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9780697254290

Humanities in Western Culture Vol. II : A Search for Human Values

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    9780697254290

  • ISBN10:

    0697254291

  • Edition: 10th
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1995-10-01
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

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These two beautifully illustrated chronological volumes introduce your students to the arts of literature, sculpture, painting, architecture, music, photography, and film, and the philosophical ideas permeating ancient through modern civilizations. Packaged with supplemental Student Study Guides and audio cassettes to accompany each volume, this set provides an excellent all-in-one introduction to the humanities.

Table of Contents

Volume 1. Prehistory Middle Ages

Unit 1: Ancient River-Valley Civilizations

1 Prehistory and Mesopotamia

2 Egypt

Unit 2: Greece: Birthplace of Western Civilization

3 The Aegean Heritage

4 Early Greece: Preparation for the Good Life

5 Hellenic Athens: The Fulfillment of the Good Life

6 Greece: From Hellenic to Hellenistic World

7 The Greek Arts

Unit 3: Rome: The International Culture

8 A Thousand Years of Rome

9 Roman Art and Architecture: The Arts of Megalopolis

Unit 4: Judaism and Christianity

10 The Star and the Cross

11 The Beginnings of Christian Art

Unit 5: The Age of Faith

12 Building Medieval Walls

13 The Late Middle Ages: Expansion and Synthesis

14 The Medieval Synthesis in Art

15 Medieval Music: Sacred and Secular

Volume 2 Renaissance Twentieth Century

Unit 6: The Renaissance, 1350-1600

16 New Ideas and Discoveries Result from a New Way of Looking at the World

17 Renaissance Art: A New Golden Age

18 Renaissance Music: Court and Church

19 Shadow and Substance: Literary Insights into the Renaissance

Unit 7: The Early Modern World, 1600-1789

20 Science, Reason, and Absolutism

21 Art: Baroque, Rococo, and Neoclassic

22 Music: Baroque, Rococo, and Classical

Unit 8: the Middle Modern World, 1789-1914

23 Revolution, Romanticism, Realism

24 Romanticism in Music

25 Nineteenth-Century Art: Conflict and Diversity

Unit 9 The Twentieth Century

26 Things Fall Apart: The Center Cannot Hold

27 Ideas and Conflicts that Motivate the Twentieth Century

28 Art in the Twentieth Century: Shock Waves and Reactions

29 Modern Music

30 Twentieth-Century Literature

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