search for books and compare prices
Tables of Contents for Culture and Values
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
v
The Arts: An Introduction
xiii
The Beginnings of Civilization
1
30
The Earliest People and Their Art
3
17
Ancient Egypt
6
7
The Cultures of Mesopotamia
13
7
Aegean Culture in the Bronze Age
20
7
Cycladic Art
20
1
The Excavation of Knossos
21
4
Schliemann and the Discovery of Mycenae
25
2
Summary
27
4
Pronunciation Guide
28
1
Exercises
29
1
Further Reading
29
2
Early Greece
31
26
Homer and the Heroic Age
33
5
Art and Society in Early Greece
38
1
Geometric Art
38
1
The Age of Colonization
39
2
The Visual Arts at Corinth and Athens
41
1
The Beginnings of Greek Sculpture
42
5
Sculpture and Painting in the Archaic Period
43
4
Architecture: The Doric and Ionic Orders
47
1
Music and Dance in Early Greece
48
3
Early Greek Literature and Philosophy
51
2
Lyric Poetry
51
2
The First Philosophers: The Presocratics
53
1
Herodotus, The First Greek Historian
53
1
Summary
53
4
Pronunciation Guide
54
1
Exercises
54
1
Further Reading
54
3
Classical Greece and the Hellenistic Period
57
32
The Classical Ideal
59
3
Drama and Philosophy in Classical Greece
62
7
The Drama Festivals of Dionysus
62
1
The Athenian Tragic Dramatists
63
3
Aristophanes and Greek Comedy
66
1
Philosophy in the Late Classical Period
67
2
Greek Music in the Classical Period
69
1
The Visual Arts in Classical Greece
70
8
Sculpture and Vase Painting in the Fifth Century B.C.
70
3
Architecture in the Fifth Century B.C.
73
5
The Visual Arts in the Fourth Century B.C.
78
3
The Hellenistic Period
81
5
Summary
86
1
Exercises
87
1
Pronunciation Guide
87
1
Further Reading
87
2
The Roman Legacy
89
36
The Importance of Rome
91
1
The Etruscans and Their Art
92
3
Republican Rome (509--31 B.C.)
95
5
Literary Developments during the Republic
96
1
Roman Philosophy and Law
97
2
Republican Art and Architecture
99
1
Imperial Rome (31 B.C.--A.D. 476)
100
16
Augustan Literature: Vergil
101
3
Augustan Sculpture
104
2
The Evidence of Pompeii
106
5
Roman Imperial Architecture
111
3
Rome as the Object of Satire
114
2
The End of the Roman Empire
116
2
Late Roman Art and Architecture
116
2
Summary
118
2
Pronunciation Guide
120
1
Exercises
120
1
Further Reading
120
1
Interlude: Antony and Cleopatra
121
4
Jerusalem and Early Christianity
125
18
Judaism and Early Christianity
127
13
The Hebrew Bible and Its Message
128
3
The Beginnings of Christianity
131
4
Frescoes (Wall Paintings Done on Fresh Plaster)
135
2
Glass and Sculpture
137
1
Inscriptions
137
3
Summary
140
3
Pronunciation Guide
140
1
Exercises
141
1
Further Reading
141
2
Byzantium and the Rise of Islam
143
27
The Decline of Rome
145
1
Literature and Philosophy
145
2
Augustine of Hippo
145
1
Boethius
146
1
The Ascendancy of Byzantium
147
4
Hagia Sophia: Monument and Symbol
148
3
Ravenna
151
8
Art and Architecture
151
8
Saint Catherine's Monastery at Mount Sinai
159
4
The Persistence of Byzantine Culture
163
2
The Rise of Islam
165
2
The Culture of Islam
165
2
Summary
167
3
Exercises
168
1
Pronunciation Guide
168
1
Further Reading
168
2
Charlemagne and the Rise of Medieval Culture
170
24
Charlemagne as Ruler and Diplomat
173
2
Learning in the Time of Charlemagne
175
1
Benedictine Monasticism
176
2
The Rule of Saint Benedict
177
1
Women and the Monastic Life
178
1
Monasticism and Gregorian Chant
178
2
Liturgical Music and the Rise of Drama
180
1
The Liturgical Trope
180
1
The Quem Quæritis Trope
180
1
The Morality Play: Everyman
181
1
Nonliturgical Drama
181
1
The Legend of Charlemagne: Song of Roland
182
1
The Visual Arts
183
3
The Illuminated Book
183
3
Charlemagne's Palace at Aachen
186
7
The Carolingian Monastery
188
1
The Romanesque Style
188
5
Summary
193
1
Pronunciation Guide
193
1
Exercises
193
1
Further Reading
193
1
High Middle Ages: The Search for Synthesis
194
34
The Significance of Paris
197
1
The Gothic Style
197
12
Suger's Building Program for Saint Denis
197
3
The Mysticism of Light
200
4
The Many Meanings of the Gothic Cathedral
204
4
Music: The School of Notre Dame
208
1
Scholasticism
209
9
The Rise of the Universities
209
5
Francis of Assisi
214
1
Thomas Aquinas
214
4
Dante's Divine Comedy
218
3
Summary
221
7
Exercises
222
1
Pronunciation Guide
222
1
Further Reading
222
2
Interlude: Abelard and Heloise
224
4
The Fourteenth Century: A Time Of Transition
228
28
Calamity, Decay, and Violence
231
2
The Black Death
231
1
The Great Schism
231
1
The Hundred Years' War
232
1
Literature in Italy, England, and France
233
5
Petrarch
233
2
Petrarch's Sonnet 15
235
1
Chaucer
235
2
Christine de Pisan
237
1
Art in Italy
238
7
The Italo-Byzantine Background
238
3
Giotto's Break with the Past
241
4
Painting in Siena
245
1
Art in Northern Europe
246
4
Late Gothic Architecture
250
2
Music: Ars Nova
252
2
Summary
254
2
Pronunciation Guide
255
1
Exercises
255
1
Further Reading
255
1
The Early Renaissance
256
32
Toward the Renaissance
259
1
The First Phase: Masaccio, Ghiberti, and Brunelleschi
259
7
The Medici Era
266
13
Cosimo de'Medici
267
4
Piero de'Medici
271
1
Lorenzo the Magnificent
272
7
The Character of Renaissance Humanism
279
4
Pico della Mirandola
281
1
Printing Technology and the Spread of Humanism
282
1
Women and the Renaissance
283
1
Two Styles of Humanism
283
2
Machiavelli
283
1
Erasmus
284
1
Music in the Fifteenth Century
285
1
Guillaume Dufay
285
1
Music in Medici Florence
286
1
Summary
286
2
Pronunciation Guide
287
1
Exercises
287
1
Further Reading
287
1
The High Renaissance in Italy
288
27
Popes and Patronage
291
10
Raphael
291
2
Michelangelo
293
7
The New Saint Peter's
300
1
The High Renaissance in Venice
301
3
Giorgione
302
1
Titian
302
2
Tintoretto
304
1
Mannerism
304
4
Sofonisba Anguissola
307
1
Music in the Sixteenth Century
308
1
Music at the Papal Court
308
1
Venetian Music
309
1
Contrasting Renaissance Voices
309
3
Castiglione
310
1
Cellini
311
1
Summary
312
3
Pronunciation Guide
312
1
Exercises
312
1
Further Reading
312
3
The Renaissance in The North
315
33
The Reformation
318
7
Causes of the Reformation
320
2
Renaissance Humanism and the Reformation
322
2
Cultural Significance of the Reformation
324
1
Intellectual Developments
325
3
Montaigne's Essays
325
1
The Growth of Science
326
2
The Visual Arts in Northern Europe
328
5
Painting in Germany: Durer, Grunewald, Altdorfer
328
5
Painting in the Netherlands: Bosch and Bruegel
333
7
Art and Architecture in France
336
1
Art in Elizabethan England
337
3
Music of the Northern Renaissance
340
3
Music in France and Germany
340
1
Elizabethan Music
340
3
English Literature: Shakespeare
343
3
Summary
346
2
Pronunciation Guide
347
1
Exercises
347
1
Further Reading
347
1
The Baroque World
348
42
The Counter-Reformation Spirit
351
3
The Visual Arts in the Baroque Period
354
22
Painting in Rome: Caravaggio and the Carracci
354
6
Roman Baroque Sculpture and Architecture: Bernini and Borromini
360
2
Baroque Art in France and Spain
362
8
Baroque Art in Northern Europe
370
6
Baroque Music
376
5
The Birth of Opera
377
1
Baroque Instrumental and Vocal Music: Johann Sebastian Bach
378
3
Philosophy and Science in the Baroque Period
381
4
Galileo
381
2
Descartes
383
1
Hobbes and Locke
384
1
Literature in the Seventeenth Century
385
2
French Baroque Comedy and Tragedy
385
1
The Novel in Spain: Cervantes
385
1
The English Metaphysical Poets
386
1
Milton's Heroic Vision
387
1
Summary
387
3
Pronunciation Guide
389
1
Exercises
389
1
Further Reading
389
1
The Eighteenth Century: From Rococo to Revolution
390
32
Age of Diversity
393
2
The Visual Arts in the Eighteenth Century
395
10
The Rococo Style
395
5
Neoclassical Art
400
5
Classical Music
405
6
The Classical Symphony
406
2
Haydn
408
1
Mozart
408
3
Literature in the Eighteenth Century
411
5
Intellectual Developments
411
1
Pope's Rococo Status
412
1
Swift's Savage Indignation
412
2
Rational Humanism: The Encyclopedists
414
1
Voltaire's Philosophical Cynicism: Candide
415
1
The Late Eighteenth Century: Time of Revolution
416
3
Summary
419
3
Pronunciation Guide
420
1
Exercises
421
1
Further Reading
421
1
The Romantic Era
422
46
The Concerns of Romanticism
425
1
The Intellectual Background
426
3
Music in the Romantic Era
429
10
Beethoven
429
3
Instrumental Music after Beethoven
432
1
The Age of the Virtuosos
433
1
Musical Nationalism
434
1
Opera in Italy: Verdi
434
2
Opera in Germany: Wagner
436
3
Romantic Art
439
9
Painting at the Turn of the Century: Goya
439
2
Painting and Architecture in France: Romantics and Realists
441
6
Painting in Germany and England
447
1
Literature in the Nineteenth Century
448
6
Goethe
448
2
Romantic Poetry
450
1
The Novel
451
3
The Romantic Era in America
454
4
American Literature
454
2
American Painting
456
2
Summary
458
10
Pronunciation Guide
461
1
Exercises
461
1
Further Reading
461
1
Interlude: Frederic Chopin and George Sand
462
6
Toward the Modern Era: 1870--1914
468
34
The Growing Unrest
471
2
New Movements in the Visual Arts
473
17
Impressionism
477
5
Postimpressionism
482
4
Fauvism and Expressionism
486
4
New Styles in Music
490
7
Orchestral Music at the Turn of the Century
490
4
Impressionism in Music
494
1
The Search for a New Musical Language
495
2
New Subjects for Literature
497
2
Psychological Insights in the Novel
497
1
Responses to a Changing Society: The Role of Women
498
1
Summary
499
3
Pronunciation Guide
500
1
Exercises
500
1
Further Reading
501
1
Between the World Wars
502
30
The ``Great War'' and Its Significance
505
1
Literary Modernism
505
2
T. S. Eliot and James Joyce
506
1
Franz Kafka
506
1
Virginia Woolf
506
1
The Revolution in Art: Cubism
507
5
Freud, the Unconscious, and Surrealism
512
5
The Age of Jazz
517
2
George Gershwin
518
1
Duke Ellington
518
1
The Harlem Renaissance
519
1
Ballet: Collaboration in Art
519
7
Art as Escape: Dada
520
1
Art as Protest: Guernica
521
1
Art as Propaganda: Film
522
2
Photography
524
1
Art as Prophecy: From Futurism to Brave New World
525
1
Summary
526
6
Pronunciation Guide
526
1
Exercises
526
1
Further Reading
527
1
Interlude: Virginia and Leonard Woolf
528
4
The Contemporary Contour
532
41
Toward a Global Culture
535
3
Existentialism
536
2
Painting since 1945
538
11
Abstract Expressionism
539
4
The Return to Representation
543
6
Contemporary Sculpture
549
7
Architecture
556
8
Some Trends in Contemporary Literature
564
1
A Note on the Postmodern
565
1
Music since 1945
565
4
Avant-Garde Developments
565
2
The New Minimalists
567
1
Traditional Approaches to Modern Music
568
1
Popular Music
568
1
Summary
569
4
Pronunciation Guide
570
1
Exercises
570
1
Further Reading
570
3
Glossary
573
8
Index
581
20
Photographic Credits
601
4
Literary Acknowledgments
605