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Art Appreciation Open Educational Resource
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Description
The Art Appreciation course explores the world’s visual arts, focusing on the development of visual awareness, assessment, and appreciation by examining a variety of styles from various periods and cultures while emphasizing the development of a common visual language. The materials are meant to foster a broader understanding of the role of visual art in human culture and experience from the prehistoric through the contemporary.
This is an Open Educational Resource (OER), an openly licensed educational material designed to replace a traditional textbook. The course materials consist of 24 lessons each with a presentation, reading list, and/or sample assignment. For ease of adapting, materials are available as PDFs and Microsoft PowerPoint or Word documents.
Copyright
This OER is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0); it is intended for non-commercial, educational purposes.
NOTE: Due to the nature of the course materials, licensing and copyright for images may differ from the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 licensing of the OER. Further information can be found in the section ‘Copyright Information’ and within the captions of the images.
Acknowledgements
This Art Appreciation OER was adapted from existing resources by Marie Porterfield Barry for the Fall 2019 semester as part of East Tennessee State University’s Open Educational Resources (OERs) Awards Program.
Recommended Citation
Porterfield, Marie. 2020. Art Appreciation Open Educational Resource. Johnson City, TN: East Tennessee State University.
https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-oer/1