Beginner's Guide to the Humanities, A

by Bishop, Philip E.

Edition:

2nd

ISBN13:

9780132213844

ISBN10:

0132213842

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Paperback

Pub. Date:

1/1/2007

Publisher(s):

Prentice Hall

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This practical beginner's guide to appreciating and experiencing culture provides a handy introduction to the world of art that teaches students how to observe, enjoy, and analyze the arts. Professor Philip Bishop wrote this book because there was no concise handbook on the market covering the arts as a whole. His text provides a succinct and affordable guide to the arts and humanities geared to students who are starting from scratch in their study of the arts. Self-contained chapters provide an essential companion guide to understanding a specific discipline-including painting, sculpture, music, and theater-with a clear and insightful explanation of the discipliners"s process of creation.

Preface

Painting

(15)

How to Talk in Pictures

(1)

The World of Painting

(1)

A Real Encounter: The Sense of Abstraction

(2)

Extreme Art: The Symbolism of Dung

(1)

The Tool Kit: Painting

(3)

Imagery and Subject

(1)

Medium and Materials

(1)

Form and Composition

(1)

Color and Light

(1)

Pictorial Miscellany

(1)

The Experience: How to Look at a Picture

(1)

Style Guide: Types and Traditions

(2)

A Companion To Painting

(5)

Sculpture

(14)

Giving Shape to the World

(2)

A Real Encounter: A Shrine of Sorrow

(2)

Extreme Art: Bust in Blood

(1)

The Tool Kit: Sculpture

(2)

The Sculptural Process

(1)

Sculptural Types

(1)

Sculptural Materials

(1)

Form

(1)

Sculptural Subjects

(1)

Sculptural Miscellany

(1)

The Experience: Sizing Up a Sculpture

(1)

Style Guide: Sculptors---Greats Since the Greeks

(2)

A Companion To Sculpture

(5)

Architecture

(19)

Why Buildings Stand

(1)

What Buildings Mean

(2)

A Real Encounter: The Magic of Fallingwater

(1)

The Tool Kit: Architecture

(7)

Materials

(1)

Construction

(1)

The Arch

(1)

Sacred Building

(1)

The Temple

(1)

The Church

(1)

The Mosque

(1)

Architectural Decoration

(2)

Architectural Miscellany

(1)

The Experience: How to Be in a Building

(1)

Style Guide: Architecture in American Cities, c. 2000

(2)

A Companion To Architecture

(5)

Music

(16)

Music Class

(1)

The Essentials of Music

(2)

A Real Encounter: Four Seasons in a Gothic Light

(1)

The Tool Kit: Music, Technically Speaking

(7)

Musical Scales

(1)

Harmony

(1)

The Instruments

(1)

Dynamics

(1)

Vocal Forms

(2)

Instrumental Forms

(1)

Theatrical Forms

(1)

Music A to Z

(3)

The Experience: How To Listen---Really Listen

(1)

Style Guide: Musical Styles You're Most Likely to Hear

(1)

A Companion To Music

(4)

Theater

(17)

The Elements of Dram

(2)

Who Makes the Play?

(1)

A Real Encounter: An Angel over America

(2)

The Tool Kit: Theater

(3)

The Stage

(1)

The Set

(1)

Theater by Degree

(1)

A Theater Glossary

(1)

The Experience: Playing Along

(2)

Style Guide: A User's Guide to the Theater

(2)

Genres

(1)

Historical Types and Traditions

(1)

A Companion To Theater

(6)

Opera and Musical Theater

(15)

Opera---The Greatest Art?

(3)

The Voice Is the Thing

(1)

Operatic Voices

(1)

A Real Encounter: Opera's Unrepentant Sinner

(2)

Open for Debate: Operatic Remakes . . . or Rip-offs?

(1)

The Tool Kit: Opera

(2)

Opera by Degree

(1)

Opera Miscellany

(2)

The Experience: Stories in Song

(1)

Style Guide: Operatic Operators

(3)

A Companion To Opera And Musical Theater

(4)

Dance

(15)

The Poetry of Movement

(1)

Elements of Dance

(2)

A Real Encounter: The Continuity of Dance

100

(1)

The Tool Kit: Dance

101

(3)

Types of Dance

101

(1)

The Ballet Company

101

(1)

Dance Technique

102

(2)

Dance Miscellany

104

(1)

The Experience: Move to the Music

104

(1)

Style Guide: Great Names in Dance

105

(3)

Great Ballets

105

(1)

Choreographer and Company

106

(1)

Dancers of the Modern

107

(1)

A Companion To Ballet And Dance

108

(4)

The Printed Image: Prints, Photos, Digital Art

112

(18)

The Arts of Mechanical Reproducibility

112

(2)

Open for Debate: Falsifiable Photographs

114

(1)

The Tool Kit: Printmaking

114

(3)

Engraving

114

(2)

Relief

116

(1)

Other Processs

116

(1)

Printmaking Miscellany

117

(1)

The Tool Kit: Photography

117

(5)

The Film

117

(1)

The Camera

118

(1)

The Darkroom

119

(1)

Color Photography

120

(1)

Photographic Genres

121

(1)

Photographic Miscellany

121

(1)

The Tool Kit: Digital Images

122

(1)

The Experience: Pictures, Pictures Everywhere

122

(2)

Style Guide: Masters of the Printed Image

124

(1)

A Companion To The Printed Image

125

(5)

Literature

130

(11)

Literature as Species

130

(1)

A Real Encounter: Poetry as a Hunger

131

(1)

The Tool Kit: Poetry

132

(2)

Sound

133

(1)

Form

133

(1)

Meaning

134

(1)

Prose Fiction

134

(1)

Genre

134

(1)

Meaning

135

(1)

The Experience: The Power of Reading

135

(1)

Style Guide: Varieties of the Novel

136

(2)

A Companion To Literature

138

(3)

Movies

141

(15)

The Novel of the Twentieth Century

141

(1)

Who Makes a Movie?

142

(1)

A Real Encounter: A Shot Heard `Round the Film World

143

(1)

The Tool Kit: The Movies

144

(5)

Camera Work

144

(2)

The Story

146

(1)

Editing

146

(1)

Sound and Effects

147

(1)

Animation

148

(1)

Film Miscellany

148

(1)

The Experience: Watching While Thinking

149

(1)

Style Guide: Movie Genres

150

(2)

A Companion To The Movies

152

(4)

Encountering the Arts

156

(6)

Touring a City

156

(2)

Visiting a Museum

158

(2)

Attending a Performance

160

(2)

Index

162

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