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The Humanities: An Introduction to the Adventure | |
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Creating a Sense of Self | |
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Tradition: Nurturing the Creative Spirit | |
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Modes of Expression and Reflection | |
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The Arts | |
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The Pictorial Arts | |
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Sculpture: the Art of Shaping | |
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Architecture: the Art of Shelter | |
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Music: the Art of Sound | |
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Dance: the Art of Movement | |
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The Art of Theater | |
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A Note about Opera | |
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The Literary Arts | |
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An Invitation to the Adventure | |
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Chapter Summary | |
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The Ancient World | |
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The First Humans | |
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Mesopotamia | |
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The Sumerians | |
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Empires of the Near East | |
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KEY CONCEPT: Myth | |
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Ancient Egypt | |
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Egypt: Religion and Society | |
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The Arts of Egypt | |
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WINDOWS ON DAILY LIFE: Death at an Egyptian Banquet | |
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Asia and America | |
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The Indus Valley | |
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Bronze Age China | |
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KEY CONCEPT: Civilizations and Progress | |
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Ancient America | |
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Chapter Summary | |
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Critical Question | |
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Ancient Greece: the Classical Spirit | |
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Early Greece | |
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The Aegean World | |
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Early Greek Poetry | |
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Religion and Philosophy in Early Greece | |
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Art in Early Greece | |
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The Classical Period | |
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Athens in its Golden Age | |
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WINDOWS ON DAILY LIFE: the Plague of Athens | |
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Classical Greek Art | |
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The Athenian Acropolis | |
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Classical Sculpture | |
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KEY CONCEPT: the Classical Ideal | |
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Greek Theater and Music | |
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Greek Tragedy | |
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Greek Comedy | |
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Greek Music and Dance | |
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Classical Greek Philosophy | |
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The Sophists and Socrates | |
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Plato | |
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GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE: Confucius and Philosophy | |
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Aristotle | |
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The Hellenistic Age | |
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The Hellenistic Legacy | |
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Chapter Summary | |
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Critical Question | |
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The Write Idea | |
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Ancient Rome: the Spirit of Empire | |
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The Drama of Roman History | |
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The Rise of Republican Rome | |
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KEY CONCEPT: Imperialism | |
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Imperial Rome | |
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The Art of an Empire | |
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Sculpture as Propaganda | |
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The Forum of Trajan | |
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KEY CONCEPT: the World Citizen | |
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The Romans as Builders | |
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Roman Art and Daily Life | |
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Roman Daily Life | |
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WINDOWS ON DAILY LIFE: A Marriage Contract of the Roman Era | |
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Roman Theater and Music | |
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The Romans as Poets and Thinkers | |
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Early Roman Poets | |
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Roman Epic and Satire | |
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Philosophy in the Roman World | |
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GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE: the Rise of Buddhism | |
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Rome's Division and Decline | |
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Chapter Summary | |
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CRITICAL QUESTION 76 | |
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THE WRITE IDEA 72 | |
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The Spirit of Monotheism: Judaism, Christianity, Islam | |
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The Judaic Tradition | |
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History and the Israelites | |
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The Hebrew Bible | |
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KEY CONCEPT: Monotheism | |
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Job and the Trials of Israel | |
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The Rise of Christianity | |
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Jesus of Nazareth | |
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The Growth of Christianity | |
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WINDOWS ON DAILY LIFE: the Siege of Jerusalem | |
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Christianity in the Late Roman Empire | |
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Philosophy: Classical and Christian | |
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From Classical to Christian | |
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Augustine of Hippo | |
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KEY CONCEPT: Original Sin and Human Nature | |
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The Christian Empires: Rome and Byzantium | |
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St. Peter's and the Pope | |
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Justinian and the Byzantine World | |
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Ravenna: Showcase of the Christian Arts | |
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Christianity and the Arts | |
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Early Christian Music | |
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GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE: Teotihuacà n: Sacred City of Mesoamerica | |
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Christianity Against the Arts | |
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The Rise of Islam | |
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The Foundations of Islam | |
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Islamic Arts and Science | |
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Dawn of the Middle Ages | |
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Chapter Summary | |
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Critical Question | |
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The Write Idea | |
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The Early Middle Ages: the Feudal Spirit | |
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The Age of Charlemagne | |
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Northern Edge of the Early Middle Ages | |
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Charlemagne's Empire | |
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Carolingian Arts | |
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Feudal Europe | |
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Feudalism | |
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WINDOWS ON DAILY LIFE: Work in Charlemagne's World | |
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The Arts of Feudalism | |
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The Bayeux Tapestry | |
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The Flowering of Muslim Spain | |
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Monasticism | |
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The Monastic Ideal | |
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Hrotsvit and the Classical Tradition | |
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GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE: the Blood of Maya Kings | |
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The Romanesque Style | |
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Imperial Revival and the Romanesque Style | |
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The Romanesque Church: Monks and Pilgrims | |
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Romanesque Sculpture | |
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KEY CONCEPT: Pilgrimage | |
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Early Medieval Music and Drama | |
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Musical Notation | |
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Hildegard of Bingen: Musical Mystic | |
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Drama in the Medieval Church | |
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KEY CONCEPT: Mysticism | |
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The Medieval Philosopher | |
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Early Medieval Philosophy | |
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Abelard | |
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The Medieval Spirit and the First Crusade | |
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Chapter Summary | |
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Critical Question | |
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The Write Idea | |
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The Late Middle Ages: the Gothic Awakening | |
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The Gothic Awakening | |
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The Crusades and the Decline of Feudalism | |
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The Rise of Towns and Cities | |
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The Gothic Style | |
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The Gothic Style and Divine Light | |
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The Cathedral at Chartres | |
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Gothic Sculpture | |
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Music and Theater in the Gothic Age | |
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The Evolution of Organum | |
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GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE: Buddhism in Asia | |
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Gothic Theater: From Church to Town | |
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The New Learning | |
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The Universities | |
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KEY CONCEPT: Scholasticism | |
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Thomas Aquinas | |
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Court and City in the Late Middle Ages | |
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Courtly Love and Medieval Romance | |
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KEY CONCEPT: Chivalry | |
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Music in the Late Middle Ages | |
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Dante's Divine Comedy | |
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Chaucer's Canterbury Pilgrims | |
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WINDOWS ON DAILY LIFE: the Plague and Prosperity | |
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The Late Gothic | |
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Reclaiming the Classical Past | |
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Giotto and the International Gothic | |
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Chapter Summary | |
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Critical Question | |
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The Renaissance Spirit in Italy | |
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The Renaissance in Italy | |
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The Italian City-States | |
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KEY CONCEPT: Renaissance Humanism | |
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Patronage of the Arts and Learning | |
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WINDOWS ON DAILY LIFE: the Violence of Renaissance Youth | |
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The Arts in Early Renaissance Italy | |
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Florence 1401 A Renaissance Begins | |
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Brunelleschi's Domes | |
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Florentine Painting: A Refined Classicism | |
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Italian Renaissance Music | |
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Early Renaissance Sculpture | |
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KEY CONCEPT: the Science of Perspective | |
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GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE: Great Zimbabwe | |
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The Decline of Florence | |
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Renaissance Genius | |
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Machiavelli and Humanist Politics | |
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Leonardo da Vinci | |
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KEY CONCEPT: the Renaissance Man and Woman | |
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The High Renaissance in Rome | |
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Josquin des Prÿz | |
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Raphael | |
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Michelangelo in Rome | |
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The New St. Peter's | |
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An Age of Giants | |
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Chapter Summary | |
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Critical Question | |
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The Write Idea | |
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Reformation and Late Renaissance | |
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The Reformation | |
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Luther's Challenge | |
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The Appeal of the Reformation | |
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Calvinism | |
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The Rise of Northern Europe | |
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KEY CONCEPT: the "Protestant Ethic": God, Work, and Wealth | |
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Kings, Commerce, and Columbus | |
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The Northern Renaissance Courts | |
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GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE: the Ottoman Empire | |
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WINDOWS ON DAILY LIFE: A Midwife's Advice | |
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Art and Humanism in Northern Europe | |
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Faith and Humanism in Northern Art | |
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Erasmus and Humanism | |
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Utopians and Skeptics | |
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The Elizabethan Age | |
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KEY CONCEPT: Skepticism | |
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The Reformation in England | |
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Theater in the Elizabethan Age | |
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The Genius of Shakespeare | |
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Elizabethan Music | |
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The Late Renaissance in Italy and Spain | |
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Palestrina and the Counter-Reformation | |
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Renaissance Theater in Italy | |
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The Renaissance in Venice | |
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Late Renaissance Painting and Mannerism | |
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Chapter Summary | |
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Critical Question | |
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The Write Idea | |
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The Spirit of Baroque | |
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The Baroque in Italy | |
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Bernini and Counter-Reformation Rome | |
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GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE: the Taj Mahal | |
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Italian Baroque Painting | |
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The Birth of Opera | |
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KEY CONCEPT: Absolutism | |
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The Baroque in Spain | |
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Spanish Baroque Architecture | |
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Velà zquez and Cervantes Masters of Illusion | |
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The Baroque In France | |
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The Palace of Versailles | |
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Theater and Dance at Versailles | |
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Painting in Baroque France | |
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The Protestant Baroque | |
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J. S. Bach Baroque Genius | |
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Bach's "Well-tempered Clavier" | |
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Rembrandt and Dutch Baroque Painting | |
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KEY CONCEPT: Empiricism | |
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The New Science | |
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Tools of the New Science | |
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Descartes and Newton | |
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The English Compromise | |
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English Baroque Poetry | |
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Christopher Wren's London | |
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WINDOWS ON DAILY LIFE: the Fire of London | |
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Handel and Music in England | |
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Politics and Philosophy in England | |
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Chapter Summary | |
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Critical Question | |
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The Write Idea | |
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The Spirit of Enlightenment | |
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The Rococo Style | |
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The Rococo in France | |
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The Rococo in Germany and Britain | |
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The Enlightenment | |
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The Philosophes | |
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Enlightenment and Freedom | |
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KEY CONCEPT: Enlightenment | |
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The Bourgeois Response | |
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The Bourgeois Style in Painting | |
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The Rise of the Novel | |
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GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE: Kabuki Theater | |
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The Bourgeois Theater in Germany | |
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Music in the Age of Enlightenment | |
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Mozart and Opera | |
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The Classical Symphony | |
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The Neoclassical Style | |
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Neoclassical Architecture | |
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KEY CONCEPT: Neoclassicism | |
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Neoclassical Painting | |
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The Age of Satire | |
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Swift | |
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WINDOWS ON DAILY LIFE: Women Gladiators | |
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Satire and Society in Art | |
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Voltaire | |
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Chapter Summary | |
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Critical Question | |
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The Write Idea | |
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Revolution and Romanticism | |
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Revolutions and Rights | |
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The Revolutionary Wave 1776 and 1789 | |
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The Napoleonic Era | |
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KEY CONCEPT: Freedom | |
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The Industrial Revolution | |
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Revolution and Philosophy | |
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The Romantic Hero | |
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Faust and the Romantics | |
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Delacroix and the Byronic Hero | |
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Music and Dance in the Romantic Age | |
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Beethoven: From Classical to Romantic | |
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Age of the Virtuoso | |
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Berlioz's Fantastic Symphony | |
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Elements of Romanticism | |
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Romantic Social Protest | |
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The Romantics and Nature | |
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KEY CONCEPT: Imagination | |
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Romantic Escapes | |
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WINDOWS ON DAILY LIFE: Native Storytellers | |
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Evil and the Gothic Novel | |
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Chapter Summary | |
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Critical Question | |
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The Write Idea | |
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The Industrial Age: the Spirit of Materialism | |
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Materialism and Progress | |
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The Victorians | |
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Realism in Pictorial Art | |
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The Realist Novel | |
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The Modern City | |
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Music and Modernity | |
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Verdi's Operas | |
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Wagner's Musical Revolution | |
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KEY CONCEPT: Modernity | |
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Late Romantic Music and Dance | |
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Late Romantics and Early Moderns | |
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Symbolism and Art Nouveau | |
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WINDOWS ON DAILY LIFE: A Musical Career | |
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Debussy and Rodin���The Break with Tradition | |
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Impressionism | |
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GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE: the Japanese Color Print | |
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Beyond Impressionism | |
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The Dark Side of Progress | |
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The Realist Theater | |
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The Novel and Modern Philosophy | |
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KEY CONCEPT: Human Will | |
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Chapter Summary | |
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Critical Question | |
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The Write Idea | |
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The Spirit of Modernism | |
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A Turbulent Century | |
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A New Science | |
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The Great War | |
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Fascism and the Rise of Mass Society | |
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Modernism in Art | |
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WINDOWS ON DAILY LIFE: War, Fashion, and Feminism | |
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Picasso and the Revolution in Art | |
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KEY CONCEPT: Primitivism | |
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Toward Formal Abstraction | |
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Expressionism and Dada | |
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The Modern Mind | |
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Freud and Surrealism | |
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KEY CONCEPT: the Unconscious | |
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Modernism in Literature | |
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Modernist Music and Architecture | |
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Stravinsky and Schoenberg the New Music | |
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Modernist Building and Design | |
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Art and Politics | |
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Brecht's Epic Theater | |
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Painting and Politics | |
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Politics and the Cinema | |
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In the American Grain | |
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Regionalism and Renaissance | |
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The American Scene | |
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The Age of Jazz | |
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World War and Holocaust | |
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Chapter Summary | |
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Critical Question | |
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The Write Idea | |
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The Contemporary Spirit | |
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The Age of Anxiety | |
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Post-war America | |
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Exploring the Absurd | |
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GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE: Gandhi and | |
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Colonial Liberation | |
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KEY CONCEPT: Existentialism | |
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The Theater of the Absurd | |
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The Existential Hero | |
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Art in the Post-war Era | |
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The New York School | |
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Pop, Minimalism, and the Avant-garde | |
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KEY CONCEPT: the Avant-garde | |
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Sculpture in the Post-war Era | |
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The Trials of Modern Architecture | |
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Triumph of the International Style | |
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Building as Sculpture | |
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Post-1945 Music | |
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The Avant-garde in Music | |
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The Pop Rebellion | |
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The Post-modern Styles | |
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Post-modern Architecture | |
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Minimalism in Music | |
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The Contemporary Visual Arts | |
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The New Fiction | |
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The Global Culture | |
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Liberated Voices | |
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AIDS and the Arts | |
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WINDOWS ON DAILY LIFE: Living and Dying with AIDS | |
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A New Century���Promise and Challenge | |
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Chapter Summary | |
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Critical Question | |
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The Write Idea | |
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Notes | |
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Glossary | |
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Further Reading | |
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Picture Credits | |
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Index | |