Expressionism
582(1)
Epic Theatre
583(1)
Absurdism
583(1)
FILM
584(2)
European Film
584(1)
The Glorius Twenties
584(1)
The Thirties
585(1)
SYNTHESIS: THE BAUHAUS--INTEGRATION OF THE ARTS
586(2)
18 An Age of Pluralism
588(43)
A PLURALISTIC WORLD ORDER
590(4)
Decolonization
591(1)
The Cold War
592(1)
A Unified Europe
592(1)
TECHNOLOGY: ROBOTS
593(1)
Science and Liberty
593(1)
Toward Another Millennium
594(1)
THE VISUAL ARTS AND ARCHITECTURE
594(23)
Abstract Expressionism
594(3)
Pop Art
597(2)
Op Art
599(1)
Hard Edge
599(1)
Photorealism and Conceptualism
600(1)
Neo-expressionism
600(2)
Primary Structures
602(1)
Abstraction
603(2)
Found Sculpture and Junk Culture
605(1)
Minimalism
605(1)
Light Art
605(2)
Ephemeral and Environmental Art
607(1)
PROFILE: ROBERT SMITHSON
608(1)
Installations
608(1)
Postmodernism
608(2)
Neo-abstraction
610(1)
Video Art
610(1)
Architectural Modernism
611(3)
Architectural Postmodernism
614(3)
PLURALISM IN LITERATURE
617(1)
MUSIC
618(5)
Serialism
618(1)
Aleatory Music
619(1)
Improvisation
619(1)
Electronic Music
619(1)
Pluralism
619(2)
Penderecki
620(1)
PROFILE: KRZYSZTOF PENDERECKI
621(1)
Pop Music
621(2)
THEATRE
623(1)
Realism
623(1)
Absurdism
623(1)
Pluralism
623(1)
Spectacularism
624(1)
FILM
624(3)
Neo-realism
624(1)
The Demise of the Studio
625(1)
Pluralism
626(1)
SYNTHESIS: NATIVE AMERICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN ARTS
627(4)
Native American Poetry
627(1)
Native American Ceramics and Painting
627(1)
Native American Music
628(1)
African-American Popular Music--Jazz
628(1)
African-American Theatre
628(2)
African-American Writers
630(1)
GLOSSARY631(5)
NOTES636(1)
FURTHER READING637(4)
INDEX641

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