Humanities through the Arts
by Lee A. Jacobus, F. David Martin
11th Edition
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education
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Book Details
| Print ISBN | 9781264069620 |
| eText ISBN | 9781264360215 |
| Publisher | McGraw-Hill Higher Education |
| Publishing Year | 2023 |
| Edition | 11th Edition |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 448 |
The textbook Humanities through the Arts, 11th Edition, by Lee A. Jacobus and F. David Martin, explores the ways human values manifest across major artistic media. Designed for college and university students, the text builds early conceptual foundations before guiding readers through specific creative disciplines.
The narrative scope addresses a broad array of artistic traditions. Core topics include painting, sculpture, architecture, and photography, as well as performance and temporal mediums such as literature, theater, music, dance, cinema, and television and video art. Students evaluate these mediums to understand artistic choices and cultural meaning.
The material is arranged into three overarching sections: Fundamentals, The Arts, and Interrelationships. Published by McGraw-Hill Higher Education across 448 pages in its print edition (ISBN 9781264069620), the text offers instructors in introductory humanities courses a grounded model for student analysis and critical discussion.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: The Humanities: An Introduction
- • The Humanities: A Study of Values
- • Art, Commerce, and Taste
- • Responses to Art
- • EXPERIENCING: The Scream
- • Structure and Artistic Form
- • Perception
- • Abstract Ideas and Concrete Images
- • Summary
Chapter 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
- • EXPERIENCING: Interpretations of the Female Nude
- • Further Thoughts on Artistic Form
- • Summary
Chapter 3: Being a Critic of the Arts
- • Criticism as an Act of Choice
- • Participation and Criticism
- • Three Kinds of Criticism
- • Descriptive Criticism
- • Interpretive Criticism
- • Evaluative Criticism
- • EXPERIENCING: Washington Crossing the Delaware
- • Summary
Chapter 4: Painting
- • Our Visual Powers
- • The Media of Painting
- • Tempera
- • Fresco
- • Oil
- • Watercolor
- • Acrylic
- • Ink and Mixed Media
- • Elements of Painting
- • Line
- • Color
- • Texture
- • Composition
- • The Clarity of Painting
- • The “All-at-Onceness” of Painting
- • Abstract Painting
- • Intensity and Restfulness in Abstract Painting
- • Representing the Self: Three Self-Portraits
- • Rembrandt
- • Frida Kahlo
- • Vincent Van Gogh
- • Four Impressionist Paintings
- • FOCUS ON: The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
- • Masterpieces
- • EXPERIENCING: The Denial of Peter
- • Summary
Chapter 5: Sculpture
- • Sensory Interconnections
- • Abstract Sculpture
- • Techniques of Sculpture
- • Sunken-Relief Sculpture
- • Low-Relief Sculpture
- • High-Relief Sculpture
- • Sculpture in the Round
- • Sculpture and Architecture
- • Perspective: Sensory Space
- • Sculpture and the Human Body
- • Sculpture Ancient and Modern
- • EXPERIENCING: Sculpture and Physical Size
- • Truth to Materials
- • EXPERIENCING: The Burghers of Calais
- • Social Protest
- • Constructivist Sculpture
- • Kinetic Sculpture
- • Earth Sculpture
- • FOCUS ON: African Sculpture
- • Contemporary Multi-Media Sculpture
- • Sculpture in Public Places
- • Summary
Chapter 6: Architecture
- • Architectural Space
- • The Shepherds of Space
- • Chartres
- • Four Necessities of Architecture
- • Technical Requirements of Architecture
- • Functional Requirements of Architecture
- • Spatial Requirements of Architecture
- • Revelatory Requirements of Architecture
- • Earth-Rooted Architecture
- • Site
- • Gravity
- • Raw Materials
- • Centrality
- • Sky-Oriented Architecture
- • Defiance of Gravity
- • Integration of Light
- • Earth-Resting Architecture
- • Earth-Dominating Architecture
- • Three Modern Art Centers
- • The Pompidou Center
- • The Weisman Art Museum
- • Changsha Meixihu International Culture and Arts Center
- • EXPERIENCING: The Taj Mahal
- • Three Modern High-Rise Skyscrapers
- • FOCUS ON: The Alhambra
- • EXPERIENCING: Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
- • Urban Planning
- • Summary
Chapter 7: Literature
- • Spoken Language and Literature
- • Literary Structures
- • The Narrative and the Narrator
- • The Episodic Narrative
- • The Organic Narrative
- • The Quest Narrative
- • The Lyric
- • EXPERIENCING: “La Belle Dame Sans Merci”
- • Literary Details
- • Image
- • Metaphor
- • Symbol
- • Irony
- • Diction
- • FOCUS ON: The Graphic Narrative March by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell
- • Summary
Chapter 8: Theater
- • Aristotle and the Elements of Drama
- • Dialogue and Soliloquy
- • Archetypal Patterns
- • Genres of Drama: Tragedy
- • The Tragic Stage
- • Stage Scenery and Costumes
- • Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet
- • Comedy: Old and New
- • Tragicomedy: The Mixed Genre
- • A Play for Study: The Gaol Gate
- • EXPERIENCING: The Gaol Gate
- • FOCUS ON: Musical Theater: Hamilton
- • Experimental Drama
- • EXPERIENCING: August Wilson’s Fences
- • Summary
Chapter 9: Music
- • The Subject Matter of Music
- • Feelings and Emotions
- • EXPERIENCING: Chopin’s Prelude 7 in A Major
- • Sound
- • The Elements of Music
- • Tone
- • Consonance
- • Dissonance
- • Rhythm
- • Tempo
- • Melodic Material: Melody, Theme, and Motive
- • Counterpoint
- • Harmony
- • Dynamics
- • Contrast
- • Tonal Center
- • Two Theories: Formalism and Expressionism
- • Musical Structures
- • Theme and Variations
- • Rondo
- • Fugue
- • Sonata Form
- • Symphony
- • FOCUS ON: Beethoven’s Symphony in E♭ Major, No. 3, Eroica
- • Blues and Jazz: Popular American Music
- • EXPERIENCING: Rhapsody in Blue by George Gershwin
- • Rock and Roll and Hip-Hop
- • Music of India, China, and Africa
- • Music of India
- • Music of China
- • Traditional Music of Africa
- • Summary
Chapter 10: Dance
- • Subject Matter of Dance
- • EXPERIENCING: Feeling and Dance
- • Form
- • Dance and Ritual
- • Social Dance
- • The Court Dance
- • Ballet
- • Swan Lake
- • Modern Dance
- • EXPERIENCING: One Masterpiece: Alvin Ailey’s Revelations
- • Martha Graham
- • Batsheva Dance Company
- • Pilobolus and Momix Dance Companies
- • Mark Morris Dance Group
- • Pam Tanowitz
- • FOCUS ON: Theater Dance
- • Popular Dance
- • Hip-Hop Dancing
- • Jookin
- • Ballroom Dancing
- • Tap Dancing
- • Summary
Chapter 11: Photography
- • Photography and Painting
- • EXPERIENCING: Photography and Art
- • The Pictorialists
- • Straight Photography
- • The f/64 Group
- • The Documentarists
- • EXPERIENCING: One Masterpiece: Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother
- • Selfies
- • The Modern Eye
- • FOCUS ON: Staged Photography
- • Summary
Chapter 12: Cinema
- • The Subject Matter of Film
- • The Context of Film History
- • Directing and Editing
- • The Film Image
- • EXPERIENCING: Still Frames and Photography
- • Camera Point of View
- • Violence and Film
- • Sound
- • Image and Action
- • Cinematic Structure
- • Cinematic Details
- • Two Great Films: The Godfather and Casablanca
- • The Narrative Structure of The Godfather Films
- • Coppola’s Images
- • Coppola’s Use of Sound
- • The Power of The Godfather
- • FOCUS ON: Michael Curtiz’s Casablanca
- • Two Films of Social Consciousness: The Piano and Do the Right Thing
- • The Piano
- • Do the Right Thing
- • Experimentation
- • Animated Film
- • Summary
Chapter 13: Television and Video Art
- • Television and Cinema
- • The Subject Matter of Television and Video Art
- • Commercial Television
- • The Television Series
- • The Structure of the Self-Contained Episode
- • The Television Serial
- • EXPERIENCING: The Handmaid’s Tale
- • Three Emmy Winners
- • FOCUS ON: The Americans
- • Video Art
- • EXPERIENCING: Jacopo Pontormo and Bill Viola: The Visitation
- • Summary
Chapter 14: Is It Art or Something Like It?
- • Art and Artlike
- • Illustration
- • Realism
- • Folk Art
- • Popular Art
- • Propaganda Art
- • EXPERIENCING: Fascist Propaganda Art
- • FOCUS ON: Kitsch
- • Decoration
- • Idea Art
- • Dada
- • Duchamp
- • Conceptual Art
- • Performance Art
- • Virtual Art
- • Summary
Chapter 15: The Interrelationships of the Arts
- • Appropriation
- • Interpretation
- • Film Interprets Literature: Howards End
- • Music Interprets Drama: The Marriage of Figaro
- • Painting Interprets Poetry: The Starry Night
- • Sculpture Interprets Poetry: Apollo and Daphne
- • EXPERIENCING: Bernini’s Apollo and Daphne and Ovid’s The Metamorphoses
- • Musical Drama, Inspired by Painting, Interprets Fiction: Fiddler on the Roof
- • FOCUS ON: Photography Interprets Fiction
- • Architecture Interprets Dance: National Nederlanden Building
- • Painting Interprets Dance and Music: The Dance and Music
- • EXPERIENCING: Death in Venice: Three Versions
- • Summary
Chapter 16: The Interrelationships of the Humanities
- • The Humanities and the Sciences
- • The Arts and the Other Humanities
- • EXPERIENCING: The Humanities and Students of Medicine
- • Values
- • FOCUS ON: The Arts and History, Philosophy, and Theology
- • Summary
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