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Teaching Arts Since 1950
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This teaching packet discusses artistic movements of the late 20th century, including abstract expressionism, pop art, minimalism, conceptualism, process art, neo-expressionism, and postmodernism, with attention to their critical reception and theoretical bases. The packet considers works by 27 painters and sculptors including Jackson Pollock, Jasper Johns, Mark Rothko, David Smith, Martin Puryear, Anselm Kiefer, Susan Rothenberg, and Roy Lichtenstein (see full list below).

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Art History
Visual Arts
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Diagram/Illustration
Reading
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Provider:
National Gallery of Art
Author:
Carla Brenner
Date Added:
02/16/2011
The Art of Romare Bearden
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The visual narratives and abstractions of this preeminent African American artist explore the places where he lived and worked: the rural South, Pittsburgh, Harlem, and the Caribbean. Bearden's central themes: religion, jazz and blues, history, literature, and the realities of black life he endured throughout his remarkable career in watercolors, oils, and especially collages and photomontages from the 1940s through the 1980s.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Art History
Visual Arts
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Diagram/Illustration
Reading
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Textbook
Provider:
National Gallery of Art
Date Added:
09/19/2013
Introduction to Art History I: An OER Textbook for Survey of Western Art from Prehistory through the Middle Ages
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This textbook, designed specifically for C-ID ARTH 110 and produced by a team of art historians working within the CCC system, curates Smarthistory and other scholarly resources into a coherent textbook by providing chapter introductions, a comprehensive glossary, and explanatory editors’ notes. Throughout, it acknowledges and explores the historiography of art history and brings in global connections to provide a broader, more diverse, and more inclusive survey of art history from the Paleolithic through Gothic periods.

Subject:
Art History
Visual Arts
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
LibreTexts
Author:
Alice J. Taylor
Cerise Myers
Ellen C. Caldwell
Lisa Soccio
Margaret Phelps
Date Added:
12/13/2022
Guide to Byzantine Art
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The “Beginner’s guide” introduces foundational concepts, such as the chronology of Byzantine history, sacred imagery, and wearable objects. Subsequent sections are arranged chronologically, covering the Early Byzantine period (c. 330–700), the Iconoclastic Controversy (c. 700s–843), the Middle Byzantine period (843–1204), the Latin Empire (c. 1204–1261), and the Late Byzantine period (c. 1261–1453) and beyond.

These sections include thematic essays on Byzantine art and architecture, essays that focus on key works (subtitled artworks in focus or architecture in focus), and essays that explore Byzantium’s relationships with other cultures (subtitled cross-cultural perspectives). Finally, we have included questions for study or discussion to encourage teachers, students, and other readers to engage with videos and other content on the Smarthistory website which could not be included in this book format but which we believe richly compliments what is presented here.

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Art History
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
Smarthistory
Author:
Anne McClanan
Evan Freeman
Date Added:
11/18/2021
Art History I
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Herkimer Community College

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History of Art Survey course covering from prehistoric art to the Italian Renaissance. Cover image Lascaux Cave_France

Word Count: 88398

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Subject:
Visual Arts
Material Type:
Textbook
Author:
Bruce Schwabach
Date Added:
10/11/2021
A World Perspective of Art Appreciation
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“An OER text to cover world art on a timeline from prehistoric to modern times with an emphasis on female artists.”Reviewer’s note: this text focuses much more on a chronological, art historical approach than other texts that divide the course into thirds, with the first third covering visual elements and principles of design, the second third covering two- and three-dimensional media, and only the final third giving a brief overview of art history.

Subject:
Art History
Visual Arts
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
LibreTexts
Author:
Deborah Gustlin
Zoe Gustlin
Date Added:
12/13/2022
The Bright Continent: African Art History
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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 also expose you to new art forms and the worlds that produced them, enriching your understanding and appreciation.

Subject:
Visual Arts
World Cultures
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
Cleveland State University
Provider Set:
Michael Schwartz Library Pressbooks
Author:
Kathy Curnow
Date Added:
01/03/2020
Understanding New Media Art
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Short Description:
Understanding New Media Art is an OER for introductory college art and art history courses that builds on scholarship in the field to propose a long historical context for the technologies and ideas related to New Media Art in the 21st century.

Long Description:
Understanding New Media Art is an OER for introductory college art and art history courses. The book builds on scholarship in the field to propose a long historical context for the technologies and ideas related to New Media Art in the 21st century. This OER is a work in progress and will be updated and expanded periodically as technologies change, new creative approaches and voices develop, and new historical and theoretical frameworks are proposed in the evolving field of New Media Art.

Word Count: 80895

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Graphic Arts
Visual Arts
Material Type:
Textbook
Author:
Christine M. Weber
Elizabeth Bilyeu
Kelsey Ferriera
Luke Peterson
Date Added:
06/27/2022
Exploring the Arts: A Brief Introduction to Art, Theatre, Music, and Dance
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This text explores the visual and performing arts (art, music, dance, theatre).
Chapter 1: Elements, Vocabulary, and Iconography of Visual Art
Chapter 2: Mediums in Visual Art
Chapter 3: Ancient Arts (Prehistoric, Ancient Near East, Egyptian)
Chapter 4: Classical Period to Middle Ages
Chapter 5: Renaissance to Realism
Chapter 6: Impressionism to Modern
Chapter 7: An Introduction to the Theater and its Elements
Chapter 8: The Greek Origins of Western Theater
Chapter 9: Technical Theater
Chapter 10: The Actor's Craft
Chapter 11: Other Theater Traditions
Chapter 12: Introduction to Music
Chapter 13: Music in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Chapter 14: Baroque and Classical Music
Chapter 15: Music of the Romantic Era
Chapter 16: Music of the 20th Century
Chapter 17: Introduction to Dance
Chapter 18: Elements of Dance
Chapter 19: Dance History and Styles

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Performing Arts
Visual Arts
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
Affordable Learning LOUISiana
Author:
Darius Spieth
Doris Hall
Kimberly Berkeley
Laura Kamath
Marty Miller (Editor)
Nubia Nurain Khan
Date Added:
01/14/2023
Foundation Drawing for Art 1100
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Short Description:
Foundation Drawing for Art 1100 serves as the primary text for the course of the same name at the UNO School of the Arts.

Word Count: 13003

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Subject:
Architecture and Design
Visual Arts
Material Type:
Textbook
Date Added:
03/11/2022
Art Appreciation
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Word Count: 117601

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Subject:
Visual Arts
Material Type:
Textbook
Author:
Bruce Schwabach
Date Added:
11/12/2021
American Encounters: Art, History, and Cultural Identity
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American Encounters provides a narrative of the history of American art that focuses on historical encounters among diverse cultures, upon broad structural transformations such as the rise of the middle classes and the emergence of consumer and mass culture, and on the fluid conversations between "high" art and vernacular expressions. The text emphasizes the intersections among cultures and populations, as well as the exchanges, borrowings, and appropriations that have enriched and vitalized our collective cultural heritage.

Subject:
Art History
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
Washington University Libraries
Author:
Angela L Miller
Bryan J Wolf
Janet Catherine Berlo
Jennifer L Roberts
Date Added:
06/15/2022
History of Modern Art
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Word Count: 164886

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Subject:
Art History
Material Type:
Textbook
Date Added:
01/26/2024
Where Does Art Come From?
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Short Description:
Who am I? What is beautiful? Where do babies come from? These questions populate our lives and inform our perceptions of the world. Explore these questions according to the expressions of artists from all over the world. Go beyond Western art to consider where art comes from and how it impacts all of us.

Long Description:
Contributors to this open textbook offer relatable descriptions, details, and contexts of artworks from around the world, which have often been relegated to the peripheries of art and social history. Art traditions from Africa, Oceania, South and Southeast Asia, Islamicate regions, East Asia, and the indigenous Americas (before colonization) are prioritized to challenge the long-held view that “real art” only comes from the West. Introductory discussions of the history of art history and geographic conventions set the stage for considering the larger question, “where does art come from,” and other questions such as, “why haven’t I heard much about art from Africa, Oceania, etc.?” This book takes a pluralistic approach, forefronting diversity and interconnectedness. Scholars and students collaborated to produce this book. Student contributions will continue to improve the text and interactivity as it evolves. A scavenger hunt of student-made “easter eggs” builds a thread of engagement and humor throughout the book. Make sure to find them all!

Word Count: 129658

ISBN: 978-1-64816-004-2

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Subject:
Art History
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
Mavs Open Press
Author:
Leah McCurdy
Date Added:
08/12/2022
19th Century European Art History
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Short Histories of Major Art Movements and Select Artists from ART 305

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Part textbook, part shared knowledge, this book is the co-creation of the instructor and students of Red Deer Polytechnic's ART 305, 19th Century European Art History class.

Long Description:
What happens when a class shares their collective knowledge about their subject, rather than hiding it away and stuffing it down in individual memory? A textbook that is formed by the meeting of the minds!

As part of the ART 305 19th Century European Art History move to online during the pandemic, a collective project was born: creating a digital open-education resource, free to any who choose to access it, and a way for the individuals in class to be part of a greater community in an online learning environment.

With some chapters authored by the instructor of the class and others created by the students as a result of their term’s research, this text is a growing document that will encompass past, present, and future learners as their collective body of knowledge grows.

Within the parameters of 19th Century European Art History this text begins with the influence and beginnings of change during the Rococo era in France and progresses through time until the beginning of the 20th century. Each chapter marks a specific era or a specific artist and chapters are individually authored.

Word Count: 136177

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Subject:
Art History
Material Type:
Textbook
Date Added:
01/01/2022
Introduction to Art Concepts
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Word Count: 85226

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Subject:
Visual Arts
Material Type:
Textbook
Author:
Ed Fosmire
Santa Ana College
Date Added:
11/12/2021
Survey of Western Art History I
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Open lab manual workbook for students in Survey of Western Art History I at University of Nebraska Omaha. This project was funded by the Affordable Content Grants program at UNO Libraries.

Word Count: 26623

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Subject:
Art History
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
University of Nebraska Omaha
Date Added:
01/05/2022
Art History II
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Word Count: 115326

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Subject:
Visual Arts
Material Type:
Textbook
Author:
Bruce Schwabach
Date Added:
10/11/2021
Make Work Use Art
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Art as a Tool for Creating Change

Short Description:
Students present their reflections on the politics and practice of making. Individually, each essay and letter addressed to a historical artist is full of valuable information and great insights. Collectively, these are also an honest and valuable document of the moment: Us, wrestling with the realignment of past, present, and future of why and how to make objects, how to find freedom within tradition, and how to reimagine a more conscientious making practice for ourselves and a more meaningful life for our objects.

Long Description:
Twenty students from a wide variety of majors, including the sciences, humanities, health and medicine, as well as engineering, architecture, and design comprised our vibrant and engaged learning community. We started the quarter by imaginary visits to two important art schools, the German Bauhaus (1919-1933) and the Black Mountain College, located near Asheville, North Carolina (1933-1957). The students co-created participatory collaborative exercises based on the experiential learning principles developed by and practiced at these schools.

Throughout the course, we considered craft and art not as nouns, but as verbs, related the practiced maker’s hand to the process aided by technological tools, and focused on the language of the materials, and the personal, cultural, historical narratives that they help to reveal. We contemplated how individual threads hold the fabric together and transform that, and how individual narratives coalesce into larger histories that signify and hold together communities. We strived to explore and understand both the historical past and the innovative present and future by specifically focusing on needlework (sewing, embroidery, and quilts) during the 1920 and ‘30s (women suffrage movement), the 1970s and ‘80s (second wave of feminism, LGBTQ rights and HIV/AIDS crisis), and in the present. We also considered how new technologies, such as parametric design and 3D printing, introduce new paradigms for solving problems, designing, producing, and using objects. Of course, the effect of technology was inescapable for us in the class too, as it was for billions around the world during this global pandemic.

We made two projects. One, using needlework techniques and textile processes to tell a personal story of Waiting, and a second one, using Computer Aided Design (CAD) to create a Time Capsule which would be opened one hundred years from now. Throughout the quarter, the students researched a Bauhaus or Black Mountain College artist they had picked with the goal of reflecting on the artist’s work, biography, creative process, and ideas about making by drawing parallels to those of their own.

Word Count: 50553

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Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Visual Arts
Business and Communication
Social Science
Sociology
Material Type:
Reading
Textbook
Provider:
HON211 University of Washington 2021
Author:
HON211 UW 2021
Date Added:
03/21/2021