Janaro Custom Index, 8th Edition
From Janaro and Altshuler, The Art of Being Human,
Eighth Edition
Pages 30-65 (Chapter 2), pages 482-511 (Chapter 12), pages 242-327 (Chapters 7 &
8), pages 200-241 (Chapter 6), pages 140-199 (Chapter 5)
A
Abbott, George, 317
Adams, John
Nixon in China, opera, 311–313
photograph of scene from, 312
The Adding Machine, 257
African mythology
Ghana, sacrifice myth, 50
Yoruba Tribe, 33
Zambia, origin of death myth, 53
Afterlife, 561–564
Christian visions of heaven and hell,469–470
The Gospel According to Saint Luke, 469
Ailey, Alvin, 331–332
Dance company, photograph of,331
Albee, Edward
Who’s Afraid of Virgina Woolf, 258–259
Anderson, Laurie, 239
Anderson, Maxwell
Elizabeth the Queen, 258
Mary of Scotland, 258
Winterset, 258
Angkor Wat, 192–193
photograph of, 193
Anguisola, Sophonisba, 164
animated films
Apollonianism, 205–207, 260
architecture
Angkor Wat, 192–193
Frank Lloyd Wright, 191
Guggenheim Museum, New York
photograph of, 195
Johnson Wax Building, 194
Frank O. Gehry, 193–195
Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain
photograph of, 195
archetypes in mythology, 33–46
circle, 41–42
mandala, illus., 42
doomed family, 45
garden, the, 43–44
hero, the, 34–37
journey, 42–43
magic, 39–40
Ian McKellen as Gandalf,
photograph of, 40
non-Western hero, 37–38
power of numbers, 40–41
power of words, 40
Aristippus, 484–489
Aristophanes, 272–273
The Clouds, 272–273
Lysistrata, 272
Aristotle, 64, 262
catharsis, defined, 260
happiness, 501–504
The Nichomachean Ethics, 498
tragedy, defined, 260–261, 335
Art, 142
B
Bach, Johann Sebastian, 212–214
Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, 212
portrait of, 213
Bacon, Francis, 174
Baez, Joan, 222–223
photograph of, 223
Balanchine, George, 318
baroque era, 212–213
Bayeux Tapestry, 153
The Beatles, 234–235
photograph of, 235
Beckett, Samuel
Waiting for Godot, 292–293
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 214–218
Symphony No. 3, 215–217
Symphony No. 9, 210–211, 217–218
portrait of, 215
Bennett, Michael, 316
Berlin, Irving, 230–232
Bernstein, Leonard, 209
On the Town, 313
West Side Story, 320–321, 532
Bloom, Harold, 269–270
W.C. Handy, 229
Bessie Smith, 230
photograph of, 230
Bonheur, Rosa
Plowing in the Nivernais, 145
Braque, Georges, 177–179
The Musician, illus., 208
Brecht, Bertolt
The Caucasian Chalk Circle, 283–284
buffalo dance, 297, 324
C
Cage, John, 211–212
Cassatt, Mary, 169–170
The Bath, illus., 170
Castiglione, Baldassare
cave drawings, 143
Cezanne, Paul, 168
Chaplin, Charlie
photograph of, 315
The Charioteer, illus., 149
Chekhov, Anton, 107, 279–281
and naturalism, 279–283
The Seagull, 293
Three Sisters, 279–281
children’s mythology
“Ali Baba,” 40
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, 58
“Peter Pan,” 44
“The Princess and the Pea,” 56
“Red Riding Hood,” 55, 57
Gustave Doré illus., 100
Santa Claus, 57, 59
“Snow White,” 56
The Wizard of Oz, 44, 56
Chinese classical art, 149
Chinese music, 237–238
chorus
in classical theater, 245–246
in musical theater, 297
A Chorus Line, 316
Christo (Javacheff), 191
chronology of art, 172
chronology of music, 220
chronology of song and dance, 316
chronology of theater, 278
classicism
in drama, 244–246
in visual art, 148–153
comedy
of character, 274–276
farce, 269–272
parody, 273–274
satire, 272–274
commedia dell’arte, 242, 281
computer art, 188
conventions of theater, 243–259
classical, 243–244
Elizabethan, 246–251
neoclassical, 251–253
modern, 257–259
Victorian, 253–257
Copland, Aaron, 225
critics, professional
Howard Cohen, 22–23
David Denby, 22
Anthony Lane, 22
Alex Ross, 23
Cubism, 177–181
D
Dalai Lama, 508–509
Dali, Salvador, 181
Invention of the Monsters, Color Plate 15
Dante (Alighieri), 40, 397
da Ponte, Lorenzo
collaboration with Mozart, 302–303
David (Donatello), 151–152
photograph of, 152
David (Michelangelo), 151–152
photograph of, 152
David, Jacques Louis
Napoleon Crossing the St. Bernard Pass,
I
llus., 216
Debussy, Claude, 169
Delacroix, Eugene
de la Mare,Walter
Memoirs of a Midget, 63–64
The Diary of Anne Frank, 503–504
Dionysus, 50, 297
Disney,Walt
Beauty and the Beast, 322
Fantasia, 141
The Lion King, 322–324
Snow White and the Seven
Dwarfs, 322
Donatello
David, photograph of, 152
Douglas, Lord Alfred, 80
Duchamp, Marcel, 81, 174–176, 188
Fountain, illus., 174
Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2,
Color Plate 24
Dylan, Bob, 219, 224
E
Eliot, T.S.
Murder in the Cathedral, 496
Elizabethan era, 246–247, 264–265
Ellington, Edward Kennedy (Duke)
photograph of, 228
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 46
Epictetus, 495
Epicurus, 489–493
eros, 514–520
Euclid, 151
Euripides
Medea, 261–263, 266, 274
poster, 262
F
farce
defined, 269
commedia dell’arte, 269–270
fax art, 188–189
Fo, Dario
Accidental Death of an Anarchist, 284–285
folk songs, 219–225
Frank, Anne, 503–504
Frankl, Viktor, 502
Frayn, Michael
Copenhagen, 258
Freud, Sigmund, 181–182
influence on the humanities, 181–182, 268
Fugard, Athol
Sizwe Banze Is Dead, 286
G
Gandhi, Mohandas K., 505–506
Gauguin, Paul, 175
Fatata Te Mitte (By the Sea), Color Plate 11
Gehry, Frank O., 192, 195–197
Gentileschi, Artemisia, 164
Judith Beheading Holofernes, Color Plate 5
Gershwin, George
Rhapsody in Blue, 228–229
Of Thee I Sing, 314–316
Porgy and Bess, 308, 310–311
photograph of, 229
Giotto (di Bondone), 155–156
Miracle at the Spring, illus., 156
Glass, Philip, 209
Gluck, Christoph
Orfeo et Euridice, 300
Golden Section, 151
Gorman, R.C., 183, 186
Goya, Francisco, 166–167
Saturn Devouring His Children, Color Plate 6
The Third of May, illus., 36
H
Haley, Bill (and the Comets), 233
Hammerstein II, Oscar, 310, 319–320
Handy,W.C., 229
Hansberry, Lorraine
A Raisin in the Sun, 285–286
Hanson, Duane, 185–186
Supermarket Lady, photograph of, 186
hedonism, 484–489
Hellman, Lillian, 287
The Children’s Hour, 287
Hemingway, Ernest
and Epicureanism, 491–492
the hero as archetype, 34–39
Joseph Campbell on, 37
Herrick, Robert
“Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,” 486
Hinduism
karma, 54
reincarnation, 42
Hopper, Edward, 183–184
Nighthawks, illus., 501
I
Ibsen, Henrik
A Doll’s House, 255–256, 276–277
photograph of set for, 256
photograph of scene from 1997
revival, 277
Ghosts, 277
Impressionism
Berthe Morisot, 169
Claude Debussy, 169
Claude Monet, 168
Edouard Manet, 144–145, 168–169
James MacNeil Whistler, 170
Mary Cassatt, 169–170
India
classical art of, 149
kathak dance, 325
Krishna Dancing in Paradise, Color Plate 27
The Mahabharata, 128
J
Jackson, Mahalia, 225–226
photograph of, 226
Japan
Korin, Ogata, 183
Azaleas, Color Plate 14
Noguchi, Isamu
The Water Stone, photograph of, 7
jazz, 227–229
Joplin, Scott, 226–227, 332
Treemonisha, 309
Jung, Carl G.,
archetypes, theory of, 33
K
Kandinsky,Wassily, 141–142, 175
Composition VII, Color Plate 12
karma, 54, 58, 404
Keats, John
Endymion, 62
Kelly, Gene, 318
Kern, Jerome, 232
Showboat, 85, 310
“Smoke Gets in Your Eyes,” 230
Kesey, Ken
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,
284–285
photograph of scene from
film, 285
Kienholz, Edward
Still Live, 191
King, Jr., Martin Luther, 504
“I have a dream,” 225–226
Kushner, Tony
Angels in America, 287–289
photograph of scene from, 288
The Laocoön, 150
photograph of, 150
Latin America
La Llorona, myth of, 53
Leonardo (da Vinci), 157–160
The Last Supper
analysis of, 158–159
Color Plate 3
Mona Lisa
analysis of, 159–160
illus., 159
Lippi, Fillipo, 156–157
Little Richard, 234
Lord of the Rings, 39, 40, 55, 62
M
MacLeish, Archibald
“Ars Poetica,”486
“You, Andrew Marvell,” 487
Madonna, 124
The Alba Madonna (Raphael), illus.,163
11th-century illus., 155
Manet, Édouard, 144–145, 168–169
A Bar at the Folies-Bergere, illus., 144
Marsalis,Wynton, 229
photograph of, 200
Marvell, Andrew
“To His Coy Mistress,” 486
Mejia, Jorge, 236
Michelangelo (Buonarotti), 143,147, 152, 156, 160–162, 164, 192,
David, 14, 147, 152, 156
photograph of, 152
Pietá (Vatican), 160–162
photograph of, 161
Pietá Rondanini, 160
Sistine Chapel, 161–162, 616
Miller, Arthur
Death of a Salesman, 258, 267, 523
A View from the Bridge, 267–268
photograph of scene from, 268
Milton, John
Paradise Lost, 48–49, 470
Mitchell, Joni, 232
Mohammed, 37
Molière (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin), 252, 257
The Miser, 527
Tartuffe, censorship of, 72, 273
The Would-Be Gentleman, 270–271
photograph from film of, 271
Mondrian, Piet, 176–177
Monet, Claude, 168
Monteverdi, Claudio, 298–300
La favola d’Orfeo, 299–300
Mozart,Wolfgang Amadeus, 298, 300–306
The Abduction from the Seraglio, 301–302
Cosi fan tutte, 302
Don Giovanni, 302, 519–520
The Marriage of Figaro, 302–304, 519
photograph of scene from, 303
N
Native-American culture
Gorman, R.C., 183
Navajo Dawn, Color Plate 18
Noh Theatre of Japan, 289–290
Notre Dame cathedral, illus., 154
O
Oedipus Rex, 35–36, 45–46, 132, 245–246, 260–261, 263, 267, 269
O’Keeffe, Georgia, 182–183
Purple Petunias, Color Plate 17
Oldenburg, Claes, 189
Soft Toilet, photograph of, 189
O’Neill, Eugene
Desire Under the Elms, 257
Long Day’s Journey into Night, 281–283
Mourning Becomes Electra, 45–46
Orpheus, 53–54, 299–300
Orwell, George
Animal Farm, 273
1984, 545
P
Paganini, Nicolo, 208
Parker, Charlie, 228
Parthenon, 149–150
photograph of, 151
Peking Opera, 313–314
photograph of masked character,
Color Plate 21
performance art, 190–191
Persephone, 49–50, 515–516
Phidias, 149–150
phoenix myth, 572–574
photography as art, 187–188
Picasso, Pablo, 15, 71, 177–181
Les Demoiselles D’Avignon, illus., 178
Guernica, 444
analysis of, 179–180
illus., 180
Pinter, Harold, 258
Plato, 202
Ben Jonson on, 520
The Republic, 308
Pop art, 189–190
Porter, Cole, 205
Poseidon of Artemision
photograph of, 148
Post-Impressionism, 170–172, 175
Presley, Elvis, 233
photograph of, 233
Primitivism, 44
R
Rachmaninoff, Sergei, 208
Racine, Jean
Phaedra, 266, 516
Raphael (Sanzio), 162–163
Alba Madonna, illus., 163
Redon, Odilon
The Eye, illus., 140
Rembrandt (Harmenszoon van Rijn), 164–165, 172
Sacrifice of Isaac, Color Plate 29
Self-Portrait, illus., 165
Renaissance art, 156–164
(see also Anguisola, Gentileschi, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael)
rhythm, 205–207
Robbins, Jerome, 320
rock music, 232–236
Rockefeller, John D., 132
Rodgers, Richard, 289–290
Carousel, 320
The King and I, 320
Oklahoma! 319–320
The Sound of Music, 320
South Pacific, 320
Pal Joey, 317–318
Roget, Peter Mark, 324
The Rolling Stones, 251
romance
as archetype, 32
romanticism
in music, 207–208
in opera, 304–306
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 501, 611
Rousseau, Jean–Jacques, 44
Rumi, Mevlana
and the Whirling Dervishes, 325
S
Saint Thomas à Becket, 495–496, 578
Salieri, Antonio, 302
F. Murray Abraham as Salieri in scene from Amadeus, 304
Santa Claus, 57, 59
Santeria, 33
satire, 272–273
scales, 203–205
Schoenberg, Arnold, 238–239
Schubert, Franz, 219
Shakespeare,William, 246–250, 252, 264–265
Antony and Cleopatra, 252
characters in, 160
Hamlet, 247–250, 264
Henry IV, Pts. I and II, 274–275
Henry V, 32, 247, 250, 257
King Lear, 265
photograph of Christopher Plummer as, 242
A Midsummer-Night’s Dream, 298,
Macbeth, 265
Othello, 249–250, 265, 298
photograph of Lawrence Fishburne and Kenneth Branagh in scene from, 249
Romeo and Juliet, 251, 258, 298, 320–321
Twelfth Night, 61, 248, 298
Venus and Adonis, 62
Shaw, George Bernard, 37
Pygmalion, 279
Saint Joan, 31
Siddhartha Gautama, 507–510
Sinatra, Frank, 232
Sixty-ninth Regiment Armory Show, 174–177
Smith, Bessie
photograph of, 230
Sondheim, Stephen, 56
Merrily We Roll Along, 258
Sweeney Todd, 321–322
West Side Story, 320–321
Sophocles, 36, 260–261, 263
Antigone, 45, 263
Oedipus Rex, 35, 45–46, 132, 245–246, 160–161, 163, 267, 269
Spielberg, Steven
E.T., 44
spirituals, 225–226
Stanislavsky, Konstantin, 254, 266, 280
Stieglitz, Alfred, 182–183, 187
The Terminal, illus., 187
Stockhausen, Karlheinz, 239
Stoicism, 493–497
Christian martyrdom, 495
Epictetus, 495, 572
Zeno, 494
Stonehenge, 51–52
Stoppard,Tom
The Real Inspector Hound, 273–274
The Real Thing, 275
Stravinsky, Igor
The Rite of Spring, 238, 328
Tallchief, Maria, 326
photograph of, 196
Taylor, Maggie, 188
The Philosopher’s Daughter, Color Plate 19
Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich
1812 Overture, 210
Piano Concerto No. 1, 207
Sleeping Beauty, 327
Swan Lake, 327
Thoreau, Henry David, 194
Tolkien, J.R.R.
Lord of the Rings, 39, 40, 55, 62,
Tragedy, 259–268
Aristotle’s definition of, 259–260
Greek, 260–264
modern, 266–268
neoclassical, 266
Shakespearean, 264–265
Trojan War, 45, 105–107, 123
Twain, Mark (Samuel Clemens), 44
U
Uelsmann, Jerry
Homage to Duchamp, illus., 188
The Upanishads, 47
V
van Gogh, Vincent, 140, 170–173, 175, 484
Sunflowers, illus., 171
Varése, Edgard, 239
Verdi, Giuseppe, 304–306
Rigoletto, 304–305
La Traviata, 305–306
photograph of scene from, 305
verisimilitude in theater, 256–257
W
Wagner, Richard, 299–300, 306–308
The Flying Dutchman, 307
Lohengrin, 307
Opera and Drama, 306
Tannhäuser, 306
The Ring of the Nibelung cycle, 306–308
Warhol, Andy, 142, 189–190
The Chelsea Girls, 189–190
Marilyn Monroe, Color Plate 20
Webber, Andrew Lloyd
Cats, 301
Evita, 301
Weiss, Peter
The Persecution and Assassination of
Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by
the Inmates of the Charenton
Asylum under the Direction of the
Marquis de Sade, 284
Welles, Orson, 190
Whistler, James McNeill, 170
Whitman,Walt, 146, 401
Wilde, Oscar, 474
The Importance of Being Earnest, 10, 256–257, 291–292
Wilder, Thornton, 289
The Bridge of San Luis Rey, 47
Our Town, 257, 563
Williams, Tennessee, 71
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, 287
The Glass Menagerie, 281
A Streetcar Named Desire, 287, 308, 605–606
Wilson, August
Fences, 186–287
Wilson, Robert
the CIVIL warS, 259
The Wizard of Oz, 44, 56, 292
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 191, 194–195
(see also architecture)
Wycherley, William
The Country Wife, 270–272
Table of Contents for Reference
From Janaro and Altshuler, The Art of Being Human,
Eighth Edition
Chapter 2
Myth and the Origin
of the Humanities 30
Overview 31
Archetypes in Mythology 33
The Hero as World Myth 34
Magic 39
The Power of Words 40
The Circle 41
The Journey 42
The Garden 43
The Doomed Family 45
Gods as Human Beings 46
Myth as Explanation 47
Creation 47
The Natural World 49
Human Suffering 52
Myths of Childhood 54
The Need for Reassurance 55
The Importance of Being Attractive and Rich 55
The Importance of Names 56
The Dark Side 56
Popular Mythology 57
Common Sayings 57
How Myths Influence the Humanities 61
Key Terms 64
Topics for Writing and Discussion 65
Chapter 12
Happiness 482
Overview 483
Hedonism: Happiness as Pleasure 484
Hedonist Assumptions 487
Hedonism Reconsidered 488
Epicureanism: Happiness as Avoidance of Pain 489
Epicurean Assumptions 489
Epicureanism Reconsidered 492
Stoicism: Happiness as a Strategy for Survival 493
Working on the Mind 494
Stoicism Reconsidered 496
Aristotelianism: Happiness as the Quality of
a Whole Lifetime 497
Pleasure a Limited Goal;Happiness a Complete Goal 498
Providing Happiness: A Government’s
Responsibility? 499
Aristotle Reconsidered 501
Eastern Philosophy and Happiness 505
Gandhi 505
Buddhist Paths to Happiness: Hinayana and
Mahayana 506
The Dalai Lama 508
Chronology 500
Archetypes 507
Key Terms 510
Topics for Writing and Discussion 511
Chapter 7
Theater 242
Overview 243
Conventions of Theater 243
Conventions of Classical Theater 244
Elizabethan Conventions 246
Neoclassical Conventions 251
Victorian Conventions 253
Modern Conventions 257
Tragedy 259
Greek Tragedy 260
Shakespearean Tragedy 264
Neoclassical Tragedy 266
Modern Tragedy 266
Melodrama and Tragedy: A Contrast 268
Comedy 269
Farce 269
Satire and Parody 272
The Comedy of Character 274
Theater of Ideas 276
Ibsen 276
Shaw 279
Naturalism 279
Chekhov 279
The Family Theme 281
A Theatrical Century of Dynamic Change 283
The Modern Theater of Ideas 283
Racial Themes 285
Gay Rights 287
Eastern Theater and Its Influence 289
Behind the Scenes 290
Chronology 278
Archetypes 282
Key Terms 293
Topics for Writing and Discussion 295
Chapter 8
Song and Dance 296
Overview 297
Opera and Operetta 298
Monteverdi 298
Classical Opera 300
Mozart 300
Romantic Opera 304
Wagner 306
Modern American Opera 308
Treemonish 309
Showboat: An Operatta 309
Porgy and Bess 310
Nixon in China 311
The Peking Opera 313
The Broadway Musical 314
Of Thee I Sing 314
Pal Joey 317
Oklahoma 319
West Side Story 320
Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street 321
The Lion King 322
Dance 324
Ballet 326
Modern Dance 328
Folkloric Tradition 333
Chronology 316
Archetypes 326
Key Terms 336
Topics for Writing and Discussion 327
Chapter 6
Music 200
Overview 201
The Basic Elements of Music 203
Tone 203
Scale 203
Rhythm 205
Melody 207
Harmony and the Orchestra 209
Silence 211
The Varieties of Musical Experience 212
A Bach Fugue 212
A Beethoven Symphony 214
Art Songs 218
Folk Songs 219
The Spiritual 225
Ragtime 226
Jazz 227
Blues 229
Popular Songs 230
Rock 232
Hip-Hop 236
World Music 237
Avant-garde Music 238
Chronology 220
Archetypes 231
Key Terms 240
Topics for Writing and Discussion 241
Chapter 5
Art 140
Overview 141
The Need to Imitate 143
Let Me See! 145
Styles and Media 147
Creating Likeness in Different Styles 147
Classical Art 148
Medieval Art 153
Giotto 155
Renaissance Art 156
Leonardo 157
Michelangelo 160
Raphael 162
Two Women of the Post-Renaissance 164
Rembrandt: The Perfection of Likeness 164
A Rebellion Against Perfect Likeness 165
Goya 166
Impressionism 168
American Impressionism 169
Post-Impressionism 170
Art as Alteration 172
The Sixty-ninth Regiment Armory Show, 1913 174
Cubism: Picasso and Braque 177
Unreal Realism 181
Superrealism 185
Camera and Computer Art 187
Pop Art 189
Performance Art 190
Architecture as Art 191
Religious Architecture 192
Secular Architecture 193
Chronology 172
Archetypes 176
Key Terms 197
Art Movements and Styles 198
Topics for Writing and Discussion 199