Arts and Culture: An Introduction to the Humanities, Combined Volume, 4th edition

For an undergraduate introductory level course in humanities.
An introduction to the world’s major civilizations.

This Fourth Edition is an introduction to the world’s major civilizations–to their artistic achievements, their history, and their cultures. Through an integrated approach to the humanities, Arts and Culture offers an opportunity to view works of art, read literature, and listen to music in historical and cultural contexts. In studying the humanities, we focus our attention on works of art, literature, and music that reflect and embody the central values and beliefs of particular cultures and specific historical moments.

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Superb Box Program to highlights connections between the arts and different cultures:

• Interdisciplinary Connections boxes highlight how artists'/thinkers' ideas in one discipline affected ideas and values shaped in another.
• Cultural Cross Currents boxes- explore connections made between two cultures, focusing on sub-topics in the various disciplines and helping students engage in cross-cultural studies.
• Then & Now boxes- Helps students link things they already know with things they don't know. Draws from contemporary culture, showing students how artifacts of today's American culture have roots in past Western and non-Western civilizations alike.
• Cultural Impact boxes show students how past achievements influenced later cultures and how they still impact the contemporary world.

 Music CD: A music CD that accompanies the music selections in the text is available to package with this text.