“This book aims to act as your map through the world of African art. As such, it will help you define the competencies you need to develop–visual analysis, research, noting what information is critical, asking questions, and writing down your observations–and provide opportunities for you to practice these skills until you are proficient. It will …
The Bright Continent: African Art History (Kathy Curnow) (CC BY-NC-SA)Read More »
Reviewer’s note: the PDF version of this text appears to have been scanned from the print version, and thus isn’t accessible.
Includes religious texts and background biographies of key religious figures
“Reframing Art History, an open-access multimedia art history ‘textbook,’ gives you a guided journey through the living, breathing, meaningful side of art history. We’re less concerned with names and dates than with meaning and movement. With chapters developed by a group of more than 40 experts, it showcases art and history from the bottom up.”Reviewers’ …
Reframing Art History (Smarthistory) (CC-BY-NC-SA)Read More »
Art history uses multiple art disciplines to study culture and people’s development through time. Visual arts are one of the oldest forms of communication between humans and the fundamental beliefs of their culture. The background of art history has been written from the canon of wealthy individuals from Western countries, focusing on well-known art and …
Reviewer’s note: Volume 2 picks up where Volume 1 leaves off and covers material from Late Antiquity through Hogarth’s Marriage a la Mode. Volume 3 begins with Cabrera’s, Portrait of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and ends with Venturi, Rausch and Scott Brown’s House in New Castle County.
Reviewer’s note: a very basic, somewhat outdated, text, based largely on Wikipedia and with some formatting and/or accessibility issues. May be helpful for filling small gaps in other resources.
“This courseware includes resources copyrighted and openly licensed by multiple individuals and organizations. Click the words ‘Licenses and Attributions’ at the bottom of each page for copyright and licensing information specific to the material on that page.”Reviewer’s note: arguably the weakest of the full-text resources presented here, but may give a starting point for some …
SUNY’s Art History and Appreciation I (Lumen Learning) (License Varies)Read More »
“This glossary contains over 250 key terms and is illustrated with more than 100 images. A few of the key terms are repeated to give a different context to the term with each use. In such cases, a different illustration may be used, in keeping with the culture and time period under which the key …
ASCCC OERI ARTH 110—Glossary Project on Canvas (Lynch) (CC BY-NC 4.0)Read More »