The City in the Western Tradition
Author | : Peter Halvorson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015-07-30 |
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ISBN | : 9781465279453 |
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Author | : Peter Halvorson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015-07-30 |
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ISBN | : 9781465279453 |
Author | : Horst Woldemar Janson |
Publisher | : Prentice Hall |
Total Pages | : 824 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
This classic book uses an exceptional art program, featuring impeccable accurate five-color illustrations, to introduce readers to the vast world of painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, and the minor arts. With its effectively written, balanced, and interesting narrative, this book presents art as a succession of styles--from Prehistory through the 20th century--and enlarges the readers' capacity to appreciate works of art individually. Written more than 40 years ago, this text has been constantly reworked to respond to the needs of this ever-changing field. A reference work suitable for those employed in all art media, including painters, sculptors, photographers, and architects.
Author | : David Nirenberg |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 625 |
Release | : 2013-02-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0393058247 |
A powerful history that shows anti-Judaism to be a central way of thinking in the Western tradition. This incisive history upends the complacency that confines anti-Judaism to the ideological extremes in the Western tradition. With deep learning and elegance, David Nirenberg shows how foundational anti-Judaism is to the history of the West. Questions of how we are Jewish and, more critically, how and why we are not have been churning within the Western imagination throughout its history. Ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans; Christians and Muslims of every period; even the secularists of modernity have used Judaism in constructing their visions of the world. The thrust of this tradition construes Judaism as an opposition, a danger often from within, to be criticized, attacked, and eliminated. The intersections of these ideas with the world of power—the Roman destruction of the Second Temple, the Spanish Inquisition, the German Holocaust—are well known. The ways of thought underlying these tragedies can be found at the very foundation of Western history.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Civilization, Western |
ISBN | : 9780547079684 |
Author | : Charles Warren Hollister |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : History, Ancient |
ISBN | : 9780394341903 |
Author | : Peter Riesenberg |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 349 |
Release | : 2000-11-09 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0807864129 |
Intended for both general readers and students, Peter Riesenberg's instructive book surveys Western ideas of citizenship from Greek antiquity to the French Revolution. It is striking to observe the persistence of important civic ideals and institutions over a period of 2,500 years and to learn how those ideals and institutions traveled over space and time, from the ancient Mediterranean to early modern France, England, and America.
Author | : Richard M. Golden Director, Jewish Studies Program |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 1310 |
Release | : 2006-01-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1851095128 |
The definitive compilation on witchcraft and witch hunting in the early modern era exploring significant people, places, beliefs, and events. Encyclopedia of Witchcraft: The Western Tradition is the definitive reference on the age of witch hunting (approximately 1430–1750), its origins, expansion, and ultimate decline. Incorporating a wealth of recent scholarship in four richly illustrated, alphabetically organized volumes, it offers historians and general readers alike the opportunity to explore the realities behind the legends of witchcraft and witchcraft trials. Over 170 contributors from 28 nations provide vivid, documented descriptions and analyses of witchcraft trials and locations, folklore and beliefs, magical practices and deities, influential texts, and the full range of players in this extraordinary drama—witchcraft theorists and theologians; historians and authors; judges, clergy, and rulers; the accused; and their persecutors. Concentrating on Europe and the Americas in the early modern era, the work also covers relevant topics from the ancient Near East (including the Hebrew and Christian Bibles), classical antiquity, and the European Middle Ages.
Author | : Horst Woldemar Janson |
Publisher | : Pearson |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780205685189 |
Fo> Rewritten and reorganized, this new edition weaves together the most recent scholarship, the most current thinking in art history, and the most innovative online supplements, including digital art library. Experience the new Janson and re-experience the history of art. Long established as the classic and seminal introduction to art of the Western world, the Eighth Edition of Janson's History of Art is groundbreaking. When Harry Abrams first published the History of Art in 1962, John F. Kennedy occupied the White House, and Andy Warhol was an emerging artist. Janson offered his readers a strong focus on Western art, an important consideration of technique and style, and a clear point of view. The History of Art, said Janson, was not just a stringing together of historically significant objects, but the writing of a story about their interconnections, a history of styles and of stylistic change. Janson's text focused on the visual and technical characteristics of the objects he discussed, often in extraordinarily eloquent language. Janson's History of Art helped to establish the canon of art history for many generations of scholars. The new Eighth Edition, although revised to remain current with new discoveries and scholarship, continues to follow Janson's lead in important ways: It is limited to the Western tradition, with a chapter on Islamic art and its relationship to Western art. It keeps the focus of the discussion on the object, its manufacture, and its visual character. It considers the contribution of the artist as an important part of the analysis. This edition maintains an organization along the lines established by Janson, with separate chapters on the Northern European Renaissance, the Italian Renaissance, the High Renaissance, and Baroque art, with stylistic divisions for key periods of the modern era. Also embedded in this edition is the narrative of how art has changed over time in the cultures that Europe has claimed as its patrimony.
Author | : Victor Davis Hanson |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 600 |
Release | : 1999-12-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780520209350 |
Victor Hanson shows that the "Greek revolution" was not the rise of a free and democratic urban culture, but rather the historic innovation of the independent family farm."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Marvin Perry |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 576 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : |
With a collection of 300 sources--each accompanied by an introductory essay and review questions--this two-volume primary source reader emphasizes the history of ideas. The Sixth Edition features additional sources by and about women, as well as new attention to documents dealing with social and cultural issues. This reader works as an accompaniment to any Western Civilization course, but makes an ideal companion for Perry's Western Civilization, 7/e, or Western Civilization: A Brief History, 5/e.