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OER Subject Guides

This guide is a collection of Open Educational Resources across disciplines relevant to the Touro College community. A work-in-progress!

Introduction to Art

introduction to art textbookIntroduction to Art: Design, Context, and Meaning

Introduction to Art: Design, Context, and Meaning offers a comprehensive introduction to the world of Art. Authored by four USG faculty members with advance degrees in the arts, this textbooks offers up-to-date original scholarship. It includes over 400 high-quality images illustrating the history of art, its technical applications, and its many uses.
Combining the best elements of both a traditional textbook and a reader, it introduces such issues in art as its meaning and purpose; its meaning and purpose; its structure, material, and form; and its diverse effects on our lives. Its digital nature allows students to follow links to applicable sources and videos, expanding the students’ educational experiences beyond the textbook. Introduction to Art: Design, Context, and Meaning provides a new and free alternative to traditional textbooks, making it an invaluable resource in our modern age of technology and advancement.

Art Appreciation

art appreciation textbookArt Appreciation

Art Appreciation, by Lumen, includes resources copyrighted and openly licensed by multiple individuals and organizations. Click the words "Licenses and Attributions" at the bottom of each page for copyright and licensing information specific to the material on that page.

Graphic Design and Print Production Fundamentals

Art History

Art History

'Art is that which elevates our interpretation of the world and of ourselves from simple description or narrative to the sublime. Art occurs when images and objects, sights and sounds, or drawings and carvings convey the beauty and splendor of the world, or a realized imagination of an artist, for the purpose of self-expression or the shared enjoyment of its creation.'  This is a wikibook that is a survey of art history from Prehistoric Art to The 20th Century Art.

This work is licensed under a Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States

 

smART History

Now hosted by Khan Academy, smART History is a free multi-media web-book designed as a dynamic enhancement (or even substitute) for the traditional and static art history textbook. According to the site 'We understand the history of humanity through art. From prehistoric depictions of woolly mammoths to contemporary abstraction, artists have addressed their time and place in history and have expressed universal human truths for tens of thousands of years. Learn what made Rome great, how Islamic tile work evolved, why the Renaissance happened, and about the brilliant art being produced today around the globe. 

 

Boundless Art History

'The Boundless Art History textbook is a college-level, introductory textbook that provides an overview of the culturally rich subject of Art History from pre-history through to modern global art.  Boundless works with subject matter experts to select the best open educational resources available on the web, review the content for quality, and create introductory, college-level textbooks designed to meet the study needs of university students. 

This work is licensed under a Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States

 

A Text-Book of the History of Painting

"This textbook provides concise teachable history of painting for class-room use in schools and colleges. In treating of individual painters it has been thought best to give a short critical estimate of the man and his rank among the painters of his time rather than the detailed facts of his life."

This textbook resides in the public domain.

 

Art History WikiBook

Text is available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License

 

A World Perspective of Art Appreciation (Gustlin and Gustlin)

Written by faculty members at Evergreen Valley College; licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0

 

Western Art from 18th to Mid-20th Century (Taylor)

Written by a faculty member at Whatcom Community College; licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0

Institutional Critique

institutional critique textbook

Art and Contemporary Critical Practice: Reinventing Institutional Critique

'‘Institutional critique’ is best known through the critical practice that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s by artists who presented radical challenges to the museum and gallery system. Since then it has been pushed in new directions by new generations of artists registering and responding to the global transformations of contemporary life. The essays collected in this volume explore this legacy and develop the models of institutional critique in ways that go well beyond the field of art. Interrogating the shifting relations between ‘institutions’ and ‘critique’, the contributors to this volume analyze the past and present of institutional critique and propose lines of future development.
 

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