TY - BOOK AU - Sporre,Dennis J. TI - The creative impulse: an introduction to the arts SN - 0130400351 (pbk.) U1 - 700 21 PY - 2000/// CY - Upper Saddle River, NJ PB - Prentice Hall KW - Arts KW - History N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 627-630); Introduction: What are the arts and how do we evaluate and describe them? -- Getting started -- The ancient world -- Archaic Greece and the Aegean -- Greek Classicism and Hellenism -- The Roman period -- Judaism and early Christianity -- Byzantium and the rise of Islam -- The early Middle Ages: the Monastic and Feudal Romanesque period -- The High Middle Ages: the Gothic Age -- The late Middle Ages -- The early Renaissance -- The High Renaissance and Mannerism -- Renaissance and Reformation in Northern Europe -- The Baroque Age -- The Enlightenment -- The Romantic Age -- The beginning of Modernism -- Modernism -- Postmodernism: the Pluralistic Age ER -