Humanities Across The Arts Ebook Alone

"Humanities through the Arts" is intended for introductory-level, interdisciplinary courses offered across the curriculum in the Humanities, Philosophy, Art, English, Music, and Education departments. Arranged topically by art form from painting, sculpture, photography, and architecture to literature, music, theater, film, and dance. This beautifully illustrated text helps students learn how to actively engage a work of art. The new sixth edition retains the popular focus on the arts as an expression of cultural and personal values..

Originally published in hardcover in 2021 by Aladdin.

Arts and humanities are imagined as inseparable and integrated activities. Both challenge and enlarge our basic human capacities for interpretation and evaluation. In the arena of literary studies, there is a growing academic interest for the study of Arts and Humanities across the world. What may rightfully be expected of art is to depend on the nature of the entity itself. Understanding possible applications of art helps to determine its identity. The recent pursuit for mapping the mosaics including that of literary and culture studies makes it interesting to interrogate transnational cultures formation of canons and deconstruction of stereotypes. Writing has always been powerful space of discourse to address the varied areas. The articles in this book gives not only an insight, but rather a formative investigation into the ways in which works of art intersect with issues of broader humanistic concern. The articles intend to explore the intricate issues in the field of Art and Humanities. The book will serve the purpose of students, scholars and faculty to register the various trends in this area. Ways of developing basic tools of analysis in the area projects particular cultural status, construct systems of value, and negotiate social and ethical dilemmas which will develop a sense of intellectual responsibility towards the environment where one belong to.