Reprint of Jose Arguelles' widely-acclaimed art and cultural history/planetary treatise. Originally published in 1975, this edition includes a new introduction and full-color cover painting that tie the author's past work to his on-going efforts. The exploration of the split between science and art and the author's call for uniting these two aspects into wholeness within our fragile total environment has perhaps more relevance now than at the time the book was first published.