Humanities in Western Culture A Search for Human Values

Name: Humanities in Western Culture A Search for Human Values
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ISBN: 9780697254252

ISBN-10: 0697254259

ISBN-13: 9780697254252

Edition: 4th 1996

Authors: Robert C. Lamm

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Book details

List price: $60.00
Edition: 4th
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 608
Size: 8.75" wide x 11.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 3.586
Language: English



Unit 1


Prehistory and Mesopotamia


Egypt


Unit 2


The Aegean Heritage


Early Greece: Preparation for the Good Life


Hellenic Athens: The Fulfillment of the Good Life


Greece: From Hellenic to Hellenistic World


The Greek Arts


Unit 3


A Thousand Years of Rome


Roman Art and Architecture: The Arts of Megalopolis


Unit 4


The Star and the Cross


The Beginnings of Christian Art


Unit 5


Building Medieval Walls


The Late Middle Ages: Expansion and Synthesis


The Medieval Synthesis in Art


Medieval Music: Sacred and Secular


Unit 6


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


Renaissance Art: A New Golden Age


Renaissance Music: Court and Church


Shadow and Substance: Literary Insights into the Renaissance


Unit 7


Science, Reason, and Absolutism


Art: Baroque, Rococo, and Neoclassic


Music: Baroque, Rococo, and Classical


Unit 8


Revolution, Romanticism, Realism


Romanticism in Music


Nineteenth-Century Art: Conflict and Diversity


Unit 9


Things Fall Apart: The Center Cannot Hold


Ideas and Conflicts that Motivate the Twentieth Century


Art in the Twentieth Century: Shock Waves and Reactions


Modern Music


Twentieth-Century Literature


Appendices