The Humanistic Tradition, Book 6: Modernism, Globalism, and the Information Age

by Fiero, Gloria K.

• ISBN13: 9780072910230
• ISBN10: 0072910232
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-12-07
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Summary

"The Humanistic Tradition is quite simply the finest book of its type. Fiero manages to integrate the political, cultural, and social history of the world into one coherent and fascinating whole. It is a masterpiece of scholarship . . . balanced, interesting, easy to read, and consummately beautiful. Our professors praise its accuracy and scope and our students unanimously say it is their favorite textbook." — Sonia Sorrell, Pepperdine University The Humanistic Tradition features a flexible, topical approach that helps students understand humankind's creative legacy as a continuum rather than as a series of isolated events. This widely acclaimed interdisciplinary survey offers a global perspective, countless illustrations, and more than 150 literary sources. Available in multiple formats, The Humanistic Tradition explores the political, economic, and social contexts of human culture, providing a global and multicultural perspective which helps students better understand the relationship between the West and other world cultures.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
BOOK 1 The First Civilizations and the Classical Legacy
Introduction: Prehistory and the Birth of Civilization
PART 1 The First Civilizations
Egypt: Gods, Rulers, and the Social Order
Mesopotamia: Gods, Rulers, and the Social Order
India and China: Gods, Rulers, and the Social Order
PART 2 The Classical Legacy
Greece: Humanism and the Speculative Leap
The Classical Style
Rome: The Rise to Empire
China: The Rise to Empire
BOOK 2 Medieval Europe and the World Beyond
PART 1 The Shaping of the Middle Ages
A Flowering of Faith: Christianity and Buddhism
The Language of Faith: Symbolism and the Arts
The Islamic World: Religion and Culture
PART 2 The Medieval West
Patterns of Medieval Life
Christianity and the Medieval Mind
The Medieval Synthesis in the Arts
PART 3 The World Beyond the West
Asian Civilizations: The Artistic Record
BOOK 3 The European Renaissance, the Reformation, and Global Encounter
PART 1 The Age of the Renaissance
Adversity and Challenge: The Fourteenth-Century Transition
Classical Humanism in the Age of the Renaissance
Renaissance Artists: Disciples of Nature, Masters of Invention
PART 2 A Brave New World
Africa, the Americas, and Cross-Cultural Encounter
Protest and Reform: The Waning of the Old Order
BOOK 4 Faith, Reason, and Power in the Early Modern World
PART 1 The Age of the Baroque
The Catholic Reformation and the Baroque Style
Absolute Power and the Aristocratic Style
The Baroque in the Protestant North
The Scientific Revolution and the New Learning
PART 2 The Age of Enlightenment
The Promise of Reason
The Limits of Reason
Eighteenth-Century Art, Music, and Society
BOOK 5 Romanticism, Realism, and the Nineteenth-Century World
PART 1 The Romantic Era
The Romantic View of Nature
The Romantic Hero
The Romantic Style in Art and Music
PART 2 Realism and the Modernist Turn
Industry, Empire, and the Realist Style
The Move Toward Modernism
BOOK 6 Modernism, Globalism, and the Information Age
PART 1 The Triumph of Modernism	1	(90)
Timeline	2	(1)
The Modernist Assault	3	(23)
The New Physics	3	(1)
Early Twentieth-Century Poetry	4	(1)
The Imagists	4	(1)
Reading 6.1 From Pound's Personae (1926)	4	(1)
Frost and Lyric Poetry	5	(1)
Reading 6.2 Frost's ``The Road Not Taken'' (1916)	5	(1)
Early Twentieth-Century Art	5	(13)
Picasso and the Birth of Cubism	5	(5)
Futurism	10	(2)
Matisse and Fauvism	12	(1)
The Birth of Motion Pictures	12	(2)
Brancusi and Abstraction	14	(1)
Abstraction and Photography	14	(1)
Nonobjective Art	14	(4)
Russian Constructivism	18	(1)
Early Twentieth-Century Architecture	18	(4)
The Architecture of Wright	18	(1)
The Bauhaus and the International Style	19	(3)
Early Twentieth-Century Music	22	(2)
Schoenberg	22	(1)
Stravinsky	23	(1)
The Beginnings of Modern Dance	24	(1)
Summary	24	(2)
Music Listening Selections	25	(1)
Glossary	25	(1)
The Freudian Revolution	26	(23)
Freud and the Psyche	26	(1)
Reading 6.3 From Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents (1930)	27	(3)
Freud's Followers	29	(1)
The New Psychology and Literature	30	(1)
Proust's Quest for Lost Time	30	(1)
Reading 6.4 From Proust's Swann's Way (1913)	30	(2)
The Nightmare Reality of Kafka	32	(1)
Reading 6.5 From Kafka's ``The Metamorphosis'' (1915)	32	(2)
Joyce and Stream of Consciousness Prose	33	(1)
The New Freedom in Poetry	34	(1)
Reading 6.6 cummings' [she being Brand] (1926)	34	(1)
The New Psychology and the Visual Arts	35	(12)
Expressionism	35	(2)
Metaphysical Art and Fantasy	37	(2)
The Dada Movement	39	(1)
Surrealism and Abstract Surrealists: Picasso, Miro, and Klee	40	(2)
Visionary Surrealists: Magritte and Dali	42	(2)
The Women of Surrealism	44	(1)
Dada and Surrealist Photography	45	(2)
Dada and Surrealist Film	47	(1)
The New Psychology and Music	47	(1)
Summary	48	(1)
Music Listening Selection	48	(1)
Glossary	48	(1)
Total War, Totalitarianism, and the Arts	49	(20)
World War I Literature	50	(1)
World War I Poetry	50	(1)
Reading 6.7 Poems of World War I	51	(1)
World War I Fiction	51	(1)
Reading 6.8 From Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front (1929)	52	(1)
World War I Art	53	(1)
The Russian Revolution	54	(1)
Experimental Film	55	(2)
The Great Depression and the American Scene	57	(2)
Totalitarianism and World War II	59	(2)
World War II Poetry	60	(1)
Reading 6.9 Poems of World War II	61	(3)
World War II Fiction	61	(1)
Film in the War Era	62	(2)
Responses to Totalitarianism	64	(1)
Reading 6.10 From Wiesel's Night (1958)	64	(1)
The Visual Arts in the War Era	65	(1)
Photojournalism	65	(1)
Picasso's Guernica	65	(1)
Music in the War Era	66	(1)
Copland and the American Sound	67	(1)
The Communist Revolution in China	67	(1)
Summary	68	(1)
Music Listening Selection	68	(1)
Glossary	68	(1)
The Quest for Meaning	69	(22)
Existentialism and Freedom	69	(1)
The Philosophy of Sartre	70	(1)
Reading 6.11 From Sartre's ``Existentialism'' (1945)	70	(3)
Christian Existentialism	72	(1)
Literature at Mid-Century	72	(1)
Theater of the Absurd	73	(1)
Reading 6.12 Beckett's Waiting for Godot (1948)	73	(1)
Poetry at Mid-Century	74	(1)
T. S. Eliot	74	(1)
Reading 6.13 Eliot's ``The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock'' (1915)	75	(2)
Dylan Thomas	76	(1)
Reading 6.14 Thomas' ``Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night'' (1951)	77	(1)
Rabindranath Tagore	77	(1)
Reading 6.15 Tagore's ``The Man Had No Useful Work'' (1921)	77	(1)
Islamic Poetry	78	(1)
Reading 6.16 Islamic Poems	78	(1)
The Visual Arts at Mid-Century	78	(7)
Painting	78	(1)
Film at Mid-Century	79	(4)
Sculpture	83	(2)
Architecture at Mid-Century	85	(3)
Music and Dance at Mid-Century	88	(1)
Summary	89	(2)
Music Listening Selection	89	(1)
Glossary	89	(2)
PART TWO The Postmodern Turn	91	(78)
Timeline	92	(1)
Liberation and Equality	93	(27)
Liberation and Literature in Latin America	93	(1)
Reading 6.17 Neruda's ``United Fruit Co.'' (1950)	94	(1)
The Quest for Racial Equality	94	(1)
The Harlem Renaissance	95	(1)
Reading 6.18 The Poems of Hughes and Brooks	95	(2)
Richard Wright and the Realities of Racism	96	(1)
Reading 6.19 From Wright's The Ethics of Living Jim Crow (1938)	97	(2)
The Civil Rights Movement	98	(1)
Reading 6.20 From King's Letter from Birmingham Jail (1963)	99	(2)
Reading 6.21 From Malcolm X's Message to the Grass Roots (1963)	101	(1)
The Literature of the Black Revolution	101	(1)
Reading 6.22 From Ellison's Invisible Man (1952)	102	(1)
Reading 6.23 Walker's ``Elethia'' (1981)	103	(6)
African-Americans and the Visual Arts	104	(1)
African-Americans and Film	105	(1)
African-Americans and Jazz	106	(2)
African-Americans and Dance	108	(1)
The Quest for Gender Equality	109	(1)
The Literature of Feminism: Woolf	109	(1)
Reading 6.24 From Woolf's ``A Room of One's Own'' (1929)	110	(1)
Postwar Feminism: de Beauvoir	111	(1)
Reading 6.25 From de Beauvoir's The Second Sex (1949)	111	(2)
Feminist Poetry	112	(1)
Reading 6.26 Feminist Poems	113	(6)
Feminist Art	114	(2)
Sexual Identity	116	(3)
Summary	119	(1)
Music Listening Selections	119	(1)
Glossary	119	(1)
The Information Age: Message and Meaning	120	(20)
The Information Explosion	120	(2)
New Directions in Science and Philosophy	122	(2)
String Theory	122	(1)
Chaos Theory	123	(1)
The Human Genome	123	(1)
Language Theory	123	(1)
Literature in the Information Age	124	(1)
Postmodernism	124	(1)
Reading 6.27 Paz's ``To Talk'' (1987)	124	(2)
Magic Realism	125	(1)
Reading 6.28 Allende's ``Two Words'' (1989)	126	(3)
Science Fiction	128	(1)
Science Fiction Film	129	(1)
The Literature of Social Conscience	129	(1)
Reading 6.29 Oates' ``Ace'' (1988)	129	(2)
Globalism	131	(1)
The Challenge of Globalism	131	(1)
Reading 6.30 Achebe's ``Dead Men's Path'' (1972)	132	(1)
The Global Ecosystem	133	(1)
Reading 6.31 From Wilson's The Diversity of Life (1992)	133	(1)
Reading 6.32 From Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (1974)	134	(1)
The Literature of Globalism	135	(1)
Reading 6.33 The Poems of Walcott and Szymborska	135	(2)
Globalism and Ethnic Identity	136	(1)
Reading 6.34 Cisneros' ``No Speak English'' from The House on Mango Street (1984)	137	(2)
Reading 6.35 The Poems of Darwish and Amichai	139	(1)
Summary	139	(1)
Glossary	139	(1)
Image and Sound in the Information Age	140	(29)
The Visual Arts in the Information Age	140	(20)
Warhol and Experimental Film	140	(1)
Pop Art	140	(2)
Assemblage	142	(1)
Art Film	142	(2)
Geometric Abstraction, Op, Minimal, Neon, and Kinetic Art	144	(3)
New Realism	147	(1)
New Expressionism	148	(1)
Social Conscience Art	148	(3)
Social Conscience Film	151	(1)
Total Art	152	(2)
Video Art	154	(2)
Computers and the Visual Arts	156	(2)
The Visual Arts and the Global Paradigm	158	(2)
Architecture in the Information Age	160	(4)
Computers and Film	160	(4)
Public Art	164	(1)
Music in the Information Age	164	(3)
Electronic Music and Computers	165	(1)
Minimal Music	165	(1)
Postmodern Opera	166	(1)
Rock Music	166	(1)
Music and the Global Paradigm	167	(1)
Dance in the Information Age	167	(1)
Summary	168	(1)
Music Listening Selections	168	(1)
Glossary	168	(1)
Suggestions for Reading	169	(2)
Credits	171	(1)
Index	172