The Creative Impulse: An Introduction to the Arts

by Sporre, Dennis

• ISBN13: 9780130400352
• ISBN10: 0130400351
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-07-01
• Publisher: Prentice Hall

Summary

For any introductory course in Humanities or Interdisciplinary Arts Appreciation. This text chronologically introduces the arts of Western tradition: architecture, literature, visual arts, music, theatre, dance, film, in a contextual overview of the philosophy, religion, aesthetic theory, economics, and politics surrounding them. Additional material encompassing modern artistic movements and achievementsyoung contemporary realist painters, ethnic and social alternative theatre, and performance artbroadens the scope of coverage. Sporre provides students of the humanities with a basic familiarity and understanding of major styles, historical significance, and an extended relationship with art encountered beyond the classroom. Integrates feature boxes on non-western art and culture appropriate to the time period being studied in each chapter.

Table of Contents

Introduction

What are the Arts and How Do We Evaluate and Describe Them?

The Humanities and the Arts

What is Art?

The Functions of Art

Evaluating Works of Art

Getting Started

Two-Dimensional Art

Sculpture

Architecture

Music

Theatre

Literature

Film

Dance

Features

The Ancient World

The Human Journey. Our Earliest Art

Mesopotamia

Ancient Egypt

Archaic Greece and the Aegean

The Minoans

The Mycenaeans

Between Myth and History

The Archaic Greek World

Greek Classicism and Hellenism

The Classical World

The Hellenistic Age

The Roman Period

The Roman Republic

The Roman Empire

Judaism and Early Christianity

The People of Israel

Christianity

Christianity and the Late Roman Empire

Late Roman and Early Christian Art

Byzantium and the Rise of Islam

Byzantium

The Rise of Islam

The Early Middle Ages: The Monastic and Feudal Romanesque Period

The Middle Ages

The Medieval Church

Charlemagne's Empire

Feudalism

The Visual Arts

Music

Literature

Theatre

Dance

The High Middle Ages: The Gothic Age

The Social Order of the High Middle Ages

The Christian Church

Philosophy and Theology

Literature

Gothic Style

Music

Theatre

The Late Middle Ages

The End of the Middle Ages

Literature

Art and Architecture

Music

Theatre

Dance

The Early Renaissance

The Renaissance

The Renaissance Viewpoint

The Beginnings of Renaissance Architecture

Sculpture

Painting

Music

Theatre

Dance

The High Renaissance and Mannerism

The High Renaissance

Southern Europe in the Sixteenth Century

The Visual Arts

Architecture

The Performing Arts

Literature

Renaissance and Reformation in Northern Europe

The Reformation

Science and the Intellect

The Visual Arts and Architecture

Music

Dance

The Baroque Age

Scientific Revolution and Systematic Rationalism

Philosophy

The Counter-Reformation

Absolutism

The Visual Arts and Architecture

Literature

Music

French Neoclassic Theatre

Dance

The Enlightenment

The Enlightenment

The Visual Arts and Architecture

Literature

Music

Theatre

Dance

The Romantic Age

The Age of Industry

Romanticism in the Visual Arts and Architecture

Romanticism in Literature

Romanticism in Music

Romanticism in Theatre

Romanticism in Dance

The Beginnings of Modernism

The World in Turmoil

Philosophy and Psychology

The Visual Arts and Architecture

Literature

Music

Theatre

Film: Art and Mechanization

Dance

Modernism

The Modern World in Conflict

Between the Wars

World War II. Science and War

Philosophy

Literature

The Visual Arts and Architecture

Music

Theatre

Modern Dance

Photography

Film

Postmodernism: The Pluralistic Age

A Pluralistic World Order

The Visual Arts and Architecture

Pluralism in Literature

Music

Theatre

Film

Dance Glossary

Notes

Further Reading

Index

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