Creative Impulse : An Introduction to the Arts

by Sporre, Dennis J.

• ISBN13: 9780131936805
• ISBN10: 0131936808
• Edition: 7th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-01-01
• Publisher: Pearson College Div

Summary

This volume presents an overview of the arts in the Western tradition; within the contexts of the philosophy, religion, aesthetic theory, economics, and politics surrounding them. It is an historical introduction to the humanities yielding a basic familiarity with major styles and their implications, as well as a sense of the historical development of individual arts media.Chapters present and discuss a formal analysis of works of art in the following periods: the Ancient World, the Aegean and Archaic Greece, Greek Classicism and Hellenism, the Roman Period, Judaism and Early Christianity, Byzantium and Islam, the Early Middle Ages, the High Middle Ages, Early Renaissance, High Renaissance, the High, Renaissance and Reformation, the Baroque Age, the Enlightenment, the Romantic Age, Realism, Impressionism, Modernism, and Postmodernism.For art history enthusiasts and those interested in a familiarity with major styles and their implications, as well as a sense of the historical development.

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction: Getting Started and Understanding and Evaluating the Arts

Getting Started Two-dimensional Art

Media Composition Elements

Principles

Techniques: Linear Perspective Sculpture Dimensionality Texture 2

Techniques: Lost-Wax Casting Architecture Structure Music Genres

Techniques: Musical Notation

Melody and Form Theatre Genres Plot Character

Themes and Ideas Visual Elements Cinema Dance Genres Line, Form, and Repetition

Features

Pronunciation Profiles

Masterwork Maps and Timelines

Chapter Opener

Chapter Review

Cybersources and Examples

Understanding and Evaluating the Arts

Putting the Arts in Context

The Arts and Ways of Knowing What Concerns Art?

Creativity Aesthetic Communication Symbols Fine and Applied Art

The Functions of Art

Entertainment Political and Social Commentary

Therapy Artifact

Evaluating Works of Art

Types of Criticism

Formal Criticism

Contextual Criticism

Structuralism

Deconstruction Making Judgments

Artisanship Communication

The Ancient World

Contexts and Concepts Contexts

The Stone Age Mesopotamia

Ancient Egypt Concepts

Individuality and Symbols

Civilization Religion

Literacy Law

The Arts of the Ancient World Painting

Sculpture Masterwork: The Tell Asmar Statues

Profile: Akhenaton and Nefertiti Architecture

Music

Dance

Literature

Archaic Greece and the Aegean

Contexts and Concepts

Contexts Minoans Mycenaeans

The Dark Centuries Hellenes Concepts

The Polis Olympian Gods Love of Wisdom

The Arts of Archaic Greece and the Aegean Painting

Geometric Style

Archaic Style

Red- and Black-Figure

Pottery Sculpture

Architecture

Music

Dance

Literature

Homer Sappho

Hesiod Aesop

Greek Classicism and Hellenism

Contexts and Concepts Contexts

The Persian War

The Golden Age of Pericles

The Peloponnesian War

The Hellenistic Age Concepts

Historia Sophistry Cynicism and Skepticism

Stoicism and Epicureanism

Mystery Cults

Ethics Aesthetics Plato

Aristotle Classicism and Hellenism

The Arts of the Classical and Hellenistic Ages

Painting Sculpture

Classical Style

Masterwork: Myron Discus

Thrower Late Classical Style

Hellenistic Style

Architecture Masterwork: The Parthenon Theatre Tragedy

Aristotles Theory of Tragedy

Aeschylus Profile: Aeschylus Sophocles

Masterwork:Sophocles Oedipus the King Euripides Tragic Costume Comedy

The Greek Theatre

Music

Dance

Literature

The Roman Period

Contexts and Concepts Contexts Etruscans

The Roman Republic Military Expansion

The Roman Civil War

The Roman Empire Augustus Pax Romana Concepts

Roman Law

Stoicism Neo-Platonism Divinities and Mystery

Cults Classicism Utilitarianism and Pragmatism

The Arts of the Roman Period

Painting Sculpture Architecture Masterwork: The Pantheon

Theatre Comedy

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