© 2008 McGraw-Hill Higher Education. All rights reserved. 1 Part I Fundamentals 1 – The Humanities: An Introduction 2 – What is a Work of Art? 3 – Being a Critic of the Arts

© 2008 McGraw-Hill Higher Education. All rights reserved. 2 1 – The Humanities: An Introduction The Humanities: A Study of Values Taste Responses To Art –Structure and Artistic Form –Perception Abstract Ideas and Concrete Images

© 2008 McGraw-Hill Higher Education. All rights reserved. 3 2 – What Is A Work Of Art? Identifying Art Conceptually Identifying Art Perceptually Artistic Form Participation Participation And Artistic Form Content Subject Matter Subject Matter and Artistic Form Participation, Artistic Form, And Content –Artistic Form: Examples –Subject Matter and Content

© 2008 McGraw-Hill Higher Education. All rights reserved. 4 3 – Being A Critic Of The Arts You Are Already an Art Critic Participation and The Critic Kinds of Criticism –Descriptive Criticism –Detail, Regional, and Structural Relationships –Interpretive Criticism –Evaluative Criticism

© 2008 McGraw-Hill Higher Education. All rights reserved. 5 Part II The Arts 4 – Painting 5 – Sculpture 6 – Architecture 7 – Drama 8 – Literature 9 – Music 10 – Dance 11 – Film 12 – Television and Video Art 13 – Photography

© 2008 McGraw-Hill Higher Education. All rights reserved. 6 4 – Painting Your Visual Powers The Media of Painting –Tempera –Fresco –Oil –Water Color –Acrylic –Other Media –Pigments and Binders Elements of Painting –Line –Color –Texture –Composition

© 2008 McGraw-Hill Higher Education. All rights reserved. 7 4 – Painting (cont’d) The Clarity of Painting The “All-at-Onceness” of Painting Abstract Painting Intensity and Restfulness Representational Painting Comparison of Five Impressionist Paintings

© 2008 McGraw-Hill Higher Education. All rights reserved. 8 4 – Painting (cont’d) Determining the Subject Matter of a Painting Interpretation of the Self –Frida Kahlo –Romaine Brooks –Rembrandt van Rijn Some Painting Styles of the Twentieth Century

© 2008 McGraw-Hill Higher Education. All rights reserved. 9 5 – Sculpture Sculpture and Touch Sculpture And Density Sensory Interconnections Sculpture And Painting Compared Sunken-Relief Sculpture Low-Relief Sculpture High-Relief Sculpture Sculpture In The Round

© 2008 McGraw-Hill Higher Education. All rights reserved – Sculpture (cont’d) Sensory Space Sculpture and The Human Body Sculpture In The Round And The Human Body Techniques of Sculpture Contemporary Sculpture Truth To Materials Space Sculpture Protest Against Technology Accommodation with Technology Machine Sculpture Earth Sculpture Sculpture In Public Places

© 2008 McGraw-Hill Higher Education. All rights reserved – Architecture Centered Space Space and Architecture Chartres Living Space

© 2008 McGraw-Hill Higher Education. All rights reserved – Architecture Four Necessities of Architecture –Technical Requirements of Architecture – Functional Requirements Of Architecture –Spatial Requirements of Architecture –Revelatory Requirements of Architecture

© 2008 McGraw-Hill Higher Education. All rights reserved – Architecture (cont’d) Earth-Rooted Architecture –Site –Gravity –Raw Materials –Centrality Sky-Oriented Architecture –Axis Mundi –Defiance of Gravity –Integration of Light

© 2008 McGraw-Hill Higher Education. All rights reserved – Architecture (cont’d) Earth-Resting Architecture Earth Dominating Architecture Combinations of Types Two Contemporary Architects: Zaha Hadid and Santiago Calatrava Urban Planning

© 2008 McGraw-Hill Higher Education. All rights reserved – Literature Spoken Language and Literature Literary Structures –The Narrative and The Narrator –The Episodic Narrative –The Organic Narrative –The Quest Narrative –The Lyric

© 2008 McGraw-Hill Higher Education. All rights reserved – Literature Literary Details –Image –Metaphor –Symbol –Irony –Diction

© 2008 McGraw-Hill Higher Education. All rights reserved – Drama Aristotle and The Elements of Drama –Dialogue and Soliloquy Imitation and Realism An Alternative Theory of Tragedy Archetypal Patterns

© 2008 McGraw-Hill Higher Education. All rights reserved – Drama Genres Of Drama –The Tragic Stage –Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet Comedy: Old and New Tragicomedy: The Mixed Genre A Play for Study: The Bear Musical Comedy Modern Drama

© 2008 McGraw-Hill Higher Education. All rights reserved – Music Hearing and Listening The Elements of Music –Tone –Consonance –Dissonance –Rhythm –Tempo –Melodic Material: Melody, Theme, and Motive –Counterpoint –Harmony –Dynamics –Contrast

© 2008 McGraw-Hill Higher Education. All rights reserved – Music (cont’d) The Subject Matter of Music –Feelings Two Theories: Formalism and Expressionism Sound Tonal Center

© 2008 McGraw-Hill Higher Education. All rights reserved – Music (cont’d) Musical Structures –Theme and Variations –Rondo –Fugue –Sonata Form –Fantasia –The Symphony Beethoven’s Symphony in E Major, No. 3, Eroica Blues and Popular Music

© 2008 McGraw-Hill Higher Education. All rights reserved – Dance Subject Matter of Dance Form Dance and Ritual –Indian Dance –The Zuni Rain Dance –Social Dance –The Court Dance

© 2008 McGraw-Hill Higher Education. All rights reserved – Dance Ballet –Swan Lake Modern Dance –Alvin Ailey’s Revelations –Martha Graham –Pilobolus and Momix Dance Companies –Mark Morris Dance Group –Twyla Tharp Popular Dance

© 2008 McGraw-Hill Higher Education. All rights reserved – Film The Subject Matter Of Film Directing and Editing The Participative Experience and Film The Film Image Camera Point of View Audience Response To Film Sound Image and Action Film Structure Filmic Meanings The Context of Film History

© 2008 McGraw-Hill Higher Education. All rights reserved – Film (cont’d) Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather –The Narrative Structure of The Godfather, Parts I and II –Coppola’s Images –Coppola’s Use of Sound –The Power of The Godfather A Classic Film: Casablanca Experimentation

© 2008 McGraw-Hill Higher Education. All rights reserved – Television and Video Art The Evolution of Television The Subject Matter of Television and Video Art Commercial Television –The Television Series –The Structure of the Self-Contained Episode –The Television Serial Video Art

© 2008 McGraw-Hill Higher Education. All rights reserved – Photography Photography and Painting Photography and Painting: The Pictorialists Straight Photography –Stieglitz: Pioneer of Straight Photography – The F/64 Group

© 2008 McGraw-Hill Higher Education. All rights reserved – Photography (cont’d) The Documentarists The Modern Eye Color Photography

© 2008 McGraw-Hill Higher Education. All rights reserved. 29 Part III Interrelationships 14 – The Arts 15 – Is it Art or Something Like It? 16 – The Other Humanities

© 2008 McGraw-Hill Higher Education. All rights reserved – The Interrelationships of the Arts Appropriation Synthesis Interpretation –Film Interprets Literature: Howards End –Music Interprets Drama: The Marriage of Figaro –Poetry Interprets Painting: The Starry Night –Sculpture Interprets Poetry: Apollo and Daphne –Painting Interprets Dance And Music: The Dance and Music

© 2008 McGraw-Hill Higher Education. All rights reserved – Is It Art or Something Like It? Art and Artlike Illustration –Realism –Folk Art –Popular Art –Propaganda –Kitsch Decoration Design Idea Art –Dada –Duchampism –Conceptual Art Performance Art Shock Art Virtual Art

© 2008 McGraw-Hill Higher Education. All rights reserved – The Interrelationships of the Humanities The Humanities and The Sciences The Arts and The Other Humanities –Perceiving and Thinking Values The Arts and History The Arts and Philosophy The Arts and Theology