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In studying the humanities, this text focuses its attention on works of art that reflect and embody the central values and beliefs of particular cultures and specific historical moments.
NEW: Four-color Design. The 10th Edition is the first completely four-color edition, eliminating the color inserts from previous editions.
NEW: Expanded coverage of contemporary music includes new sections on Rock & Roll, Rap and Digital music.
NEW: Greater focus on non-Western and minority art includes new images and content in the Pictures, Sculpture, Architecture and Film chapters to provide a more global emphasis for the new edition.
NEW: Clearer organization includes a redesign of the headings throughout the book to make navigating the material easier and more intuitive.
For one semester/quarter courses on Introduction to the Humanities or Cultural Studies.
Now in full color, Arts and Culture provides an introduction to global civilizations and their artistic achievements, history, and cultures. The authors consider two important questions: What makes a work a masterpiece of its type? And what qualities of a work enable it to be appreciated over time? Critical thinking is also highlighted throughout the text with 4 different box features that ask students to explore connections across the humanities and different cultures. These boxes are entitled Connections, Cross Currents, Then & Now, and Cultural Impact boxes. Open the new fourth edition of Arts and Culture and open a world of discovery.
13. Renaissance and Mannerism in Italy
14. Renaissance in Northern Europe
15. Baroque Age
16. Eighteenth Century
17. Romanticism and Realism
18. Impressionism and Post-Impressionism
19. Later Chinese Civilization
20. Later Japanese Civilization
21. Later Africa and Latin America
22. Early Twentieth Century
23. Mid-Twentieth Century and Later
24. Diversity in Contemporary Life
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Superb Box Program to highlights connections between the arts and different cultures:
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Interdisciplinary Connections boxes highlight how artists’/thinkers’ ideas in one discipline affected ideas and values shaped in another.
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Cultural Cross Currents boxes – explore connections made between two cultures, focusing on sub-topics in the various disciplines and helping students engage in cross-cultural studies.
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Then & Now boxes – Helps students link things they already know with things they don’t know. Draws from contemporary culture, showing students how artifacts of today’s American culture have roots in past Western and non-Western civilizations alike.
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Cultural Impact boxes show students how past achievements influenced later cultures and how they still impact the contemporary world.
Music CD: A music CD that accompanies the music selections in the text is available to package with this text.
For an undergraduate introductory level course in humanities.
An introduction to the world’s major civilizations.
This Fourth Edition is an introduction to the world’s major civilizations— their artistic achievements, their history, and their cultures. Through an integrated approach to the humanities, Arts and Culture offers an opportunity to view works of art, read literature, and listen to music in historical and cultural contexts. In studying the humanities, we focus our attention on works of art, literature, and music that reflect and embody the central values and beliefs of particular cultures and specific historical moments.
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| Dimensions | 0.70 × 8.50 × 10.80 in |
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| Subjects | art, higher education, humanities, Humanities and Social Sciences, Introduction to Humanities |