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The Creative Impulse: An Introduction to the Arts

by Dennis Sporre

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Table of Contents

PICTURE CREDITS

4

(5)

PREFACE

9

(1)

Introduction: What Are the Arts and How Do We Respond to and Evaluate Them?

10

(18)

THE HUMANITIES AND THE ARTS

12

(1)

WHAT IS ART?

13

(2)

Nonrestrictiveness

13

(1)

Human Enterprise

14

(1)

Medium of Expression

14

(1)

Communication

14

(1)

THE FUNCTIONS OF ART

15

(1)

Entertainment

15

(1)

Political and Social Commentary

15

(1)

Therapy

15

(1)

Artifact

16

(1)

LOOKING, LISTENING, AND RESPONDING

16

(8)

Two-dimensional Art

17

(2)

Media

17

(1)

Composition

17

(2)

Sculpture

19

(2)

Dimensionality

19

(1)

Texture

19

(2)

Architecture

21

(1)

Structure

21

(1)

Music

22

(1)

Genres

22

(1)

Melody and Structure

22

(1)

Theatre

22

(1)

Genres

22

(1)

Plot, Character, Thought, and Visual Elements

22

(1)

Literature

23

(1)

Genres

23

(1)

Point of View, Character, and Plot

23

(1)

Theme and Language

23

(1)

Film

23

(1)

EVALUATING WORKS OF ART

24

(4)

Types of Criticism

26

(1)

Formal Criticism

26

(1)

Contextual Criticism

26

(1)

Making Judgements

27

(1)

Craftsmanship

27

(1)

Communication

27

(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)

GLOSSARY

631

(5)

NOTES

636

(1)

FURTHER READING

637

(4)

INDEX

641

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