history of art

  1. Coursera

    Coursera The Modern and the Postmodern (Part 1)

    Overview This course examines how the idea of "the modern" develops at the end of the 18th century in European philosophy and literature, and how being modern (or progressive, or hip) became one of the crucial criteria for understanding and evaluating cultural change. Are we still in modernity...
  2. Coursera

    Coursera The Modern and the Postmodern (Part 2)

    Overview This course examines how the idea of "the modern" develops at the end of the 18th century in European philosophy and literature, and how being modern (or progressive, or hip) became one of the crucial criteria for understanding and evaluating cultural change. Are we still in modernity...
  3. Coursera

    Coursera In the Studio: Postwar Abstract Painting

    Overview Want to know how some of the 20th century’s most celebrated artists made abstract paintings? This course offers an in-depth, hands-on look at the materials, techniques, and thinking of seven New York School artists, including Willem de Kooning, Yayoi Kusama, Agnes Martin, Barnett...
  4. edX

    edX European Paintings: From Leonardo to Rembrandt to Goya

    Overview Learn about the inspirational work of the leading European painters from approximately 1400 to 1800, and explore the issues expressed through the art of painting. Included in this broad time frame are the works of Leonardo da Vinci, Caravaggio, Velázquez, Rembrandt, Vermeer and Goya...
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