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This text is richly illustrated, beautifully designed and engaging. It offers an exploration of Western and World 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. In 24 chapters, the Combined Volume 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 - Added Cultural Impact boxes–On cultural legacy.

  • Shows students how past achievements influenced later cultures and how they still exist in the contemporary world.

• NEW - Expanded non-Western coverage.

  • Coverage of India, China, Japan, and Africa has been revised and expanded.

• NEW - Expanded discussion of music–In many chapters.

• NEW - Chapter-opening two page spread–A full-page graphic timeline and a compelling photograph.

  • Presents students with major historical events, literature and philosophy, art, architecture, and music.

• NEW - Improved maps, timelines, and illustrations.

  • Provides students with a wealth of quality visual pedagogical aids.

• NEW - Updated and revised content throughout.

  • Emphasizes important content, and corrects any minor errors.

• Chronologically organized content.

  • Covers prehistory to the present.

• A global perspective–Features China, India, Japan, Mesoamerica, Africa, the Islamic world, and the West.

  • Enhances global and intercultural understanding.

• A “Starter Kit” for humanities students.

  • Provides information for understanding the arts: painting, sculpture, and architecture–as well as music, literature, theatre and dance.

• Connections boxes.

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

• Cross Currents boxes.

  • 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 boxes.

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

• Maps.

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

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

  • Enhances text presentation and student understanding of it.

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

• "Music for the Humanities"–Includes selections that represent the breadth of the Western musical tradition and a hint of traditions beyond the West. Many are short excerpts from longer works. Please visit www.prenhall.com/bishop for links to the full compositions and listening guides for every selection.

1.Traditional Chinese, "Han Ya Xi Shui."

 

2. Traditional Islamic, Call to Prayer (Adhan). Courtesy of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings.

 

3. Ewe Atsiagbekor (Ghanaian Drumming). Courtesy of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings.

 

4. Hildegard of Bingen, "0 Viridissima Virga." Oxford Camerata, Jeremy Summerly conducting.

 

5. Bernart de Ventadorn, Quan vei la lauzeta mover. Unicorn Ensemble, Michel Posch conducting.

6. Weelkes, "As Vesta Was," from The Triumphes of Oriana, collected by Thomas Morley. Oxford Camerata, Jeremy Summerly conducting.

7. Palestrina, "Kyrie," from Pope Marcellus Mass. Oxford Camerata, Jeremy Summerly conducting.

 

8. Bach, Brandenberg Concerto No. 2 in F Major: Allegro Assai. Cologne Chamber Orchestra, Helmut Muller-Bruhl conducting.

 

9. Handel, "Hallelujahl" from Messiah. Scholars Baroque Ensemble.

 

10. Purcell, "Dido's Lament," from Dido and Aeneas, Act 1. Scholars Baroque Ensemble.

 

11. Haydn, Symphony No. 94 in G Major, "Surprise": Andante. Capella Istropolitana.

 

12. Mozart, "Cinque ...dieci," Marriage of Figaro, Act 1, Scene 1. Hungarian State Opera .Orchestra, Pier Giorgio Morandi conducting.

 

13. Mozart, Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, K 550: Motto Allegro. Capella Istropolitana, Barry Wordsworth conducting.

 

14. Beethoven, Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67: Allegro con Brio.

 

15. Berlioz, Symphonie Fantastique, Op. 14: Dies irae, Ronde du sabbat. San Diego Symphony Orchestra, Yoav Talmi conducting.

 

16. Chopin, "Revolutionary" Etude In C Minor, Op.10. Idil Biret, piano.

 

17. Schubert, "Der Erlkonig," tr. Liszt. Antii Siirala, piano.

 

18. Wagner, "Bridal Chorus" from Lohengrin. Slovak Philharmonic Chorus, Slovak Radio Orchestra, Johannes Wildner conducting.

 

19. Debussy, "Clair de Lune." Slovak Radio Orchestra, Keith Clark, conducting.

 

20.Schoenberg, "Etwas Rasch," from Six Little Piano Pieces, Op. 19. Peter Hill, Piano.

 

21. Stravinsky, "Dance of Youths and Maidens," from Rite of Spring. Belgian Radio and Television Philharmonic Orchestra, Alexander Rabhari, conducting.

 

22. Gershwin, "Bess, You is My Woman Now," from Porgy And Bess. Paul Robeson, Eva Jessye Choir, Alexander Smallens conducting.

 

23. W.C. Handy, "St. Louis Blues." Louis Armstrong Orchestra, Louis Armstrong, cornet.

 

24. Bernstein, "Mambo," from West Side Story. Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Kenneth Schermerhorn conducting.

 

25. Glass, Akhnaten: Dance (Act II, Scene 3). Ulster Orchestra, Takuo Yuasa conducting.

 

• Added Cultural Impact boxes–On cultural legacy.

  • Shows students how past achievements influenced later cultures and how they still exist in the contemporary world.

• Expanded non-Western coverage.

  • Coverage of India, China, Japan, and Africa has been revised and expanded.

• Expanded discussion of music–In many chapters.

• Chapter-opening two page spread–A full-page graphic timeline and a compelling photograph.

  • Presents students with major historical events, literature and philosophy, art, architecture, and music.

• Improved maps, timelines, and illustrations.

  • Provides students with a wealth of quality visual pedagogical aids.

• Updated and revised content throughout.

  • Emphasizes important content, and corrects any minor errors.

 1. The Dawn of Culture.


 2. Ancient Egypt.


 3. Aegean Culture and Early Greece.


 4. Classical and Hellenistic Greece.


 5. Roman Civilization.


 6. Judaism, Early Christianity, and Byzantine Civilization.


 7. Islamic Civilization.


 8. Indian Civilization.


 9. Early Chinese & Japanese Civilizations.


10. Early Civilizations of the Americas & Africa.


11. Early Middle Ages and the Romanesque.


12. Gothic and Late Middle Ages.


13. The Renaissance and Mannerism in Italy.


14. The Renaissance in Northern Europe.


15. The Baroque Age.


16. The Eighteenth Century.


17. Romanticism and Realism.


18. The Belle Époque: Impressionism and post-Impressionism.


19. Chinese Civilization After the Thirteenth Century.


20. Japanese Civilization After the Fifteenth Century.


21. Age of Anxiety: World War I and After.


22. Modern Africa and Latin America.


23. Age of Affluence: World War II and After.


24. Diversity in Contemporary Life.


Glossary.


Picture Credits and Further Information.


Literature Credits.


Index.

Introduction to Humanities  (Literature & Creative Writing)
Introduction to the Humanities  (Art)
Introduction to Humanities  (Humanities)

Arts and Culture, Second Edition, is richly illustrated, beautifully designed, and engaging to read. Students move chronologically from prehistoric culture through the twenty-first century to gain insight into the achievements and ideas in painting, sculpture, architecture, literature, philosophy, religion, and music.

• New Cultural Impact boxes at the end of each chapter that explain the influence of one culture or civilization on later ones, showing students how the broad strands explored in the chapter continue to impact today's world.
• Expanded and revised coverage of India, Africa, China, Japan, and the Americas.
• New Music for the Humanities CD included free with each copy of the text.

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