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Art Resources
Textbooks
This is an online Open textbook covering prehistoric to 20th-century art around the globe.
MERLOT is a curated collection of free and open online teaching, learning, and faculty development services contributed and used by an international education community.
Openly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS) an OER search database with textbooks, courses and more. It is being developed by SUNY Geneseo's Milne Library. You can conduct a basic search or search by subject. Like all of these OASIS is constantly being added to.
OER Commons provides a curated collection of Art History, Graphic Arts, Performing Arts, and Visual Arts. The collections include materials focused on all K-college levels.
UK publishing imprint that provides free online access and low cost formatted and print access to titles with a special emphasis on humanities, digital humanities, and social sciences.
The BCcampus Open Education OER by Discipline Guide lists a wide range of open educational resources, including textbooks and courses, organized by discipline.
Courses and Videos
Learn about urban design, vernacular architecture, the history of building and more from the best universities and institutions around the world.
Find free online courses in poetry, art history, world cultures, classical art, modern art and European painting from top universities worldwide. Learn the Cultural Geography of the World from Peking University or immerse yourself in Harvard University’s popular Poetry in America series.
Every course on Coursera is taught by top instructors from the world’s best universities and educational institutions. Courses include recorded video lectures, auto-graded and peer-reviewed assignments, and community discussion forums.
Learn about design and more from the best universities and institutions around the world.
Explore film, music, journalism, photography or theatre. Join online art courses from renowned film schools, universities, cultural institutions. Learn from the experts in creative arts and media.
Explore culture, conflict, and the things that make us human. Art courses include "Visions of protest: Graffiti," "Art in Renaissance Venice," and "Dutch painting of the Golden Age."
The Department of the History of Art at Yale offers a wide range of undergraduate and graduate courses in art, architecture, and visual culture in their social and historical contexts.
Collection of PDF versions of textbooks on various topics. HTML versions are also available.
Smart History is a leading resource for the study of art and cultural heritage. The growing collection of videos and essays are designed to be engaging and conversational and cover art that ranges from the Paleolithic to the present across Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, and Oceania.
A collection of educational videos posted on YouTube.
Additional Resources
Indexes and abstracts articles, art-related books, conference proceedings, dissertations, and exhibition catalogs of European and American art from late antiquity to the present.
Browse through the Smithsonian Libraries digital collections of images, books, exhibits, and find research tools.
Explore collections from around the world with Google Arts & Culture, created by Google Cultural Institute.
Featuring over 1,700 artworks by more than 625 artists, the Collection Online presents a searchable database of selected artworks from the Guggenheim’s permanent collection of more than 7,000 artworks.
HathiTrust is a partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.
Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more
Memrise uses images and audio to help memorize vocabulary. The interactive site saves individual progress.
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
An open online archive of arts learning resources sharing day-to-day practice and research of art, design and media.
This list highlights selected art books and books about artists, including practical methods and specialties, as well as general works on art and art history, plus visitor guides to art expos, galleries, and museums.
These 14 videos contain examples of tendencies and patterns in way ideas are developed in art practice.
Open access publisher of peer-reviewed academic journals, books and data. Ubiquity's publications include titles in disciplines less well represented in open access publishing, such as archeology and anthropology.
Hosted by the Wikimedia foundation, Wikibooks is an open content textbook collection spanning a variety of reading levels and disciplines.