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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
Arts and Humanities
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
Smarthistory
Author:
Anne McClanan
Evan Freeman
Date Added:
09/30/2021
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.

Subject:
Art History
Arts and Humanities
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
Smarthistory
Author:
Anne McClanan
Evan Freeman
Date Added:
06/28/2023
Guide to Italian art in the 1300s
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This book contains all of Smarthistory’s content for Italian art in the 1300s.
Table of Contents
Part I. A Beginner's Guide
Part II. Florence
Part III. Siena
Part IV. Pisa, Pistoia, Rome

Subject:
Art History
Arts and Humanities
Material Type:
Textbook
Author:
Beth Harris
Steve Zucker
Ruth Ezra
Date Added:
04/15/2021
Ideals of the East: The Spirit of Japanese Art
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Written by the foremost authority of the era on Oriental archeology and art, this extremely influential book offers a brief but concise introduction to Asian art. First published in 1883, it responded to a vogue in Western culture for a growing awareness and appreciation of Japanese artistic expressions of beauty and philosophy -- a perspective that remains fresh and valid.Author Kakuzo Okakura (1862-1913) was a co-founder of the Tokyo Fine Art School (now known as Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music) and a curator of Oriental art at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts. He also wrote The Book of Tea, and together with this volume, his writings rank among the most widely read English-language works about Japan. Ideals of the East wrought profound effects on the Western understanding of the internal consistencies and strengths of East Asian aesthetic traditions. One of its major themes, the connections between spirituality and the evolution of Asian art, provided English-speaking people with the earliest lucid account of Zen Buddhism and its relation to the arts.

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Art History
Arts and Humanities
Material Type:
Textbook
Author:
Kakuzo Okakura
Sister Nivedita
Date Added:
09/08/2021
Idols Behind Altars: Modern Mexican Art and Its Cultural Roots
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Art critic, historian and journalist Anita Brenner (1905-1974) is acknowledged to be one of the most important and perceptive writers on the art, culture, and political history of Mexico. Idols Behind Altars is her influential historical and critical study of modern Mexican art and its roots. It was one of the first books to afford Mexican art the same serious considerations as European and Asian art and remains indispensable for anyone interested in the subject. The works of such major figures as Diego Rivera, Jóse Clemente Orozco, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Francisco Goitia and Jean Charlot are examined in the cultural context of pre-Columbian times through the 19th century. Brenner's astute analysis of Mexican history, her keen insights into revolutionary politics, and her passionate advocacy of Mexican art infuse this book with seminal importance. 117 illustrations--including some early photographs by Edward Weston--enhance the text.

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Art History
Arts and Humanities
Material Type:
Textbook
Author:
Anita Brenner
Date Added:
09/08/2021
Introduction To Art
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Introduction to Art is intended for an undergraduate course in art and art history. It incorporates OER material primarily from Saylor Academy and Lumen/Boundless Art History along with original additions by this editor. Educators may use this adaptation as parts of modules or as the entire reading for a course.

Tables of Contents:
I. Media and Techniques
1. Introduction to Art
2. Elements
3. Principles of Design
4. Drawing
5. Painting
6. Printmaking
7. Camera Arts
8. Graphic Design
9. Sculpture and Installation
10. Architecture
11. Modern Architecture

II. Art History Timeline
12. Prehistory
13. Mesopotamia
14. Ancient Egypt
15. Ancient Aegean
16. Ancient Greece
17. Ancient Rome
18. Early Christianity and Byzantine Art
19. Early Islamic Art and Architecture
20. Medieval Europe and the Romanesque
21. Gothic Art and Architecture
22. Early Renaissance
23. High Renaissance
24. Northern Renaissance and Mannerism
25. Baroque Painting
26. Baroque Architecture
27. Golden Age of Dutch Painting
28. The Rococo and Neoclassicism
29. 18th and 19th Century Art
30. Romanticism
31. Realism
32. Manet and the Impressionists
33. Post-Impressionism
34. Early 20th Century in Europe
35. Modernism in America
36. Abstract Expressionism
37. Modern to Postmodern

Subject:
Art History
Arts and Humanities
Material Type:
Textbook
Author:
Muffet Jones
Date Added:
02/08/2024
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
Arts and Humanities
Visual Arts
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
LibreTexts
Author:
Alice J. Taylor
Cerise Myers
Ellen C. Caldwell
Lisa Soccio
Margaret Phelps
Date Added:
06/28/2023
Introduction to the History of Modern Art
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Modern art begins in the middle of the 19th Century, in the 1850s, and lasts until approximately the 1960s. After that, once the vocabulary of modernism has been established and fully explored, the art made in the 1970s and 1980s is called post-modern art. Art made within the last 15-20 years is generally called contemporary art.

Subject:
Art History
Arts and Humanities
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
CUNY Academic Works
Author:
Sharon Jordan
Date Added:
09/08/2021
MUS 108 - Music Cultures of the World
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This course is a survey of the world's music with attention to musical styles and cultural contexts. Included are the musical and cultural histories of Ociania, Indonesia, Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

Course Outcomes:
1. Demonstrate an understanding of diverse peoples, cultural communities, and traditions while reflecting upon and challenging individual and societal ethnocentrism.
2. Describe and discuss music using appropriate terminology relevant for the field of ethnomusicology.
3. Analyze and identify music from a global intercultural perspective using analytical and critical listening skills.
4. Explain artistic, social, historical, and cultural contexts of world music.

Subject:
Art History
Arts and Humanities
Performing Arts
World Cultures
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
Linn-Benton Community College
Author:
Linn Benton Virtual College
Date Added:
09/10/2020
Making “Meaning”: Precolumbian Archaeology, Art History, and the Legacy of Terence Grieder
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The book examines the work of Terence Grieder, an early pre-Columbian art historian of wide-ranging interests and often provocative stances. His students and other intellectual descendants discuss his major ideas through examples drawn from their own work. The work of those he mentored is in the end the most important testament to his continuing influence in the field.

Subject:
Art History
Arts and Humanities
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
University of Houston
Author:
James Farmer
Rex Koontz
Date Added:
07/16/2024
Photographic Visual Diary: Visual Elements of Art and Principles of Composition in Your Daily Life
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This is an introductory project that addresses identifying the Elements of Art and Principles of Composition in immediate surroundings and provides these terms a real-time life application. The project is interactive and exploratory, requiring individual observation of a students' physical world. This project can be modified to include more images, changes in grid template and combined to include both Elements and Principles together; incluiding identifying other terms in art such as mediums. The project can be used in an online formatted course or a face to face environment. Including Art Appreciation, Art Orientation, Two-Dimensional Design and Three-Dimensional Design studio courses. 

Subject:
Architecture and Design
Art History
Graphic Arts
Graphic Design
Visual Arts
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Activity/Lab
Assessment
Homework/Assignment
Author:
Xuchi Eggleton
Date Added:
09/22/2021
Reframing Art History
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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 50 experts, it showcases art and history from the bottom up.

Subject:
Art History
Arts and Humanities
Material Type:
Textbook
Author:
Lauren Kilroy-Ewbank
Date Added:
08/22/2023
Tour the White House in 360 Degrees
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Welcome to the White House 360 Virtual Tour! This immersive experience will bring you inside the halls of the White House and provide access to all the public rooms on the Ground and State Floors. It will also allow you to examine the rooms and objects even closer than you would in person.

This feature was made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring the human endeavor.

Subject:
Applied Science
Architecture and Design
Art History
Arts and Humanities
History
U.S. History
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Primary Source
Author:
White House Historical Association
Date Added:
10/26/2021
The White House: A Video Tour
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Join White House Historical Association historians Dr. Matthew Costello and Lina Mann as they tour the history of the White House in this collection of short videos, made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring human endeavor.

Subject:
Applied Science
Architecture and Design
Art History
Arts and Humanities
English Language Arts
History
Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
U.S. History
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Primary Source
Author:
White House Historical Association
Date Added:
10/26/2021
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
Arts and Humanities
Visual Arts
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
LibreTexts
Author:
Deborah Gustlin
Zoe Gustlin
Date Added:
06/28/2023