1. Humanities and the 21 st Century Humanities 1301 Deanne Schlanger and Cynthia Green

2. Humanities Defined “the cumulative artistic and intellectual achievements of humanity” A critical process for understanding and communicating these achievements to others The creativity embodied in all of us

3. Esthetic Pleasure “One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.” --Goethe Les Tres Riches Heures – September Fr. 15 th c.

4. Intellectual Stimulation To see the World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour. --William Blake (1757-1827) The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away… --William Wordsworth (1770-1850) Blake’s Ancient of Days - 1794

5. A Sense of Time and Place Reliving the “treasures of human expression” Re-examining the “canon” – the traditional list of “great” literature Understanding the past in order to envision the future Michelangelo’s Delphyes Sylphide

6. Understanding Our Humanity Extending our existence through ideas, paintings, music, stage, literature Intertwine with the lifetimes of others through a shared consciousness “We need to stop thinking about how we can fit into the world as it is but how we can transform it” – Gloria Steinem

7. Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men Adam and Eve – 1507 (Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid)

8. Humanist – one who strives with heart and mind to be open to life… Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519) Mona Lisa – 1503-1506 (Musee du Louvre, Paris)

9. Contemplating Our Mortality Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825) Marat Assassinated – 1793 (Musees Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique)

10. “You cannot step twice into the same river” – Heraclitus (540 BC) Purpose and Meaning of Life Sir Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898) The Wheel of Fortune – 1883 (Musee d’Orsay)

11. Exploring the Depths of the Soul “What am I in the eyes of most people? A nonentity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person— somebody who has no position in society and never will have, in short, the lowest of the low. All right then—even if that were absolutely true, then I should like to show by my work what such an eccentric, such a nobody, has in his heart.” --Vincent Van Gogh The Starry Night – 1889 (Van Gogh) The Museum of Modern Art, New York

12. Man’s inhumanity to man…and the world around him The fate of the animals – 1913 (Kunstmuseum, Basle) Franz Marc – killed at Verdun, France, 1916

13. Re-Visioning the World Around Us Pearblossom Highway – 1986 David Hockney (1937-)