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Arts, Humanities

Open Courseware and Resources (general)

- 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.
(Wikipedia)

Arts and Humanities (general) - Resource Page

Prime Sites

  • California University (US), Voice of the Shuttle, Web Page for Humanities Research - structured & briefly annotated guide to online resources respecting established humanities disciplines in their professional organization pointing to transformation as they interact with the sciences, social sciences & new digital media: general humanities resources, anthropology, archaeology, architecture, area & regional studies, art, art history, studies (classical, cultural, media, minority, religious), cyberculture, dance, gender & sexuality studies, history, legal studies, literature, literary theory, music, philosophy, photography, politics & government, postindustrial business theory, science, technology, & culture, technology of writing, resources (academe, teaching, libraries & museums, reference, journals & zines, publishers & booksellers, listservs & newsgroups, conferences, travel), news

  • Intute (UK), Humanities - web resources by team of subject specialists to help with studies and research: General humanities, Archaeology, Classics, English, Gender studies, History, History and philosophy of science, Humanities computing, Islamic studies, Jewish studies, Linguistics, Manuscript studies, Museum, library and archive studies, Philosophy, Religion and theology

Other Sites

Art and Photo History

olinda.com (AU)

beginnings of Photography, Early Portraiture (JMC and Nadar), landscape in painting and photography, Photography and documentation, Art Objects, Depicting movement and Futurism, Impressionism and post-impressionism, Art photography, Colour Photography, Matisse and Picasso, Dada and Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, Pop art, Australian Photography since the 1970's, Digital Photography: Suggested reading

Helen Langdon's ‘Caravaggio’

Open University (UK), LearningSpace

biographical monograph about single artist's life and work, focusing on the way that one author, Helen Langdon, has used biography in her book about one artist, Caravaggio, methods used to approach her subject and the different kinds of primary sources available to her, how an artist's work relates to his or her life, exploring methods to construct her biography and how sources employed, ways an artist's life can help explain the art, other ways of interpreting works of art with those contained within a biographical structure, possibilities and limitations of biographical monograph

Napoleonic Paintings

Open University (UK), OpenLearn

Paintings at the Louvre, portrait of Napoleon, Gros and the Napoleonic propaganda machine, The Decennial Competition of 1810

Introduction to Humanities

Dixie State OpenCourseWare (US)

significant ideas, art forms, philosophies, and scientific developments in Western culture since the renaissance. Discussions focus on the way human view their relationship with the past, with the future, with God, with nature, with other humans, and with themselves: appendices, course download

Introduction to the Visual Arts

MIT (US), OpenCourseWare

contemporary art practices and ideas, overview of 'visual language' by looking at a variety of artworks and discussing basic concepts revolving around artistic practice, notions of the real/unreal as explored with various mediums and practices, video, sculpture and in public space: readings, student projects

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

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