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Lesson 03: Prehistory - Our Connection To The History Of Humankind Before Text, Marie Porterfield

Art Appreciation Open Educational Resource

This lesson covers prehistoric art from the Paleolithic and Neolithic Ages. It focuses on cave art (Pech-Merle, Chauvet-Pont-d’Arc, Lascaux) and carved figures (Woman of Willendorf) from the Paleolithic period and megalithic architecture (Stonehenge) from the Neolithic period.

Lesson 04: Death And Mourning In The Prehistoric And Ancient World, Marie Porterfield

Art Appreciation Open Educational Resource

This lesson covers death and mourning in the prehistoric and ancient world by discussing related art and architecture including, but not limited to, Varna Necropolis, The Flood Tablet / The Gilgamesh Tablet, Ziggurat in Uruk, Royal Tombs of Ur, Great Pyramids of Giza, Tomb of King Tutankhamun, and Book of the Dead of Hunefer.

Lesson 10: The Northern Renaissance And Arnolfini Double Portrait, Marie Porterfield

Art Appreciation Open Educational Resource

This lesson covers artworks created during the Northern Renaissance with a focus on Jan van Eyck’s Arnolfini Double Portrait.

Lesson 02: Elements And Principles, Marie Porterfield

Art Appreciation Open Educational Resource

This lesson covers the elements and principles of art. Elements of art are the physical parts of the work, including line, shape, form, space, texture, value, color, and time. Principles of art are the ways in which those parts are arranged, including unity/variety, balance, contrast, emphasis, movement, rhythm, and pattern.

Lesson 08: The Renaissance, Marie Porterfield

Art Appreciation Open Educational Resource

This lesson covers artworks created during the Renaissance in Europe. It begins with a preface on artworks created prior to the Renaissance that focused on Christian ideology and iconography. Artists discussed include Botticelli, Donatello, Michelangelo, Bernini, and Leonardo da Vinci.

Lesson 06: Divine Architecture, Marie Porterfield

Art Appreciation Open Educational Resource

This lesson covers divine architecture including the Ancient Greek Parthenon, Ancient Roman Pantheon, Byzantine Hagia Sophia, and Gothic Chartres Cathedral.

Lesson 05: Ideal Beauty In The Ancient World, Marie Porterfield

Art Appreciation Open Educational Resource

This lesson covers ideal beauty in the ancient world by discussing related art and architecture from Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome.

Lesson 07: The History Of Blue, Marie Porterfield

Art Appreciation Open Educational Resource

This lesson covers the history of Lapis Lazuli and Tyrian Purple in art and architecture.

Lesson 11: Bosch And Other Scenes Of The Apocalypse, Marie Porterfield

Art Appreciation Open Educational Resource

This lesson covers artworks of scenes from the apocalypse with a focus on Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights.

Lesson 09: Michelangelo- From High Renaissance To Mannerism, Marie Porterfield

Art Appreciation Open Educational Resource

This lesson covers artworks created between the High Renaissance and Mannerism with a focus on Michelangelo.

Lesson 17 Part 1: Reactions To The Modern World-Introduction And Impressionism, Marie Porterfield

Art Appreciation Open Educational Resource

This lessons covers the difference between impressionism and expressionism. Impressionism is represented through artworks by Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Mary Cassatt, and Edgar Degas.

Lesson 15: Fragonard Through The French Revolution, Marie Porterfield

Art Appreciation Open Educational Resource

This lessons covers Rococo artworks by Jean-Honoré Fragonard and Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun and Neoclassical artworks by Jacques Louis David.

Lesson 18: On The Dada Of Art Versus The Dada Of War, Marie Porterfield

Art Appreciation Open Educational Resource

This lesson covers Dada with a focus on artists Hugo Ball, Marcel Duchamp, Hannah Höch and surrealism with a focus on artists Meret Oppenheim, Man Ray, Salvador Dali.

Lesson 14: Judith And The Heroines Of Baroque Art, Marie Porterfield

Art Appreciation Open Educational Resource

This lesson covers Baroque artworks by Michelangelo da Caravaggio, Artemisia Gentileschi, and Gianlorenzo Bernini.

Lesson 12: Hans Holbein And Kerry James Marshall, Marie Porterfield

Art Appreciation Open Educational Resource

This lesson connects Han Holbein’s The Ambassadors to Kerry James Marshall’s School of Beauty.

Lesson 19: The Unraveling - Abstraction In The Modern Era, Marie Porterfield

Art Appreciation Open Educational Resource

This lesson covers cubism, abstract expressionism, and minimalism. Cubism is discussed with artworks by Pablo Picasso, abstract expressionism by Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and Mark Rothko, and minimalism by Donald Judd.

Lesson 23: The Postmodern Body In Art, Marie Porterfield

Art Appreciation Open Educational Resource

This lesson covers postmodern art that incorporates the body by artists Marina Abramović, Gonzalez-Torres, Nick Cave, and Wangechi Mutu.

Lesson 20: Soup Cans! Consumerism! Balloon Dogs! - From Andy Warhol To Jeff Koons, Marie Porterfield

Art Appreciation Open Educational Resource

This lesson covers pop art by Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Andy Warhol, and Jeff Koons.

Lesson 17 Part 2: Reactions To The Modern World-Post-Impressionism And Expressionism, Marie Porterfield

Art Appreciation Open Educational Resource

This lessons covers the difference between impressionism and expressionism. Post-impressionism is represented through artworks by Vincent Van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Paul Cèzanne, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Expressionism is represented through artworks by Edvard Munch, Henri Matisse, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, and Vassily Kandinsky.

Lesson 21: Vision And Abstraction By Female Artists, Marie Porterfield

Art Appreciation Open Educational Resource

This lesson covers female artists including Judy Chicago, Hilma af Klint, Georgia O’Keeffe, Frida Kahlo, Remedios Varo, Agnes Martin, Louise Bourgeois, and Yayoi Kusama.

Lesson 22: Postmodernism, Marie Porterfield

Art Appreciation Open Educational Resource

This lesson covers postmodernism with a focus on artists Cindy Sherman, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, James Turrell, Damien Hirst, Nam June Paik, Kehinde Wiley, and Bruce Nauman.

Lesson 24: Converging Histories - The Global Art World, Marie Porterfield

Art Appreciation Open Educational Resource

This lesson covers contemporary artists that incorporate artistic traditions specific to the histories of various geographic regions including Mariko Mori, Ai Weiwei, Raqib Shaw, Shirin Neshat, Muzaffar 'Ali, Takashi Murakami, El Anatsui.

Lost & Found: New Harvest, Owen Gottlieb, Ian Schreiber

Presentations and other scholarship

Lost & Found is a strategy card-to-mobile game series that teaches medieval religious legal systems with attention to period accuracy and cultural and historical context.

Set in Fustat (Old Cairo) in the 12th century, a great crossroads of Islam, Judaism, and Christianity. The Lost & Found games project seeks to expand the discourse around religious legal systems, to enrich public conversations in a variety of communities, and to promote greater understanding of the religious traditions that build the fabric of the United States. Comparative religious literacy can build bridges between and within communities and prepare learners to be responsible citizens …

Moving Parts, Andrew Lowrie

Theses and Dissertations

Material bodies, human and non-human, exist in a constant state of doing and undoing. As bodies change over time, so too do the objects they wear. In this way, a jewelry object is never finished and is constantly being made. In contemporary art practice, this is described as relational ontology by Amelia Jones, who reaches this terminology through the eco-political writings of Jane Bennett and Karen Barad. Through this framework we are able to understand the way artists like Gabriel Orozco and Helen Carnac resist the notion of a finished object or artwork. By engaging with the ways that process …

V.1 Winter 2020, Center For Arts & Language, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

All Student Newspapers

v.1 is a publishing platform for the ongoing work, ideas, discussions, debates, and aspirations of students at the Rhode Island School of Design. The Winter 2020 issue contains articles on cultural touchstones, family memories, reality tv in paradise, and cultural artifacts in Italy, along with student creative writing.

Exhibition "Louisiana's Natural Treasure: Margaret Stones, Botanical Artist", Leah Wood Jewett, John D. Miles, Christina Riquelmy

Special Collections

In 2020, LSU Libraries Special Collections presented the exhibition “Louisiana’s Natural Treasure: Margaret Stones, Botanical Artist” at Hill Memorial Library, featuring selected original watercolor paintings and archival materials related to the Native Flora of Louisiana project.

A native of Australia, Margaret Stones (1920-2018) achieved an acclaimed international career that spanned three continents. Commissioned by LSU and funded by private donations, more than 200 watercolor drawings of Louisiana plants produced by Stones during the 1970s and 1980s are among the most treasured holdings of LSU Libraries Special Collections.

The Native Flora of Louisiana project was grounded in a long historical tradition …

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S. R. Koehler And The Etching Revival In The United States: Toward An “American” Tradition Of Printmaking, Katie Larson

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The Drop Sinister: Harry Wilson Watrous’ Visualization Of The One-Drop Rule, Mey-Yen Moriuchi

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When William T. Wiley And Bruce Nauman Wrote To H.C. Westermann, David Mccarthy

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