The creative impulse : an introduction to the arts /
Dennis J. Sporre.
- 7th ed.
- Upper Saddle River, NJ : Prentice-Hall, c2005.
- 640 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 28 cm. + 1 audio CD (4 3/4 in.)
Getting started : Two-dimensional art ; Sculpture ; Architecture ; Music ; Theatre ; Literature ; Cinema ; Dance ; Features -- Putting the arts in context : The arts and ways of knowing ; What concerns art? ; The functions of art ; Evaluating works of art -- The ancient world -- The Aegean and Archaic Greece -- Greek classicism and Hellenism -- The Roman period -- Judaism and early Christianity -- Byzantium and Islam -- The early middle ages -- The high middle ages -- The early Renaissance -- The high Renaissance and mannerism -- Renaissance and Reformation in northern Europe -- The Baroque age -- The Enlightenment -- The Romantic age -- Realism, Impressionism, and beyond -- Modernism -- From modernism to postmodernism and beyond.