This collection uses primary sources to explore Pop art in the US.

The Inuit and First Nations people tended to express their culture and history through artistic expression. Highlighted is the various art forms and artists of these people and especially the Northern region of Canada. Included are...

This collection uses primary sources to explore visual art during the Harlem Renaissance.

This primary source set uses illustrations, documents, and photographs to tell the story of the history of pop art.

Read an illustrated transcript of Milton Glaser's keynote address to a symposium on propaganda held in 2008, in which he muses on the purpose of art. Glaser, a celebrated graphic designer whose work is represented in major museums around...

This is the video [18:11] of Art Monk's induction speech to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2008.

Some of the New Deal programs during the Great Depression were designed to support artists and the arts. This National Archives and Records Administration site explores the products of the time period.

This site features the full text of the short story "Art" by Anton Chekhov.

The Oakland Museum presents an exhibit of art that show the miners, mining towns, new cities, and people of the Gold Rush. Be sure to read the overview of the exhibit to get the historical background.

This is an English full-text translation of the papal encyclical issued by Pope Pius XII on April 8, 1952 to a group of Italian artists.

Explore the pages and elements of Arabic books throughout history by looking at examples and details of codices, illuminated texts, artistic scripts, calligraphy instruments, scientific illustrations, book bindings, and contemporary...

Artistic expressions of the new black self image inspired by migration to the urban North. This focus of this site is "Song of the Towers", a series of four murals sponsored by the federal Works Projects Administration, outlining black...

A scanned copy of the 1880 publication of Puss in Boots, a book of poems for children.

This resource provides a transcript of an interview from 1965 with Charles Wilbert White.

A selection of letters, writings, photographs, interviews and other primary sources documenting American artists working in clay.

The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion...

This site offers a link to Sun Tzu's nonfiction work The Art of War. Sun Tzu was a Chinese general, military strategist, and philosopher who is traditionally credited as the author of The Art of War, a widely influential work of military...

The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion...

The subject matter of this medieval manuscript by the friar, Jacobus de Cessolis, is interesting--looking at the game of chess from a societal standpoint. Even more interesting from the viewpoint of the history of art is the illustrated...

Page through one of Leonardo's notebooks, in which he works out his observations about weights, measures, reflections, and similar material matters. Interesting examples of the master's characteristic "mirror writing" and of his...

A catalogue of different kinds of medieval seals. They are organized into many categories, e.g., by institution, country, century, type of insignia, etc. Each seal is accompanied by a description and a high quality image.

A site from the University of Michigan on various types of forgery in art from the Renaissance period to today. This site also covers website forgery and the internet.

Well here it is, the basis for Art Imitating Nature! This site is all text translated by S. H. Butcher. 26 chapters on the subject. If you wondered about the origins of the concept, here it is.

This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Wide Awake Pleasure Book: Gems of Literature and Art by American Authors and Artists (c1887), a collection of illustrated stories.