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The Humanistic Tradition, 4/e
Gloria K. Fiero
The Quest for Meaning

Chapter Outline

  1. The Historical Context
    1. the postwar condition
    2. utopias and dystopias
  2. Existentialism and Freedom
    1. Sartre and humanistic existentialism
    2. Christian existentialism
    3. existentialism and literature
    4. theater of the absurd: Beckett
  3. Film at Mid-Century
  4. The Quest for Meaning in Modern Poetry
    1. Eliot and Thomas
    2. Tagore
    3. Islamic poetry: Iqbal and Anwar
  5. The Visual Arts at Mid-Century
    1. painting
      1. abstract expressionism
      2. color field painting
      3. regional realism
    2. sculpture
      1. constructed sculpture
      2. mobiles
    3. architecture
      1. international style
      2. Saarinen
      3. Wright
  6. Music and Dance at Mid-Century
    1. Cage and aleatory music
    2. Cunningham's radical choreography








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