Includes religious texts and background biographies of key religious figures
Author: Selena Silva-Ortega
“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Reviewer’s note: a very basic, somewhat outdated, text, based largely on Wikipedia and with some formatting and/or accessibility issues.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 »
“This text offers a comprehensive introduction to the world of Art. Authored by four USG faculty members with advanced degrees in the arts, this textbook offers up-to-date original scholarship. It includes over 400 high-quality images illustrating the history of art, its technical applications, and its many uses. Combining the best elements of both a traditional …
Introduction to Art: Design, Context, and Meaning (Sachant et al.) (CC BY-SA)Read More »
“We are a diverse society, and our college population represents that diversity. This is a more representational textbook that students can identify with based on their ethnic experiences, presented in a time sequence. This Art Appreciation (ARTH 100) textbook includes multiple civilizations worldwide with a better art distribution. Some of the art will be well-known, …
A World Perspective of Art Appreciation (Gustlin and Gustlin) (CC BY-NC-SA)Read More »