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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.

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  • 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

Introduction to the Visual Arts

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

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

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

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

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

Introduction to the History of Art

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

20th Century Art

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

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

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