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Product Description: Thematic and Chronological Approach to the Humanities   Reality Through the Arts is a popular choice for professors because it provides both a topical and chronological approach to the humanities. Part I, “The Media of the Arts,” offers independent chapters on two dimensional art (drawing, painting, printmaking, and photography), sculpture, architecture, music, literature, theatre, cinema, and dance...read more
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9780205660483 | 7 pap/cdr edition (Prentice Hall, January 22, 2009), cover price $132.40 | About this edition: Reality Through the Arts provides a comprehensive introduction that covers both arts history and aesthetic perception in western and non-western cultures by covering all the artistic disciplines: drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, sculpture, architecture, theatre, music, dance, cinema, and literature.
9780131958586 | 6 pap/cdr edition (Prentice Hall, March 24, 2006), cover price $131.00
9780131831148 | Prentice Hall, July 1, 2003, cover price $119.20 | About this edition: This introductory exploration of basic artistic concepts and terms applies them to a skeletal multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural history of artistic styles.
9780130278821 | 4 stg edition (Prentice Hall, August 1, 2000), cover price $26.00 | About this edition: This introductory exploration of basic artistic concepts and terms applies them to a skeletal multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural history of artistic styles.
9780130225658 | 4th edition (Prentice Hall, July 1, 2000), cover price $76.00
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Product Description: Offering an exploration of Western and World civilization's cultural heritage, this book is richly illustrated, beautifully designed and engaging. Readers move chronologically through major periods and styles–from prehistoric culture to 20th Century America–to gain insight into the achievements and ideas in painting, sculpture, architecture, literature, philosophy, religion, and music...read more
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9780132283915 | 3 pap/cdr edition (Prentice Hall, January 31, 2007), cover price $157.40 | About this edition: Offering an exploration of Western and World civilization's cultural heritage, this book is richly illustrated, beautifully designed and engaging.
9789990217063, titled "Arts and Culture: An Introduction to the Humanities Combined Volume" | 3 edition (Prentice Hall, January 30, 2007), cover price $0.02

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Product Description: For one semester/quarter courses on Introduction to the Humanities or Cultural Studies.   Now in full color, Arts and Culture provides an introduction to global civilizations and their artistic achievements, history, and cultures...read more
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9780132134965 | 4th edition (Prentice Hall, February 15, 2011), cover price $123.40 | About this edition: For one semester/quarter courses on Introduction to the Humanities or Cultural Studies.
9780205816606 | 4th edition (Prentice Hall, December 30, 2010), cover price $123.40 | About this edition: For one semester/quarter courses on Introduction to the Humanities or Cultural Studies.
9789990076578 | 2 edition (Prentice Hall, July 19, 2004), cover price $0.02
9789990132489 | 2 edition (Prentice Hall, July 19, 2004), cover price $0.02
9789990132472 | 2 edition (Prentice Hall, July 15, 2004), cover price $0.02

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Product Description: We all have a stake in the past and in its tangible preservation, and we trust professionals to preserve our cultural heritage for the future. However, restoration in all its forms is entangled in many contemporary theoretical debates and problems...read more
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9780521898089 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, February 16, 2009), cover price $97.00 | About this edition: We all have a stake in the past and in its tangible preservation, and we trust professionals to preserve our cultural heritage for the future.

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9780521725910 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, February 16, 2009), cover price $36.00 | About this edition: We all have a stake in the past and in its tangible preservation, and we trust professionals to preserve our cultural heritage for the future.

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Art and Thought is a collection of newly commissioned essays that explores the relationship between the discipline of art history and important movements in the history of western thought.Brings together newly commissioned essays that explore the relationship between the discipline of art history and movements in the history of western thought.Considers the impact of the writings of key thinkers, including Aristotle, Kant, and Heidegger, on the way in which objects are perceived and understood and histories of art are constructed, deconstructed, and reconfigured according to varying sets of philosophical frameworks.Introduces the reader to the dynamic interface between philosophical reflections and art practices.Part of the New Interventions in Art History series, which is published in conjunction with the Association of Art Historians.
By Dana Arnold (editor) and Margaret Iversen (editor)
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9780631227144 | Blackwell Pub, April 18, 2003, cover price $128.95 | About this edition: Art and Thought is a collection of newly commissioned essays that explores the relationship between the discipline of art history and important movements in the history of western thought.

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9780631227151 | Blackwell Pub, April 18, 2003, cover price $47.95 | About this edition: Art and Thought is a collection of newly commissioned essays that explores the relationship between the discipline of art history and important movements in the history of western thought.

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9780470777336 | Blackwell Pub, April 15, 2008, cover price $115.95

Miscellaneous:

9780470774199 | Onl edition (John Wiley & Sons Inc, February 25, 2008), cover price $130.00

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Product Description: An award-winning and highly original endeavor to map a cultural history of spatio-visual art.Traversing a varied and enchanting landscape with forays into the fields of geography, art, architecture, design, cartography and film, Giuliana Bruno's Atlas of Emotion, winner of the 2004 Kraszna-Krausz award for "the world's best book on the moving image", is a highly original endeavor to map a cultural history of spatio-visual arts...read more
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9781859848029 | Verso Books, September 1, 2002, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Choice: Outstanding Academic Title of the Year; Guardian: Book of the Year; 2004 Kraszna-Krausz Prize Winner Traversing a varied and enchanting landscape with forays into the fields of geography, art, architecture, design, cartography and film, Giuliana Bruno's Atlas of Emotion is a highly original endeavor to map a cultural history of spatio-visual arts.

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9781859841334 | Verso Books, May 28, 2007, cover price $44.95 | About this edition: An award-winning and highly original endeavor to map a cultural history of spatio-visual art.

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A sequel to Intellectuals addresses the creative side of genius in a series of portraits of men and women--including Drer, Shakespeare, Bach, T. S. Eliot, Dante, Chaucer, Dickens, Picasso, and Disney--and explores the influence of their work on their lives and on the development of art, literature, fashion, music, and other creative fields in the Western world. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.
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9780060191436 | Harpercollins, March 1, 2006, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Addresses the creative side of genius in a series of portraits of men and women and explores the influence of their work on their lives and on the development of art, literature, fashion, music, and other creative fields in the Western world.

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9780060930462 | Reprint edition (Perennial, May 1, 2007), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: A sequel to Intellectuals addresses the creative side of genius in a series of portraits of men and women--including Drer, Shakespeare, Bach, T.

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Product Description: For one or two semester/quarter courses on Introduction to the Humanities or Cultural Studies.   Now in full color, Arts and Culture provides an introduction to global civilizations and their artistic achievements, history, and cultures...read more
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9780138480035, titled "Arts and Culture: An Introduction to the Humanities" | Prentice Hall, June 1, 1998, cover price $48.00 | About this edition: Richly illustrated, beautifully designed, and engaging, this introduction to the humanities offers a thorough yet accessible integrated exploration of Western civilization's cultural heritage -- with an emphasis on cultural achievements in the arts of literature, philosophy, religion, painting, music, sculpture, and architecture.

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9780132321716, titled "Arts and Culture: An Introduction to the Humanities" | 3 pap/cdr edition (Prentice Hall, January 31, 2007), cover price $141.00 | About this edition: Offering an exploration of Western and World civilization's cultural heritage, this book is richly illustrated, beautifully designed and engaging.
9780131578609, titled "Arts and Culture: An Introduction to the Humanities" | 3 pap/cdr edition (Prentice Hall, January 31, 2007), cover price $141.00 | About this edition: Offering an exploration of Western and World civilization's cultural heritage, this book is richly illustrated, beautifully designed and engaging.
9780131899155, titled "Arts And Culture: An Introduction To The Humanities" | 2 pap/com edition (Prentice Hall, July 19, 2004), cover price $112.00 | About this edition: For one-/two-semester courses in Introduction to Humanities and Cultural Studies.
9780131899131, titled "Arts And Culture: An Introduction To The Humanities" | 2 edition (Prentice Hall, July 19, 2004), cover price $104.60 | About this edition: For one-/two-semester courses in Introduction to Humanities and Cultural Studies.
9780131899148, titled "Arts And Culture: An Introduction To The Humanities" | 2 pap/cdr edition (Prentice Hall, July 15, 2004), cover price $104.60 | About this edition: For one-/two-semester courses in Introduction to Humanities and Cultural Studies.
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9780137893973, titled "Arts and Culture: An Introduction to the Humanities" | Prentice Hall, December 1, 1999, cover price $23.60 | About this edition: Richly illustrated, beautifully designed, and engaging, this introduction to the humanities offers a thorough yet accessible integrated exploration of Western civilization's cultural heritage -- with an emphasis on cultural achievements in the arts of literature, philosophy, religion, painting, music, sculpture, and architecture.

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9781551929774 | Raincoast Book Dist Ltd, October 31, 2006, cover price $95.00

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By James Allan Evans (editor)
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9780787656997 | Gale Group, November 1, 2004, cover price $150.00

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By Edward Bleiberg (editor)
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9780787656980 | Gale Group, November 1, 2004, cover price $150.00

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9780787657000 | Gale Group, November 1, 2004, cover price $150.00

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By Philip M. Soergel (editor)
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9780787656973 | Gale Group, November 1, 2004, cover price $150.00

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By Philip M. Soergel (editor)
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9780787656966 | Gale Group, November 1, 2004, cover price $150.00

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By Edward Bleiberg (editor), James Allan Evans (editor), Kristen Mossler Figg (editor), John Block Friedman (editor) and Philip M. Soergel (editor)
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9780787656959 | Gale Group, November 1, 2004, cover price $649.00

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Product Description: A top-seller since it first published in 1955, FLEMING'S ARTS and IDEAS chronologically explores a breadth of humanities topics from antiquity to the present. New author Mary Warner Marien continues the text's tradition of combining outstanding scholarship with high quality art reproductions, while at the same time bringing a new contemporary voice to this classic text...read more
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9780534613716 | 10 pap/cdr edition (Wadsworth Pub Co, July 9, 2004), cover price $212.95 | About this edition: A top-seller since it first published in 1955, FLEMING'S ARTS and IDEAS chronologically explores a breadth of humanities topics from antiquity to the present.
9780534613839, titled "Arts And Ideas: with Infotrac" | 10 pap/cdr edition (Wadsworth Pub Co, July 9, 2004), cover price $184.95 | About this edition: A top-seller since it first published in 1955, FLEMING'S ARTS and IDEAS chronologically explores a breadth of humanities topics from antiquity to the present.

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Product Description: By piecing the lives of selected individuals into a grand mosaic, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Daniel J. Boorstin explores the development of artistic innovation over 3,000 years. A hugely ambitious chronicle of the arts that Boorstin delivers with the scope that made his Discoverers a national bestseller...read more
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9780394543956, titled "The Creators/a History of Heroes of the Imagination" | Random House Inc, September 1, 1992, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Examines humanity's search for knowledge, discussing the writers, painters, musicians, and architects who have contributed to civilization

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9780679743750, titled "The Creators/a History of Heroes of the Imagination" | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, October 1, 1993), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Chronicles the history of the arts and includes biographies of important figures ranging from Homer to Stravinsky incorporated into a mosaic of creativity that spans three thousand years

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9781590073599 | Abridged edition (New Millenium Audio, July 1, 2003), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: By piecing the lives of selected individuals into a grand mosaic, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Daniel J.

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Product Description: With The Invention of Art, Larry Shiner challenges our conventional understandings of art and asks us to reconsider its history entirely, arguing that the category of fine art is a modern invention—that the lines drawn between art and craft resulted from key social transformations in Europe during the long eighteenth century...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780226753423 | Univ of Chicago Pr, September 1, 2001, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: With The Invention of Art, Larry Shiner challenges our conventional understandings of art and asks us to reconsider its history entirely, arguing that the category of fine art is a modern invention—that the lines drawn between art and craft resulted from key social transformations in Europe during the long eighteenth century.

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9780226753430 | Univ of Chicago Pr, April 15, 2003, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: With The Invention of Art, Larry Shiner challenges our conventional understandings of art and asks us to reconsider its history entirely, arguing that the category of fine art is a modern invention—that the lines drawn between art and craft resulted from key social transformations in Europe during the long eighteenth century.

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Product Description: This book offers an integrated exploration of Western civilization's cultural heritage. Readers move chronologically through major periods and styles to gain insight into the achievements and ideas in painting, sculpture, architecture, literature, philosophy, religion, and music...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780130975096 | Bk&cd-rom edition (Prentice Hall, November 1, 2001), cover price $86.00 | About this edition: This book offers an integrated exploration of Western civilization's cultural heritage.

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Product Description: The Creative Impulse introduces the arts of the Western tradition with a chronological organization. It covers a wide variety of subjects including painting, sculpture, architecture, theatre, music, dance, literature, and film, all in their historical context...read more
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9780131936805 | 7 pap/cdr edition (Prentice Hall, March 1, 2005), cover price $116.40
9780130447401 | 6 edition (Prentice Hall, May 1, 2002), cover price $93.80 | About this edition: For any introductory course in Humanities or Interdisciplinary Arts Appreciation.
9789990818093 | 6 edition (Prentice Hall, May 1, 2002), cover price $0.02
9789990832525 | 5th edition (Prentice Hall, July 1, 1999), cover price $0.02
9780133490855 | 4th edition (Prentice Hall, January 1, 1996), cover price $61.80 | About this edition: For any introductory course in Humanities or Interdisciplinary Arts Appreciation.
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Discusses the cultural controversies of the past and present, and talks about what is worth remembering and why, and what gets passed down from one generation to another
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9780465044887 | Basic Books, April 1, 1996, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Discusses the cultural controversies of the past and present, and talks about what is worth remembering and why, and what gets passed down from one generation to another

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9780465044894 | Harpercollins, April 1, 1997, cover price $13.00 | About this edition: Discusses the cultural controversies of the past and present, and talks about what is worth remembering and why, and what gets passed down from one generation to another

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Product Description: Intended for courses in Western Humanities, this best-selling text chronologically explores the major styles as they appear in painting, sculpture, architecture, literature, music, and philosophy from antiquity to present. Using lively anecdotes, Fleming shows how the styles are linked together by common purposes, themes, and ideas...read more
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9780030540134, titled "Arts & Ideas" | 8 sub edition (Harcourt School, January 1, 1991), cover price $83.95 | About this edition: Traces the development of painting, sculpture, architecture, literature, music, and philosophy from ancient times to the present, focusing on five main stylistic periods

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9780155011045 | Harcourt College Pub, June 1, 1994, cover price $84.95 | About this edition: Intended for courses in Western Humanities, this best-selling text chronologically explores the major styles as they appear in painting, sculpture, architecture, literature, music, and philosophy from antiquity to present.
9789990003550 | 9 edition (Thomson Learning, June 1, 1994), cover price $0.02
9780030404849 | 8th edition (Harcourt School, October 1, 1990), cover price $56.86 | About this edition: Traces the development of painting, sculpture, architecture, literature, music, and philosophy from ancient times to the present, focusing on five main stylistic periods

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9780030056697 | Harcourt School, June 1, 1986, cover price $20.95 | About this edition: Intended for courses in Western Humanities, this best-selling text chronologically explores the major styles as they appear in painting, sculpture, architecture, literature, music, and philosophy from antiquity to present.

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Surveys the arts and ideas of Western civilization from the Paleolithic era through the twentieth century, covering developments in philosophy, painting, sculpture, literature, music, and other areas
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9780810919242, titled "Art and Civilization" | Harry N Abrams Inc, March 1, 1993, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Surveys the arts and ideas of Western civilization from the Paleolithic era through the twentieth century, covering developments in philosophy, painting, sculpture, literature, music, and other areas

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9780130465580 | Prentice Hall, December 1, 1992, cover price $71.00 | About this edition: The story of the arts in the West from prehistory to the present.

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9780404641603 | Ams Pr Inc, October 1, 1992, cover price $64.50

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9780130535627 | 2 sub edition (Prentice Hall, October 1, 1991), cover price $68.20

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