Landmarks in Humanities with Core Concepts DVD-ROM

by Fiero, Gloria K.

• ISBN13: 9780073207261
• ISBN10: 0073207268
• Edition: DVD
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-05-05
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Summary

LANDMARKS in Humanitiesis a single-volume survey of global culture designed for students of humanities, cultural history, and history of the arts. In chronological sequence,LANDMARKShighlights the most notable monuments of the human imagination--those works of art and architecture, literature, philosophy, and music that have been foremost in shaping the world's cultures.The text's fifteen chapters are unified by core concepts related to each period, such as Classicism, Christendom, or Modernism. Chapter features include "Ideas and Issues" boxes containing primary-source excerpts; "Parallels" sidebars relating images and ideas; "Beyond the West" sections highlighting influential landmarks of Asian, African, and Oceanic cultures; and chapter-ending timelines keying landmarks in humanities to major historical events. Throughout the text, high quality maps place key events and works in a clear geographical context. In addition, an outstanding supplements package accompanies the text, featuring resources for both students and instructors. Each copy of LANDMARKS will include a free student DVD-ROM,Core Concepts in Humanities, which contains interactive activities for each chapter in the text plus numerous other study resources for all humanities disciplines.

Table of Contents

Preface	xii
Origins: The First Civilizations	1	(28)
Prehistory	2	(4)
Paleolithic Culture	2	(1)
Ideas and Issues Keeping Track of Time	3	(1)
Neolithic Culture	3	(1)
Parallels Mother Earth	3	(2)
Parallels Stone Circles	5	(1)
The Birth of Civilization	6	(2)
From Counting to Writing	6	(1)
Parallels The Invention of Writing	7	(1)
Metallurgy: The Bronze Age	7	(1)
Mesopotamia: ``Land Between the Rivers''	8	(5)
Myths, Gods, and Goddesses	8	(1)
Ideas and Issues Male Versus Female Power	9	(1)
Mesopotamia's Ziggurats	9	(1)
Gilgamesh: The First Epic	10	(1)
Parallels Temple Towers	10	(1)
Ideas and Issues The Quest for Life Everlasting	11	(1)
Babylon: Hammurabi's Law Code	11	(1)
Iron Technology	12	(1)
Ideas and Issues From Hammurabi's Code	12	(1)
Landmarks of the Iron Age	13	(1)
Ancient Egypt	13	(8)
The Cult of the Dead	14	(1)
Egyptian Art	15	(1)
Parallels Pyramids Ancient and Modern	16	(1)
New Kingdom Temples	17	(1)
Egyptian Women	18	(2)
Akhenaten's Reform	20	(1)
Literature and Music	20	(1)
Beyond the West: Ancient India	21	(2)
Indus Valley Civilization	21	(1)
The Vedic Era	21	(1)
Hindu Pantheism	22	(1)
Ideas and Issues Hindu Pantheism and Reincarnation	22	(1)
Beyond the West: Ancient China	23	(3)
The Shang Dynasty	23	(1)
The Aristocracy of Merit	24	(1)
The Mandate of Heaven	24	(1)
Spirits, Gods, and the Natural Order	24	(1)
Daoism: The Philosophy of the Way	25	(1)
Ideas and Issues Daoism: The Way	25	(1)
Afterword	26	(1)
Key Topics	26	(1)
The First Civilizations Timeline	27	(2)
Classicism: The Greek Legacy	29	(36)
Ancient Greek Civilization	30	(6)
Aegean Civilizations	30	(1)
Mycenaean Civilizations	31	(2)
The Heroic Age	33	(1)
The Greek Gods	34	(1)
Parallels In the Beginning	34	(1)
Greek City-States and the Persian Wars	35	(1)
Athens and the Golden Age	36	(5)
The Athens of Pericles	36	(1)
The Olympic Games	37	(1)
Ideas and Issues Pericles: The Greatness of Athens	37	(1)
Greek Drama	37	(3)
Greek Poetry	40	(1)
Ideas and Issues Sappho: ``He is More Than a Hero''	40	(1)
Greek Philosophy	41	(2)
Naturalist Philosophy: The Pre-Socratics	41	(1)
The Sophists	42	(1)
Socrates and the Quest for Virtue	42	(1)
Beyond the West: Chinese Philosophy	43	(4)
Confucius	43	(1)
Ideas and Issues Confucius: Moral Advice	43	(1)
Plato and the Theory of Forms	44	(1)
Aristotle and the Life of Reason	45	(1)
Ideas and Issues The Syllogism	46	(1)
Aristotle and the State	46	(1)
Ideas and Issues Man is a Political Animal	47	(1)
Ideas and Issues Aristotle's Defense of Slavery	47	(1)
The Classical Style	47	(11)
Key Features	47	(1)
Greek Painting	47	(1)
Greek Sculpture: The Archaic Period	48	(1)
Greek Sculpture: The Classical Period	49	(1)
Parallels The Sculptured Male Form	50	(2)
Greek Architecture: The Parthenon	52	(1)
Parallels Greek Classicism and Neoclassicism	53	(2)
The Sculpture of the Parthenon	55	(2)
Greek Music and Dance	57	(1)
The Hellenistic Age	58	(4)
Hellenistic Schools of Thought	59	(1)
Hellenistic Art	60	(2)
Afterword	62	(1)
Key Topics	62	(1)
Ancient Greece Timeline	63	(2)
Empire: The Power and Glory of Rome	65	(26)
The Roman Rise to Empire	66	(4)
Rome's Early History	66	(1)
The Roman Republic	66	(1)
The Collapse of the Republic	67	(1)
The Roman Empire: Pax Romana	68	(1)
Roman Law	69	(1)
Roman Literature	70	(3)
Latin Prose Literature	70	(1)
Philosophic Thought	70	(1)
Ideas and Issues Stoic Detachment and Acceptance	70	(1)
Epic Poetry	71	(1)
Lyric Poetry and Satire	71	(1)
Ideas and Issues Virgil: Rome's Duty to Rule	71	(1)
Ideas and Issues Catullus: The Poetry of Seduction	71	(1)
Ideas and Issues Horace: ``Carpe Diem'' (``Seize the Day'')	72	(1)
Ideas and Issues Juvenal: ``Against Women''	72	(1)
Roman Drama	73	(1)
Art and Empire	73	(11)
Roman Architecture	73	(3)
Parallels Roman Classicism and Neoclassicism	76	(3)
Roman Sculpture	79	(3)
Roman Painting and Mosaic	82	(1)
Roman Music	83	(1)
Beyond the West: China's Rise to Empire	84	(4)
The Qin Dynasty	84	(2)
The Han Dynasty	86	(1)
Han Literature	86	(1)
Visual Arts and Music	87	(1)
Afterword	88	(1)
Key Topics	88	(1)
Ancient Rome Timeline	89	(2)
Revelation: The Flowering of World Religions	91	(32)
Judaism	92	(3)
The Hebrews	92	(1)
Parallels Codes of Conduct	92	(1)
The Hebrew State	93	(1)
The Hebrew Bible	93	(2)
The Arts of the Hebrews	95	(1)
Christianity	95	(4)
The Greco-Roman Background	95	(1)
Mystery Cults	95	(1)
Judea Before Jesus	96	(1)
The Coming of Jesus	96	(1)
Paul: Co-Founder of Christianity	97	(1)
Ideas and Issues Jesus Sermon on the Mount	98	(1)
The Spread of Christianity	99	(12)
The Christian Identity	99	(1)
Christian Monasticism	100	(1)
Ideas and Issues The Christian Calendar	100	(1)
The Latin Church Fathers	100	(2)
Ideas and Issues Neoplatonism	102	(1)
Symbolism and Early Christian Art	102	(1)
Early Christian Architecture	103	(2)
Byzantine Art and Architecture	105	(4)
The Byzantine Icon	109	(1)
Early Christian Music	110	(1)
Islam	111	(3)
The Coming of Muhammad	111	(1)
The Quran	111	(2)
Ideas and Issues The Quran: Judgment	113	(1)
The Spread of Islam	114	(4)
Early Islamic Art and Architecture	115	(1)
Early Islamic Music	116	(2)
Beyond the West: Buddhism	118	(2)
Early Buddhist Architecture	119	(1)
Parallels Jesus and the Buddha: Humility	119	(1)
Afterword	120	(1)
Key Topics	120	(1)
World Religions Timeline	121	(2)
Synthesis: The Rise of the West	123	(24)
The Germanic Tribes	124	(3)
Germanic Culture	124	(1)
Germanic Literature	125	(1)
Germanic Art	125	(1)
Parallels Interlace: Secular and Sacred	126	(1)
The Age of Charlemagne	127	(4)
The Carolingian Renaissance	127	(1)
Parallels The Monastic Complex East and West	128	(1)
The Monastic Complex	129	(1)
The Medieval Book	129	(1)
Parallels Holy Books and Manuscripts	130	(1)
Beyond the West: Japan	131	(1)
The Birth of the Novel	131	(1)
Ideas and Issues Handwriting as an Art	131	(1)
Feudal Society	132	(6)
The Feudal Contract	132	(1)
Parallels Feudalism East and West	132	(1)
The Lives of Medieval Serfs	133	(1)
The Norman Conquest	133	(1)
The Norman Castle	134	(2)
The Bayeux Tapestry	136	(1)
The Crusades	136	(2)
Feudal-Age Literature	138	(2)
The Song of Roland	138	(1)
Ideas and Issues The Glories of War	138	(1)
The Poetry of the Troubadours	138	(1)
Ideas and Issues The Countess of Dia: Lost Love	139	(1)
The Medieval Romance and the Code of Courtly Love	139	(1)
Early Medieval Music	140	(1)
Liturgical Drama	140	(1)
Beyond the West: China	141	(3)
Tang and Song	141	(1)
Chinese Technology	141	(1)
Chinese Porcelain	142	(1)
Chinese Landscape Painting	142	(2)
Afterword	144	(1)
Key Topics	144	(1)
Early Middle Ages Timeline	145	(2)
Christendom: Europe in the Age of Faith	147	(32)
The Medieval Church	148	(3)
Ideas and Issues The Supremacy of the Church	148	(1)
Sin and Salvation	148	(1)
The Literature of Mysticism	149	(1)
Saint Francis: Medieval Humanist	149	(1)
Parallels Mysticism: Christian and Muslim	150	(1)
Medieval Towns	151	(7)
Medieval Drama	151	(2)
Dante's Divine Comedy	153	(1)
Ideas and Issues Dante: The Ninth Circle of Hell	154	(1)
The Medieval University	155	(1)
Medieval Scholasticism	156	(1)
Ideas and Issues Aquinas: Whether Woman Should Have Been Made	157	(1)
The Pilgrimage Church	158	(4)
Romanesque Architecture	159	(3)
Romanesque Sculpture	162	(1)
The Gothic Cathedral	162	(10)
Chartres Cathedral: Gothic Landmark	165	(5)
Medieval Painting: The Gothic Altarpiece	170	(1)
Parallels Temple-Shrines: Christian and Hindu	171	(1)
Medieval Music	172	(2)
Medieval Musical Notation	172	(1)
Medieval Polyphony	172	(1)
The ``Dies Irae''	172	(1)
The Motet	173	(1)
Instrumental Music	173	(1)
Beyond the West: India and China	174	(2)
Religious Icons	174	(2)
Afterword	176	(1)
Key Topics	176	(1)
High Middle Ages Timeline	177	(2)
Rebirth: The Age of the Renaissance	179	(40)
Transition: Medieval to Renaissance	180	(3)
The Black Death	180	(1)
The Rise of Constitutional Monarchy	181	(1)
The Hundred Years' War	181	(1)
The Decline of the Church	182	(1)
The Arts in Transition	183	(4)
Boccaccio	183	(1)
Christine de Pisan	183	(1)
Chaucer	183	(1)
Parallels The New Realism in Literature and Art	184	(2)
Giotto's New Realism	186	(1)
The Ars Nova in Music	187	(1)
The Italian Renaissance	187	(2)
Renaissance Humanism	189	(5)
Petrarch: ``Father of Humanism''	190	(1)
Ideas and Issues Petrarch: The Flesh Versus the Spirit	190	(1)
Ficino: The Platonic Academy	190	(1)
Pico della Mirandola: The Dignity of Man	190	(1)
Ideas and Issues Pico: Free Will and Human Perfectibility	191	(1)
Castiglione: The Well-Rounded Person	191	(1)
Ideas and Issues The Renaissance Gentleman/The Renaissance Lady	192	(1)
The Printing Press	192	(1)
Machiavelli and Power Politics	192	(2)
Ideas and Issues Whether It Is Better to Be Loved Than Feared	194	(1)
Early Renaissance Art	194	(9)
Early Renaissance Architecture	195	(1)
Early Renaissance Painting	196	(2)
Early Renaissance Sculpture	198	(5)
High Renaissance Art	203	(11)
High Renaissance Architecture	203	(1)
Leonardo da Vinci	203	(3)
Ideas and Issues Restoration or Ruin?	206	(2)
Raphael	208	(1)
Michelangelo	209	(3)
The High Renaissance in Venice	212	(2)
Renaissance Music	214	(1)
Josquin des Prez	214	(1)
The Madrigal	214	(1)
Instrumental Music	214	(1)
Renaissance Dance	215	(1)
Beyond the West: The Glories of the Ottoman Empire	215	(1)
Afterword	216	(1)
Key Topics	216	(1)
Renaissance Timeline	217	(2)
Reform: The Northern Renaissance and the Reformation	219	(26)
Renaissance and Reformation	220	(5)
Christian Humanism	220	(1)
Luther and the Protestant Reformation	220	(2)
Ideas and Issues Luther's Challenge to the Church	222	(1)
The Spread of Protestantism	222	(1)
Calvin and Calvinism	222	(1)
Ideas and Issues Calvin: Predestination	223	(1)
Anabaptism	223	(1)
The Anglican Church	223	(1)
Religious Persecution and Witch-Hunts	223	(2)
Sixteenth-Century Literature	225	(5)
Erasmus	225	(1)
Ideas and Issues Erasmus: Life as Folly	225	(1)
More	225	(1)
Cervantes	226	(1)
Ideas and Issues Cervantes: Tilting at Windmills	226	(1)
Montaigne	226	(1)
Shakespeare	227	(1)
Ideas and Issues Shakespeare: Poetry's Immortalizing Power	228	(1)
The Shakespearean Stage	229	(1)
Beyond the West: Japanese Theater	230	(2)
Shakespeare's Plays	231	(1)
Ideas and Issues Hamlet's Dilemma	231	(1)
Northern Art	232	(9)
Jan van Eyck	232	(1)
The Protestant Reformation and Printmaking	233	(1)
Durer	234	(1)
Cranach and Holbein	235	(1)
Grunewald	235	(1)
Parallels Humanism: East and West	236	(1)
Bosch	236	(1)
Parallels Devotional Images: Pathos and Remorse	237	(3)
Brueghel	240	(1)
Northern Music	241	(1)
Music and the Reformation	241	(1)
Elizabethan Music	241	(1)
Afterword	242	(1)
Key Topics	242	(1)
Northern Renaissance Timeline	243	(2)
Encounter: European Outreach and Expansion	245	(22)
Global Travel and Trade	246	(1)
European Expansion	247	(1)
Africa	247	(6)
Cultural Heritage	247	(1)
West African Kingdoms	248	(1)
Ideas and Issues The Voice of the Griot	249	(1)
African Literature	249	(1)
Parallels Text and Image: The Oba of Benin	250	(1)
Ideas and Issues African Myths: The Origin of Death	250	(1)
African Music and Dance	250	(1)
African Sculpture	251	(1)
The Europeans in Africa	252	(1)
Parallels Africa's Legacy	252	(1)
The Americas	253	(9)
Native American Cultures	253	(1)
The Arts of Native North America	253	(3)
Ideas and Issues Navajo Night Chant	256	(1)
Ideas and Issues Mohawk Myth: How Man Was Created	256	(1)
The Arts of Meso- and South America	256	(2)
Maya Civilization	258	(3)
Inka Civilization	261	(1)
Aztec Civilization	261	(1)
Cross-Cultural Encounter
The Spanish in the Americas	262	(1)
The Columbian Exchange	262	(1)
Ideas and Issues Cortes: Destroying Aztec ``Idols''	263	(1)
Afterword	264	(1)
Key Topics	264	(1)
Africa and the Americas Timeline	265	(2)
Baroque: Piety and Extravagance	267	(34)
The Catholic Reformation	268	(3)
Loyola and the Jesuit Order	268	(1)
Ideas and Issues Loyola: The Church Militant	268	(1)
Mannerist Painting	268	(2)
Music and the Catholic Reformation	270	(1)
The Italian Baroque	271	(5)
Italian Baroque Architecture	271	(1)
Italian Baroque Sculpture	271	(1)
Parallels Text and Image: Saint Teresa's Vision	272	(1)
Italian Baroque Painting	273	(1)
Parallels Text and Image: The Book of Judith	274	(2)
The Northern Baroque	276	(8)
The Rise of the English Commonwealth	276	(1)
The King James Bible	276	(1)
Donne	276	(1)
Ideas and Issues Donne: No Man Is an Island	277	(1)
Ideas and Issues Donne: ``Death Be Not Proud''	277	(1)
Milton	277	(1)
Ideas and Issues Milton: A Paradise Within	277	(1)
The London of Christopher Wren	278	(1)
Seventeenth-Century Holland	279	(1)
Vermeer	280	(1)
Rembrandt	281	(3)
The Aristocratic Baroque	284	(8)
Louis XIV and the Arts	284	(1)
Parallels Absolutism and the Arts: East and West	285	(1)
Theater Arts	286	(1)
Academic Art	287	(1)
The Aristocratic Baroque Portrait	288	(1)
Parallels Aristocratic Art: East and West	289	(1)
Velazquez and Rubens	290	(2)
Beyond the West: Aristocratic Landmarks	292	(1)
Japan	292	(1)
India	292	(1)
Baroque Music	293	(5)
Gabrieli	293	(1)
The Birth of Opera	293	(1)
Monteverdi	293	(1)
Music at the Court of Louis XIV	294	(1)
Handel and the English Oratorio	294	(1)
Bach and Religious Music	295	(1)
Instrumental Music	295	(3)
Afterword	298	(1)
Key Topics	298	(1)
Baroque Timeline	299	(2)
Enlightenment: Science and the New Learning	301	(32)
The Scientific Revolution	302	(3)
Galileo	302	(1)
Bacon and the Empirical Method	302	(1)
Ideas and Issues Bacon: Science and Religion	303	(1)
Ideas and Issues The Tools of Science	304	(1)
Descartes and the Birth of Modern Philosophy	304	(1)
Newton's Synthesis	304	(1)
The Enlightenment	305	(7)
Locke: Enlightenment Herald	305	(1)
Ideas and Issues Two Views of the Social Contract	306	(1)
Montesquieu and Jefferson	306	(1)
Ideas and Issues Jefferson: Unalienable Rights	307	(1)
The Philosophes	307	(1)
Ideas and Issues The Encyclopedic Cast of Mind	308	(1)
The Crusade for Progress	308	(1)
Ideas and Issues Condorcet: The Progress of Humankind	309	(1)
Enlightenment and the Rights of Women	309	(1)
Ideas and Issues Wollstonecraft: Make Women Free	309	(1)
Kant and Enlightenment Ethics	309	(1)
Rousseau: Enlightenment Rebel	310	(1)
Revolutions of the Late Eighteenth Century	310	(2)
Literature and the Enlightenment	312	(3)
Pope: Poet of the Age of Reason	312	(1)
Ideas and Issues Pope: Whatever Is, Is Right	312	(1)
Newspapers and Novels	312	(1)
Slave Narratives	313	(1)
Satire: Swift and Voltaire	313	(2)
The Visual Arts and the Enlightenment	315	(11)
Hogarth's Visual Satires	315	(1)
The Rococo Style	316	(2)
Rococo Painting	318	(2)
Parallels Love and Lovers	320	(1)
Rococo Sculpture	320	(1)
Genre Painting	321	(1)
Neoclassicism	322	(1)
Neoclassical Architecture	322	(1)
Parallels The Neoclassical Vogue	323	(1)
Neoclassical Sculpture	324	(1)
Neoclassical Painting	324	(2)
Music and the Enlightenment	326	(3)
Eighteenth-Century Classical Music	326	(1)
The Birth of the Symphony Orchestra	327	(1)
Haydn	327	(1)
Mozart	328	(1)
Beyond the West: Japan	329	(1)
The Way of Tea and Zen	329	(1)
Afterword	330	(1)
Key Topics	330	(1)
Enlightenment Timeline	331	(2)
Romanticism: Nature, Passion, and the Sublime	333	(30)
Heralds of Romanticism	334	(3)
Napoleon: Romantic Hero	334	(1)
Nineteenth-Century Philosophers	335	(1)
Darwin's Origin of Species	336	(1)
Romantic Literature	337	(4)
Wordsworth and the Poetry of Nature	337	(1)
Ideas and Issues Wordsworth: A Sense Sublime	338	(1)
Shelley and Keats	338	(1)
Ideas and Issues Shelley: ``Ozymandias''	338	(1)
Byron: Romantic Hero	339	(1)
Goethe's Faust	339	(1)
Ideas and Issues Goethe: The Faustian Hero	340	(1)
The Female Voice	340	(1)
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein	341	(1)
American Romanticism	341	(3)
Transcendentalism	341	(1)
Ideas and Issues Emerson: I Am Part of God	341	(1)
Ideas and Issues Thoreau: Nature as Teacher	342	(1)
Whitman's Romantic Individualism	342	(1)
Ideas and Issues Whitman: ``I Celebrate Myself''	342	(1)
Abolitionist Literature	343	(1)
Ideas and Issues Douglass: Slave Morality	343	(1)
Romanticism in the Visual Arts	344	(10)
The Romantic Landscape	344	(2)
Parallels Landscape: West and East	346	(1)
American Painting	347	(2)
The Popular Hero: Goya and Gericault	349	(2)
Parallels Lady Liberty	351	(1)
Revolutionary Heroism: Delacroix	352	(1)
Romantic Sculpture	352	(1)
Romantic Architecture	353	(1)
Romantic Music and Dance	354	(5)
The Symphony: Beethoven	354	(1)
The Art Song: Schubert	355	(1)
Program Music: Berlioz	355	(1)
Piano Music: Chopin	356	(1)
The Romantic Ballet	357	(1)
Grand Opera: Verdi	358	(1)
Music-Drama: Wagner	358	(1)
Beyond the West: Exploring Africa	359	(1)
Afterword	360	(1)
Key Topics	360	(1)
Romanticism Timeline	361	(2)
Materialism: The Industrial Era and the Urban Scene	363	(28)
The Global Dominion of the West	364	(3)
Advancing Industrialism	364	(1)
Colonialism and the New Imperialism	364	(1)
Social and Economic Realities	365	(1)
Marx and Engels	366	(1)
Ideas and Issues The Communist Revolution	366	(1)
Nietzsche's New Morality	367	(1)
Ideas and Issues Progress: The False Idea	367	(1)
Literary Realism	367	(3)
The Novels of Dickens and Twain	367	(1)
Russian Realism: Dostoevsky and Tolstoy	368	(1)
Ideas and Issues Dostoevsky: Lords of the Future	368	(1)
Flaubert and the Literary Heroine	368	(1)
Zola and the Naturalistic Novel	369	(1)
Realist Drama: Ibsen	369	(1)
Ideas and Issues Ibsen: A Doll's House	369	(1)
Late-Nineteenth-Century Architecture	370	(2)
Cast-Iron Structures	370	(1)
The Skyscraper	370	(2)
Realism in the Visual Arts	372	(5)
The Birth of Photography	372	(1)
Courbet and French Realist Painting	373	(1)
Daumier's Social Realism	373	(2)
The Scandalous Realism of Manet	375	(1)
Realism in American Painting	375	(2)
Impressionism	377	(4)
Monet: Pioneer Impressionist	377	(1)
Renoir and Degas	378	(1)
Parallels Photographs and Paintings	378	(1)
Cassatt: American Impressionist	379	(1)
Toulouse-Lautrec	380	(1)
Parallels Japanese Prints and European Paintings	380	(1)
Postimpressionism	381	(4)
Art Nouveau	381	(1)
Van Gogh and Gauguin	381	(1)
Ideas and Issues Gauguin: The Lost Eden	382	(1)
Seurat and Cezanne	382	(3)
Late-Nineteenth-Century Sculpture	385	(1)
Parallels Sculpture and Dance	385	(1)
Late-Nineteenth-Century Music	386	(1)
Verismo Opera: Puccini	386	(1)
Musical Impressionism: Debussy	386	(1)
Beyond the West: The Lure of the Exotic: Oceania	387	(1)
Afterword	388	(1)
Key Topics	388	(1)
Materialism Timeline	389	(2)
Modernism: The Assault on Tradition	391	(34)
New Directions	392	(1)
The New Physics	392	(1)
The Freudian Revolution	392	(1)
Ideas and Issues Religion as Mass-Delusion	393	(1)
War and Revolution	393	(3)
World War I	393	(1)
The Russian Revolution	393	(1)
Ideas and Issues The Mexican Revolution	394	(1)
Ideas and Issues Lenin: The Classless Society	394	(1)
Hitler and World War II	395	(1)
Beyond the West: Mao's China	396	(1)
Modern Literature	396	(3)
The Imagists	396	(1)
Eliot and Yeats	396	(1)
Parallels Text and Image: The Modern Wasteland	397	(1)
Ideas and Issues Yeats: ``The Second Coming''	397	(1)
Modern Fiction and Drama	398	(1)
Science Fiction and the Futurist Novel	398	(1)
Modern Art	399	(18)
Picasso and Cubism	399	(2)
Parallels ``Magical Objects''	401	(2)
Futurism	403	(1)
Matisse and Fauvism	404	(1)
Ideas and Issues The Birth of Motion Pictures	405	(1)
Nonobjective Art	405	(3)
Abstraction in Early Modern Sculpture	408	(1)
Expressionism	408	(1)
Fantasy, Dada, and Surrealism	409	(5)
Photography and Film	414	(3)
Modern Architecture	417	(2)
Wright and Modern Architecture	417	(1)
The Bauhaus and the International Style	418	(1)
Music and Dance	419	(3)
Stravinsky	419	(1)
Schoenberg	420	(1)
Modern Music-Drama and Opera	420	(1)
Modern Music in Soviet Russia and America	421	(1)
Modern Dance	421	(1)
Afterword	422	(1)
Key Topics	422	(1)
Modernism Timeline	423	(2)
Globalism: The Information Age	425	(37)
Postwar Convulsions	426	(2)
Existentialism	426	(1)
Ideas and Issues Sartre: Man Makes Himself	426	(1)
Theater of the Absurd	427	(1)
Ideas and Issues Postwar Cinema	427	(1)
The Quest for Equality	428	(8)
The End of Colonialism	428	(1)
The Quest for Racial Equality	429	(1)
Ideas and Issues Dark Voices	430	(1)
Ideas and Issues White No Longer	431	(1)
The Quest for Gender Equality	432	(1)
Ideas and Issues De Beauvoir: Woman as ``Other''	433	(1)
Ideas and Issues No Female Leonardo	433	(1)
Sexual Identity	433	(2)
Ethnicity and Identity	435	(1)
Science and Philosophy	436	(2)
Ideas and Issues Landmarks: The Universe and the Body	436	(1)
String Theory and Chaos Theory	437	(1)
The Human Genome	437	(1)
Language Theory	437	(1)
The Information Explosion	438	(2)
Ideas and Issues Information Technology Landmarks	439	(1)
Postmodernism: Art as Information	439	(1)
Literature in the Information Age	439	(1)
Art and Architecture	440	(14)
Abstract Expressionism	440	(1)
Parallels Action Painting: East and West	441	(1)
Pop Art	442	(2)
Post-Pop Abstraction	444	(2)
New Realism	446	(1)
Total Art	447	(3)
Video Art	450	(1)
Computers and the Visual Arts	450	(1)
Ideas and Issues Computers and Film	450	(1)
Parallels Updating Manet	451	(1)
Architecture in the Information Age	452	(2)
Music and Dance	454	(5)
Cage and Aleatory Music	454	(1)
Microtonality and Minimalism	454	(1)
Opera and Choral Music	454	(1)
Jazz	455	(1)
Electronic Music and Computers	456	(1)
Rock and Popular Music	457	(1)
Dance in the Information Age	458	(1)
Beyond the West: China: The ``Great Criticism''	459	(1)
Afterword	460	(1)
Key Topics	460	(1)
Information Age Timeline	461	(1)
Glossary	462	(5)
Further Reading	467	(2)
Literary Credits	469	(2)
Picture Credits	471	(2)
Index	473