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| Preface | |
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| Fundamentals | |
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| The Humanities: An Introduction | |
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| The Humanities: A Study of Values | |
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| Taste | |
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| Responses to Art | |
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| Structure and Artistic Form | |
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| Perception | |
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| Abstract Ideas and Concrete Images | |
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| What Is a Work of Art? | |
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| Identifying Art Conceptually | |
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| Identifying Art Perceptually | |
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| Artistic Form | |
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| Participation | |
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| Participation and Artistic Form | |
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| Content | |
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| Subject Matter | |
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| Subject Matter and Artistic Form | |
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| Participation, Artistic Form, and Content | |
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| Artistic Form: Examples | |
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| Subject Matter and Content | |
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| Being a Critic of the Art | |
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| You Are Already an Art Critic | |
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| Participation and the Critic | |
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| Kinds of Criticism | |
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| Descriptive Criticism | |
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| Detail, Regional, and Structural Relationships | |
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| Interpretive Criticism | |
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| Evaluative Criticism | |
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| The Arts | |
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| Painting | |
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| Your Visual Powers | |
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| The Media of Painting | |
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| Tempera | |
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| Fresco | |
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| Oil | |
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| Watercolor | |
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| Acrylic | |
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| Other Media | |
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| Pigment and Binders | |
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| Elements of Painting | |
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| Line | |
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| Color | |
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| Texture | |
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| Composition | |
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| The Clarity of Painting | |
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| The "All-at-Onceness" of Painting | |
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| Abstract Painting | |
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| Intensity and Restfulness | |
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| Representational Painting | |
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| Comparison of Five Impressionist Paintings | |
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| Determining the Subject Matter of Painting | |
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| Interpretation of the Self: Frida Kahlo, Romaine Brooks, and Rembrandt van Rijn | |
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| Some Painting Styles of the Past Hundred Years | |
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| Sculpture | |
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| Sculpture and Touch | |
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| Sculpture and Density | |
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| Sensory Interconnections | |
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| Sculpture and Painting Compared | |
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| Sunken-Relief Sculpture | |
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| Low-Relief Sculpture | |
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| High-Relief Sculpture | |
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| Sculpture in the Round | |
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| Sensory Space | |
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| Sculpture and the Human Body | |
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| Sculpture in the Round and the Human Body | |
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| Techniques of Sculpture | |
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| Contemporary Sculpture | |
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| Truth to Materials | |
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| Space Sculpture | |
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| Protest Against Technology | |
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| Accomodation with Technology | |
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| Machine Sculpture | |
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| Earth Sculpture | |
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| Sculpture in Public Places | |
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| Architecture | |
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| Centered Space | |
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| Space and Architecture | |
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| Chartres | |
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| Living Space | |
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| Four Necessities of Architecture | |
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| Technical Requirements of Architecture | |
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| Functional Requirements of Architecture | |
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| Spatial Requirements of Architecture | |
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| Revelatory Requirements of Architecture | |
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| Earth-Rooted Architecture | |
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| Site | |
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| Gravity | |
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| Raw Materials | |
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| Centrality | |
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| Sky-Oriented Architecture | |
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| Axis Mundi | |
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| Defiance of Gravity | |
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| Integration of Light | |
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| Earth-Resting Architecture | |
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| Earth-Dominating Architecture | |
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| Combinations of Types | |
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| Two Contemporary Architects: Zaha Hadid and Santiago Calatrava | |
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| Urban Planning | |
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| Literature | |
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| Spoken Language and Literature | |
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| Literary Structures | |
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| The Narrative and the Narrator | |
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| The Episodic Narrative | |
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| The Organic Narrative | |
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| The Quest Narrative | |
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| The Lyric | |
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| Literary Details | |
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| Image | |
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| Metaphor | |
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| Symbol | |
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| Irony | |
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| Diction | |
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| Drama | |
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| Aristotle and the Elements of Drama | |
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| Dialogue and Soliloquy | |
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| Imitation and Realism | |
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| An Alternative Theory of Tragedy | |
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| Archetypal Patterns | |
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| Genres of Drama: Tragedy | |
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| The Tragic Stage | |
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| Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet | |
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| Comedy: Old and New | |
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| Tragicomedy: The Mixed Genre | |
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| A Play for Study: The Bear | |
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| Musical Comedy | |
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| Modern Drama | |
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| Music | |
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| Hearing and Listening | |
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| Tone | |
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| Consonance | |
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| Dissonance | |
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| Rhythm | |
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| Tempo | |
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| Melodic Material: Melody, Theme, and Motive | |
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| Counterpoint | |
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| Harmony | |
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| Dynamics | |
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| Contrast | |
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| The Subject Matter of Music | |
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| Feelings | |
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| Two Theories: Formalism and Expressionism | |
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| Sound | |
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| Tonal Center | |
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| Musical Structures | |
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| Theme and Variations | |
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| Rondo | |
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| Fugue | |
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| Sonata Form | |
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| Fantasia | |
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| Symphony | |
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| Beethoven's Symphony in E-flat Major, No. 3, Eroica | |
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| Listening Key: The Symphony | |
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| Blues and Popular Music | |
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| Dance | |
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| Subject Matter of Dance | |
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| Form | |
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| Dance and Ritual | |
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| Indian Dance | |
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| The Zuni Rain Dance | |
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| Social Dance | |
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| The Court Dance | |
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| Ballet | |
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| Swan Lake | |
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| Modern Dance | |
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| Alvin Ailey's Revelations | |
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| Martha Graham | |
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| Pilobolus and Momix Dance Companies | |
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| Mark Morris Dance Group | |
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| Twyla Tharp | |
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| Popular Dance | |
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| Film | |
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| The Subject Matter of Film | |
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| Directing and Editing | |
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| The Participative Experience and Film | |
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| The Film Image | |
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| Camera Point of View | |
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| Audience Response to Film | |
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| Sound | |
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| Image and Action | |
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| Film Structure | |
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| Filmic Meanings | |
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| The Context of Film History | |
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| Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather | |
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| The Narrative Structure of The Godfather Films | |
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| Coppola's Images | |
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| Coppola's Use of Sound | |
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| The Power of The Godfather | |
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| A Classic Film: Casablanca | |
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| Experimentation | |
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| Television and Video Art | |
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| The Evolution of Television | |
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| The Subject Matter of Television and Video Art | |
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| Commercial Television | |
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| The Television Series | |
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| The Structure of the Self-Contained Episode | |
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| The Television Serial | |
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| Video Art | |
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| Photography | |
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| Photography and Painting | |
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| Photography and Painting: The Pictorialists | |
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| Straight Photography | |
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| Stieglitz: Pioneer of Straight Photography | |
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| The F/64 Group | |
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| The Documentarists | |
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| The Modern Eye | |
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| Color Photography | |
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| Interrelationships | |
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| Is it Art or Something Like It? | |
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| Art and Artlike | |
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| Illustration | |
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| Realism | |
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| Folk Art | |
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| Popular Art | |
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| Propaganda | |
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| Kitsch | |
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| Decoration | |
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| Design | |
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| Idea Art | |
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| Dada | |
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| Duchampism | |
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| Conceptual Art | |
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| Performance | |
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| Shock Art | |
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| Virtual Art | |
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| The Interrelationships of the Arts | |
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| Appropriation | |
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| Synthesis | |
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| Interpretation | |
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| Film Interprets Literature: Howards End | |
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| Music Interprets Drama: The Marriage of Figaro | |
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| Poetry Interprets Painting: The Starry Night | |
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| Sculpture Interprets Poetry: Apollo and Daphne | |
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| Painting Interprets Dance and Music: The Dance and Music | |
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| The Interrelationships of the Humanities | |
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| The Humanities and the Sciences | |
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| The Arts and the Other Humanities | |
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| Perceiving and Thinking | |
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| Values | |
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| The Arts and History | |
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| The Arts and Philosophy | |
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| The Arts and Theology | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Dada | |
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| Index | |