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Design at Apple
Jonathan Ive, vice president of industrial design at Apple, discusses the design of the iMac, iPod and other innovative products.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Architects and Engineers
Students explore the interface between architecture and engineering. In the associated hands-on activity, students act as both architects and engineers by designing and building a small parking garage.
Stanford University
Soren Kierkegaard
This site provides very in-depth information about the life and works of the existentialist philosopher Soren Kierkegaard. Toward the bottom of the page is a chronological timeline of his life, as well as a bibliography and list of other...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Thoughtful Threads: Sparking Rich Online Discussions
Today's students love chatting online with friends. This lesson combines that love with literature. Students form literature circles and have meaningful online discussions about a literary work.
W. W. Norton
Norton Anthology: Twentieth Century Topics
Explore the world of Twentieth Century British literature through this informative site. Find out how and why Georgian and Modernism movements developed. Includes a quiz.
Other
Importance of Plants and Plant Communities
Discover why plants are extremely important to humans. Resource provides an explanation of the important things they provide.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Picturing America: Whistler: The Peacock Room [Pdf]
Analysis of a room that Whistler designed for a London-based client underscores his interest in aesthetics that go beyond the bounds of a single painting.
NOAA
Noaa: Ocean Facts on Marine Mammals
The National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration sponsors this introductory article and related links that tell why marine mammals are valued by the public for their great aesthetic, recreational and economic significance.
National Library of France
National Library of France: Renaissance Drawings
This exhibition of drawings from the Renaissance contains numerous examples of figurative, architectural, and decorative subjects. Short explanatory notes provide the historical and artistic context of similarly themed works. A useful...
State Library of North Carolina
N Cpedia: Conservation Movement
The 1960s marked the beginning of a new focus on the environment in North Carolina and throughout the United States. Residents of the state became more concerned with preserving land for ethical reasons and for the sheer aesthetics of...
John F. Kennedy Center
The Kennedy Center: Arts Edge: Dana Tai Soon Burgess, on the Path to Dance
Burgess talks about his experiences blending Eastern and Western aesthetics in dance. He also gives some advice on getting into dance.
Smithsonian Institution
Freer | Sackler Galleries: Gallery Guide: The Art of Buddhism
An examination of the aesthetic tradition of Buddhist art in India, China, and Japan, with examples pulled from the Smithsonian galleries devoted to the art of Asia.
Other
Gestalt Principles of Perception 2: Similarity
Understand the principle of similarity as it relates to web page design. Discover ways in which to create and design a web page that is both aesthetically pleasing and well organized.
Other
Visual Complexity: Visualizing Complex Networks
Examples of over 300 differnt types of maps, flow charts, and graphs. Emphasis is placed on the artistic and aesthetic qualities of the maps' visual components.
ibiblio
Ibiblio: Web Museum: Classicism
This site gives an overview of classicism, then proceeds to compare it with neoclassicism. The article then explores the roots of the term "classicism" and its inherent meaning to the Greeks and Romans. Contains a French translation.
ArtLex
Art Lex: Beauty
Definition of "beauty" according to ArtLex, a dictionary of art terms. Includes links to other important terms as well. A good place to start.
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Point of View
A personal site by Nita Leland that discusses point of view representation in creating artwork. It is a quick read - only one page, but the information provided will get you on your way!
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Tom Patti
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Tom Patti is described here along with information on his contributions to art through his work with perception and perception theory (which he studied with Rudolph Arnheim).
New Advent
Catholic Encyclopedia: Philosophy of Immanuel Kant
Thorough summary of Kant's thought, divided into three main sections according to Kant's three Critiques. Please note that ?The Catholic Encyclopedia? is a historic reference source and should be viewed in the context of resource...
Museum Network (UK)
Wallace Collection: Material World: Mystery Objects
Choose from several mystery pictures to examine, pick what you think it could be, and then learn about the object.
Other
Project Aristotle/wittgenstein and Open Concept of Art
This Project Aristotle paper looks at the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein and its application to visual art.
Curated OER
Unesco: Czech Republic: Tugendhat Villa in Brno
The Tugendhat Villa in Brno, designed by the architect Mies van der Rohe, is an outstanding example of the international style in the modern movement in architecture as it developed in Europe in the 1920s. Its particular value lies in...
Curated OER
Unesco: Germany: Fagus Factory in Alfeld
Fagus Factory in Alfeld is a 10-building complex - began around 1910 to the design of Walter Gropius, which is a landmark in the development of modern architecture and industrial design. Serving all stages of manufacture, storage and...
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