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Arts, Humanities

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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.
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About The Humanities

The humanities include ancient and modern languages, literature, history, philosophy, religion, and visual and performing arts such as music and theatre.

Humanities that are also regarded as social sciences include technology, history, anthropology, area studies, communication studies, cultural studies, law and linguistics.

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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

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

Goya

Open University (UK), OpenLearn

What influenced Goya? Did Napoleon's invasion of Spain alter the course of Goya's career? works of Goya and the influences of the times in which he lived

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

History of Western Art and Civilization

Connexions

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

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

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