"This edition, the sixth, maintains The Creative Impulse's overall focus and intent- that is, to present an overview of the arts in the Western tradition in the contexts of the philosophy, religion, aesthetic theory, economics, and politics surrounding them. The text remains an historical introduction to the humanities from which the reader will gain a basic familiarity with major styles and their implications as well as a sense of the historical development of individual arts disciplines. The major focus of the text is the arts, and one of the changes in this edition is an attempt to make that focus clearer, and the organizations of each chapter more transparent, bydividing each chapter into two major 1) Contexts and Concepts; and 2) The Arts...."
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