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Humanities

- those academic disciplines which study the human condition, using methods that are largely analytic, critical, or speculative, as distinguished from the mainly empirical approaches of the natural and social sciences

Examples of the disciplines related to humanities are ancient and modern languages, literature, history, philosophy, religion, visual and performing arts (including music). Additional subjects sometimes included in the humanities are anthropology, area studies, communications and cultural studies, although these are often regarded as social sciences. Scholars working in the humanities are sometimes described as "humanists" - Wikipedia.

Arts

- a broad subdivision of culture, composed of many expressive disciplines. In modern usage, it is a term broader than "art", which usually means the visual arts (comprising both fine art, decorative art, and crafts). The arts encompasses visual arts, performing arts, language arts, culinary arts, and physical arts. Many artistic disciplines involve aspects of the various arts, so the definitions of these terms overlap to some degree - Wikipedia.

Sensing Place: Photography as Inquiry

MIT OpenCourseWare (US)

eight guest lectures on video (explores photography as a disciplined way of seeing, of investigating landscapes and expressing ideas, Readings, observations, and photographs form the basis of discussions on landscape, light, significant detail, place, poetics, narrative and how photography can inform design and planning, among other issues): readings, projects
 

Wolfram Demonstrations Project

Wolfram Research

brings computational exploration to the widest possible audience, open-code resource that uses dynamic computation to illuminate concepts, free player runs all demos: Browse Latest, Random Selection, FAQs, Authoring area

Art of the Ancient Mediterranean

Boston College (US)

major art works & monuments of ancient Near East (primarily Mesopotamia), Egypt & Classical Greece, sculpture, pottery, seals, architectural remains & wall painting of these cultures, understanding of those civilizations, political & religious ideologies that shaped them, evolution of their art styles

History of Western Art and Civilization

Connexions

Italy, Florence and Tuscany, The Medici Family, Copernican System, Ptolemaic System, Johannes Kepler, Galileo's Telescope

Introduction to the History of Art

Rice University (US)

prehistory to the late middle ages: resources (ancient European and Mediterranean studies, museums, maps)

20th Century Art

MIT (US), OpenCourseWare

critical examination of major developments in European and American art during past century, surveys art's engagements with modernization, radical politics, utopianism, mass culture, changing conceptions of mind & human nature, new technologies, colonialism and postcolonialism & other significant aspects of recent history: readings, related resources

Philosophy and the Arts

Minnesota State University (US)

extended examination of the nature and value of art and artistic activity: interpretation, definitions of art, value of art, postmodernism, taste, beauty, imagination, expression & emotion, art & ethics, fakes & forgeries, film, photography, music

Art, Metaphor and Life

Sauk Valley Community College (US)

to become familiar with representative examples of the Arts of the Western European tradition, understand the necessity for the Arts, master, to some degree style of thinking most often applied to studying the Arts, understand the Arts as a cultural practice

Lectures

Werner Hammerstingl (AU)

relationships between our collective social and cultural structures and the individual: visual communication, art & ideas, photo history, html & webdesign, Art and Photo History, photography master workshops, Media Theory, Suggested reading list

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