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Adventures in the Human Spirit

by Philip E. Bishop
ISBN13:

9780130106124

ISBN10:
0130106127
Format:
Paperback
Pub. Date:
10/1/1993
Publisher(s):
Prentice Hall Professional Technical Reference
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Summary

Exceptionally reader-friendly, extensively illustrated, and engagingly thought-provoking, this one-volume historical survey of the humanities is accessible -- and inviting -- to readers with little background in the arts and humanities.

Table of Contents

The Humanities: An Introduction to the Adventure
Finding a Voice
The Arts
An Invitation to the Adventure
The Ancient World
The First Humans
Mesopotamia
Ancient Egypt
Early Asian Civilizations
Ancient Greece: The Classical Spirit
Early Greece
Classical Greece
Greek Theater and Music
Classical Greek Philosophy
The Hellenistic Age
Ancient Rome: The Spirit of Empire
The Drama of Roman History
The Art of an Empire
Roman Art and Daily Life
The Romans as Poets and Thinkers
The Spirit of Monotheism
The Judaic Tradition
The Rise of Christianity
Christian Philosophy
The Christian Empires: Rome and Byzantium
The Rise of Islam
The Early Middle Ages: The Feudal Spirit
The Age of Charlemagne
Feudal Europe
Monasticism
The Romanesque Style
Early Medieval Music and Drama
The Medieval Philosopher
The Late Middle Ages: The Gothic Awakening
The Gothic Awakening
The Gothic Styles
Music and Theater in the Gothic Age
The New Learning
Court and City in the Late Middle Ages
Prelude to the Renaissance
The Renaissance Spirit in Italy
The Renaissance in Italy
The Arts in Renaissance Florence
Early Renaissance Genius
The High Renaissance in Rome
Reformation and Late Renaissance
The Reformation
The Rise of Northern Europe
Art and Humanism in Northern Europe
The Elizabethan Age
The Late Renaissance in Italy
The Spirit of Baroque
The Baroque in Spain
The Baroque in Italy
The Baroque in France
The Protestant Baroque
The New Science
The English Compromise
The Spirit of Enlightenment
The Enlightenment
The Rococo Style
The Middle-Class Response
The Neoclassical Style
The Age of Satire
Revolution and Romanticism
Revolutions and Rights
The Romantic Hero
Elements of Romanticism
Romantic Demons
The Industrial Age: The Spirit of Materialism
Materialism and Progress
Realism and the Modern World
Music and Modernity
Last Romantics and Early Moderns
The Dark Side of Progress
The Spirit of Modernism
A Turbulent Century
Modernism in Art
The Modern Mind
Modernist Music and Architecture
Art and Politics
In the American Grain
The Contemporary Spirit
Horror and Absurdity in the New Age
Art in the Post-War Era
The Trials of Modern Architecture
Post-1945 Music
Post-modern Styles
The Global Culture
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
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