A History of Art and Music by HW Janson and J Kerman (Art Ebook).pdf

Pdf / English / 1968 Prentice-Hall / 318 pages / 59 MB

This book has been written to fill a need — the need for a history-in-brief of art and music designed as an introduction to these fields in the framework of a general humanities course. This can be done in several ways, and all of them have their dangers. At one extreme is the integrated treatment of both subjects under common headings, at the other complete independence.
The first tends to encourage facile generalizations or forced attempts to demonstrate unity of development at any price, while the second is likely to produce two separate histories without a common denominator.
We have chosen a middle way. Each author has been solely responsible for his own area, so that art and music are presented as separate entities; but, as a glance at the table of contents will show, we have adopted a common pattern of organization for the major subdivisions of both fields, inviting the reader to compare the exposition chapter by chapter. As aspects of the history of civilization, art and music both reflect the major developments that determine
the way we divide the flow of the past into periods—such as the rise of towns in the later