Art

For a one or two-semester course in Introduction to Humanities and Cultural Studies.

Arts and Culture is richly illustrated, beautifully designed, engaging, and now includes a media demonstration CD-ROM to ensure students see and learn about the arts. This text offers an integrated exploration of Western civilization's cultural heritage. Students move chronologically through major periods and styles to gain insight into the achievements and ideas in painting, sculpture, architecture, literature, philosophy, religion, and music. Divided into 24 chapters, the text provides students with a historical (political, economic, and social) framework to contextualize these achievements within a specific time and place, from prehistoric culture to 20th-Century America. Timelines, maps, four-color and two-color illustrations, and a variety of unique “interrelationship” boxes help students make important interdisciplinary and cross-cultural connections, and help them relate the richness and meaning of the past to their own lives in the present.

• NEW - A unique “Starter Kit” with an accompanying CD-ROM.

  • Provides demonstration for understanding the arts (painting, sculpture, and architecture)—as well as music, literature, theatre and dance.

• Chronologically organized content—Beginning with a brief introduction to prehistoric culture and ending with 20th-Century Multicultural America and the Global Village.

A combined volume and a two-volume split:

• Volume I covers prehistory to the late Medieval (Chs. 1-12), and includes literary and philosophical excerpts.

• Volume II covers the Early Renaissance in Italy to the present (Chs. 13-24), and includes literary and philosophical excerpts.

• The Combined Volume includes Chs. 1-24, but does not include the literary and philosophical excerpts.

• Beautifully-designed four color format—With nearly 600 captioned illustrations—in both four-color and two-color—and color text features.

• Introduction to the humanities.

  • Outlines the goals of a humanities course and asks students—What is culture? Why study the humanities? What can we learn by studying our Western cultural heritage in an integrated manner?

• A focus on how art does not happen in a vacuum.

  • Makes clear the effect socio-economic and political factors have on philosophical, ideological and religious ideas, and the artistic output of each period.

• Emphasis on non-Western influences on Western culture and the celebration of other cultures.

Three types of unique “interrelationship” boxes that make clear connections among various artistic media, disciplines, cultures, and time:

• Connections.

  • Highlights how artists'/thinkers' ideas in one discipline affected ideas and values shaped in another.

• Cross Currents.

  • Explores connections made between two cultures, focusing on sub-topics in the various disciplines and helping students engage in cross-cultural studies.

• Then and Now.

  • Helps students link things they already know (Now) with things they don't know (Then). Draws from contemporary culture, showing students how artifacts of today's American culture have roots in past Western and non-Western civilizations alike.

• Topically-oriented Timelines —Link events and cultural achievements visually on focused time periods and styles.

  • Shows both key people and events in historical context.

• Maps.

  • Shows the geographic and the cultural boundaries for each chapter.

• An emphasis on “cities as centers of civilization”— Contains descriptive, often imaginative, passages on cities that flourished during the individual periods covered—e.g., a passage describing life in Florence gives students a chance to see, hear, and smell the delights of the early Renaissance in Italy.

  • Immerses students in the social/cultural milieu.

• Pronunciation Guides —Located conveniently where students need them—right next to the many difficult and unfamiliar names and terms.

• Literary and philosophical excerpts at the end of each chapter—Contained in Volumes I and II.

  • Features readings from Western and non-Western literature and philosophy representing both men and women.

Accompanying music CD—

• Gregorian Chant, Kyrie: Hodie Christus Resurrexit

• Hildegard von Bingen, The Lauds of Saint Ursula,(O Ecclesia: Excerpt)

• Josquin Desprez, Ave Maria...Virgo Serena

• Palestrina, Pope Marcellus Mass (Kyrie)

• Morley, Now Is the Time of Maying

• Bach, Cantata No. 80 (Final Chorale)

• Handel, Messiah (Hallelujah Chorus)

• Vivaldi, The Four Seasons (Spring)

• Mozart, Sonata No. 11 for Piano in A, K. 331 (Rondo: Alla Turca)

• Beethoven, Symphony No. 5 (1st Movement)

• Schubert, The Erlking

• Chopin, Nocturne in E-Flat Major, Op. 9, No. 2

• Berlioz, Symphonie Fantastique (4th Movement)

• Verdi, Rigoletto (La Donna E Mobile)

• Wagner, Tristan and Isolde (Liebestod: Excerpt)

• Debussy, Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun (Excerpt)

• Stravinsky, The Rite of Spring (Augeries of Spring: Dances of the Youths and Maidens)

• Copland, Appalachian Spring (Variations on “The Gift to Be Simple” )

• Armstrong, Mack the Knife

• Ellington, It Don't Mean a Thing

• Indian, Gats in Raga Yaman (Excerpt)

• Arabic, Taqism Nahawand (First two sections)

• African, Alima Girls Initiation Music

• A unique “Starter Kit” with an accompanying CD-ROM.

  • Provides demonstration for understanding the arts (painting, sculpture, and architecture)—as well as music, literature, theatre and dance.

(NOTE: Volume I consists of Chs. 1-12; Volume II consists of Chs. 13-24; the Combined Volume consists of Chs. 1-24.)

 1. The Dawn of Culture.


 2. Ancient Egypt.


 3. Aegean Culture and the Rise of Ancient Greece.


 4. Classical and Hellenistic Greece.


 5. The Roman World.


 6. Judaism and the Rise of Christianity.


 7. Byzantine & Islamic Civilizations.


 8. Indian Civilization.


 9. Early Chinese & Japanese Civilizations.


10. The Civilizations of the Americas.


11. The Early Middle Ages and the Romanesque.


12. The Gothic and Late Middle Ages.


13. The Renaissance and Mannerism in Italy.


14. The Renaissance in the North.


15. The Baroque Age.


16. The Eighteenth Century.


17. Romanticism and Realism.


18. The Belle Époque.


19. Chinese and Japanese Civilizations.


20. Russian Civilization.


21. The Age of Anxiety.


22. Modern Africa and Latin America.


23. The Age of Affluence.


24. The Diversity of Contemporary Life.


Glossary.


Picture Credits and Further Information.


Literature Credits.


Index.

Introduction to the Humanities  (Art)

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  Arts and Culture, Combined Volume, 3/E
  Benton & DiYanni
  ©2008 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 704 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0132283913 | ISBN-13: 9780132283915
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  For one or two semester/quarter courses on Introduction to the Humanities or Cultural Studies.

   

  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? 

   

   

  The Combined Volume does not contain literature selections.

Companion Website - Benton
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©1999 | Prentice Hall | On-line Supplement | Instock
ISBN-10: 0138636060 | ISBN-13: 9780138636067
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Companion Website - Benton
Benton
©1999 | Prentice Hall | On-line Supplement | Instock
ISBN-10: 0138636060 | ISBN-13: 9780138636067
URL:  http://www.prenhall.com/benton

Companion Website - Benton
Benton
©1999 | Prentice Hall | On-line Supplement | Instock
ISBN-10: 0138636060 | ISBN-13: 9780138636067
URL:  http://www.prenhall.com/benton

Companion Website - Benton
Benton
©1999 | Prentice Hall | On-line Supplement | Instock
ISBN-10: 0138636060 | ISBN-13: 9780138636067
URL:  http://www.prenhall.com/benton

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