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Words Spun Out of Images: Visual and Literary Culture in Nineteenth Century Japan (Coursera)

In their ambition to capture “real life,” Japanese painters, poets, novelists and photographers of the nineteenth century collaborated in ways seldom explored by their European contemporaries. This course offers learners the chance to encounter and appreciate behavior, moral standards and some of the material conditions surrounding Japanese artists in [...]

Art & Ideas: Teaching with Themes (Coursera)

This course is designed to help build critical skills that support theme-based teaching practices and build confidence in incorporating modern and contemporary art into interdisciplinary lesson plans. By addressing themes and questions that arise in relation to modern and contemporary art, the course will help you to [...]

What Is Contemporary Art? (Coursera)

What is contemporary art? In this course, you’ll consider this question through more than 70 works of art made between 1980 and the present, with a focus on art from the past decade. You’ll hear directly from artists, architects, and designers from around the globe about their creative processes, [...]

ART of the MOOC: Activism and Social Movements (Coursera)

This course is for activists, artists, and thinkers who wish to better understand and participate in social change. We will focus on the prolific and exciting overlap between socially engaged art and cultural practices generated by recent social movements around the world. Rather than assess the political efficacy of [...]

ART of the MOOC: Activismo y Movimientos Sociales (Coursera)

Este curso es para activistas, artistas y pensadores que deseen entender mejor el cambio social y participar en él. El contenido del curso enfoca en la coincidencia prolífica y emocionante entre el arte socialmente comprometido y prácticas culturales generadas por recientes movimientos sociales en todo el mundo. Más que [...]

Women in Arts: From 1900 until today (FutureLearn)

Nov 15th 2021
Women in Arts: From 1900 until today (FutureLearn)
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Discover the women creators who shaped modern and contemporary art and those who continue to make huge impacts today. Delve into art history through the extraordinary works of women artists. On this seven-week course, you’ll journey through an alternative history of modern and contemporary art – one that is centred [...]

La percepción del paisaje (edX)

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La percepción del paisaje (edX)
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En este MOOC nos proponemos dos objetivos: recrear la historia del paisaje y percibirlo no sólo por la vista, sino por los cinco sentidos. De forma que veremos cómo se ha ido pasando de una percepción frontal del paisaje (la del caminante y el navegante), a una lateral (la [...]

Politics, Art and Resistance (FutureLearn)

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Politics, Art and Resistance (FutureLearn)
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Explore what it means to resist in contemporary art and politics. Explore how art movements have inspired political activism. What’s the link between art and activism? This course introduces ideas and practices of resistance, and the relationship between art and politics.

Discovering Socially Engaged Art in Contemporary China (FutureLearn)

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Discovering Socially Engaged Art in Contemporary China (FutureLearn)
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Find out about inspiring projects created by Chinese artists to address important social issues, with this free online course. China has experienced dramatic changes over the past four decades - while the country is becoming more affluent, it’s also facing complex social issues. A number of Chinese artists have [...]

Contemporary Critic Art and Exhibition Models (UNINETTUNO)

urse is divided into two modules. The first module deals with the themes of history and art criticism in the 19th and the 20th centuries, with particular attention to the movements so-called "Avant-garde", in Italy, in Europe and in the United States.