Perspectives on Humanity in the Fine Arts (First Edition)
Perspectives on Humanity in the Fine Arts (First Edition)

Author: Gary Towne

Publisher: Cognella Academic Publishing

Published: 2018-11-29

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781516546558

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Perspectives on Humanity in the Fine Arts takes a historical approach to western art and helps readers envision times and places by studying their unique forms of artistic expression. Students first learn about the elemental principles of the four basic arts: visual art, music, theater, and dance, as expressions of the vibrancy of different cultural environments. They then learn to understand the arts in their geographical and historical contexts, as the text immerses the student in the fabric of western cultural history through artistic experience. Within the historical domain of each era, a rich variety of visual and performing arts examples brings the period and its culture to life. The arts offer a way for the student to understand each culture's ideals, aspirations, and search for perfection. By studying a diverse grouping of arts within a specific geographical and historical niche, the student can experience each culture as a contemporary participant might. Areas covered include prehistory, the ancient Near East and Egypt, classical Greece and Rome, the Byzantine Empire, Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, baroque, neoclassical, romantic and twentieth-century art forms, and others. Students come to understand the position and impact of art as expressions of a culture's soul in the development of western history. Rooted in this conception of the collective arts as expressions of unique cultures, Perspectives on Humanity in the Fine Arts is intended for survey courses that cover the fine arts for non-majors.

Introduction to Fine Arts (First Edition)
Introduction to Fine Arts (First Edition)

Author: Gary S. Towne

Publisher: Cognella Academic Publishing

Published: 2017-06-23

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781516511105

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Perspectives on Humanity in the Fine Arts takes a historical approach to western art and helps readers envision times and places by studying their unique forms of artistic expression. Students first learn about the elemental principles of the four basic arts: visual art, music, theater, and dance, as expressions of the vibrancy of different cultural environments. They then learn to understand the arts in their geographical and historical contexts, as the text immerses the student in the fabric of western cultural history through artistic experience. Within the historical domain of each era, a rich variety of visual and performing arts examples brings the period and its culture to life. The arts offer a way for the student to understand each culture's ideals, aspirations, and search for perfection. By studying a diverse grouping of arts within a specific geographical and historical niche, the student can experience each culture as a contemporary participant might. Areas covered include prehistory, the ancient Near East and Egypt, classical Greece and Rome, the Byzantine Empire, Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, baroque, neoclassical, romantic and twentieth-century art forms, and others. Students come to understand the position and impact of art as expressions of a culture's soul in the development of western history. Rooted in this conception of the collective arts as expressions of unique cultures, Perspectives on Humanity in the Fine Arts is intended for survey courses that cover the fine arts for non-majors.

The Art of Being Human
The Art of Being Human

Author: Richard Janaro

Publisher: Longman Publishing Group

Published: 2005-07

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780321277633

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The Art of Being Human, Eighth Edition,introduces students to the ways in which the humanities can broaden their perspectives, enhance their ability to think critically, and enrich their lives. Ideal for the one-semester humanities course, this well-respected book has been lauded for its scope, accessibility, and writing style. Featuring a unique topical organization, Part I examines ways of responding to the humanities, their mythic origins, and important struggles in the arts. Part II explores the individual genres of literature, art, music, theater, song and dance, and cinema. Part III looks at provocative themes in the humanities: religion, morality, happiness, love, life and death, and freedom.

_DUÑ_DE: CALABAR JOURNAL OF THE HUMANITIES
_DUÑ_DE: CALABAR JOURNAL OF THE HUMANITIES

Author: FACULTY OF ARTS, UNIVERSITY OF CALABAR, NIGERIA

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2017-05-12

Total Pages: 438

ISBN-13: 1365957950

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ŃDUÑỌDE: CALABAR JOURNAL OF THE HUMANITIES is a peer-reviewed and refereed international journal of the Faculty of Arts, University of Calabar. It is a multidisciplinary Journal published biannually (January and July). It is inviting original research papers focusing on theories, trends, methods and applications that reflect the interdisciplinary perspectives of the human and social sciences. It challenges, provokes, and excites thinking, ideas, debates and discussions on potential topics of contemporary relevance in Archaeology, Anthropology, Communication/Media Studies, Cultural Studies, English Studies, Fine and Applied Arts, History, International Studies, Law, Leisure Studies, Linguistics, Literary Studies, Modern Languages (French, Spanish, German), Philosophy, Pragmatics, Religious Studies, Sociology, Sports, Theatre Arts, Tourism and Translation Studies.

Art Without Borders
Art Without Borders

Author: Ben-Ami Scharfstein

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2009-08-01

Total Pages: 558

ISBN-13: 0226736113

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People all over the world make art and take pleasure in it, and they have done so for millennia. But acknowledging that art is a universal part of human experience leads us to some big questions: Why does it exist? Why do we enjoy it? And how do the world’s different art traditions relate to art and to each other? Art Without Borders is an extraordinary exploration of those questions, a profound and personal meditation on the human hunger for art and a dazzling synthesis of the whole range of inquiry into its significance. Esteemed thinker Ben-Ami Scharfstein’s encyclopedic erudition is here brought to bear on the full breadth of the world of art. He draws on neuroscience and psychology to understand the way we both perceive and conceive of art, including its resistance to verbal exposition. Through examples of work by Indian, Chinese, European, African, and Australianartists, Art Without Borders probes the distinction between accepting a tradition and defying it through innovation, which leads to a consideration of the notion of artistic genius. Continuing in this comparative vein, Scharfstein examines the mutual influence of European and non-European artists. Then, through a comprehensive evaluation of the world’s major art cultures, he shows how all of these individual traditions are gradually, but haltingly, conjoining into a single current of universal art. Finally, he concludes by looking at the ways empathy and intuition can allow members of one culture to appreciate the art of another. Lucid, learned, and incomparably rich in thought and detail, Art Without Borders is a monumental accomplishment, on par with the artistic achievements Scharfstein writes about so lovingly in its pages.

Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human
Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1996-11-07

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 9780521567046

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This remarkable collection of almost 1,400 aphorisms was originally published in three instalments. The first (now Volume I) appeared in 1878, just before Nietzsche abandoned academic life, with a first supplement entitled The Assorted Opinions and Maxims following in 1879, and a second entitled The Wanderer and his Shadow a year later. In 1886 Nietzsche republished them together in a two-volume edition, with new prefaces to each volume. Both volumes are presented here in R. J. Hollingdale's distinguished translation (originally published in the series Cambridge Texts in German Philosophy) with a new introduction by Richard Schacht. In this wide-ranging work Nietzsche first employed his celebrated aphoristic style, so perfectly suited to his iconoclastic, penetrating and multi-faceted thought. Many themes of his later work make their initial appearance here, expressed with unforgettable liveliness and subtlety. Human, All Too Human well deserves its subtitle 'A Book for Free Spirits', and its original dedication to Voltaire, whose project of radical enlightenment here found a new champion.

Manhood of Humanity
Manhood of Humanity

Author: Alfred Korzybski

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-09-13

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 9781528354424

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Manhood of Humanity: The Science and Art of Human Engineering was written by the famous Polish-American philosopher and scientist, Alfred Korzybski. Best known for his work developing the theory of "general semantics," Korzybski dedicated his life to mapping out the operations performed by the human brain. In this book, Korzybski presents an engaging and thought provoking look at his philosophical views of humanity and the human condition. Korzybski passed away before the publication of this edition of the book so the editor decided to dedicate the first chapter to him, and provides a biography of the author. The book then delves into Korzybski's philosophy, discussing the root of humanity and how it is fostered in children at a very young age. Korzybski explores how wealth, capitalism, elements of power, and the ideas of "survival of the fittest" affect humanity as we know it. The book also contains multiple appendices that include further information on the topics explored within the text for readers to enjoy at their leisure. Korzybski's primary goal with the text is to imbue readers with a passion for the topic, to enlighten them and provoke them to action-to bring back humanity as we knew it prior to greed and feelings of inherent superiority. Alfred Korzybski's book Manhood of Humanity: The Science and Art of Human Engineering is a wonderful exploration of what it means to be human. This is an entertaining and enlightening book that represents that deepest thoughts and values of the author. Korzybski's plea to the reader who enjoys this text is to enact change in society when possible-to help their fellow man return to a kinder and gentler state. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Herder
Herder

Author: John K. Noyes

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2015-11-26

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 1442622989

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Among his generation of intellectuals, the eighteenth-century German philosopher Johann Gottfried Herder is recognized both for his innovative philosophy of language and history and for his passionate criticism of racism, colonialism, and imperialism. A student of Immanuel Kant, Herder challenged the idea that anyone – even the philosophers of the Enlightenment – could have a monopoly on truth. In Herder: Aesthetics against Imperialism, John K. Noyes plumbs the connections between Herder’s anti-imperialism, often acknowledged but rarely explored in depth, and his epistemological investigations. Noyes argues that Herder’s anti-rationalist epistemology, his rejection of universal conceptions of truth, knowledge, and justice, constitutes the first attempt to establish not just a moral but an epistemological foundation for anti-imperialism. Engaging with the work of postcolonial theorists such Dipesh Chakrabarty and Gayatri Spivak, this book is a valuable reassessment of Enlightenment anti-imperialism that demonstrates Herder’s continuing relevance to postcolonial studies today.