Designed to for a one-semester Western humanities course, this concise text offers a lavishly produced art program and abridged literary selections. The revised fourth edition has been updated throughout and now includes a unit on the twenty-first century.
CONTENTS
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
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 Music in the Twentieth Century
30 Twentieth-Century Literature
Unit 10: Into the Twenty-First Century
31 Crossing Borders: Historical Overview, 1990-2003
32 Art in the Twenty-First Century
33 Music in the Twenty-First Century
34 Literature for the New Century
Appendices