Where to Find Resources (by type)

This educational video series featuring thirteen half-hour programs, a guide, text, and other Web resources, takes a thematic approach to art history. Rather than a linear chronology, the materials explore connections in Western and non-Western art, illuminating the breadth, complexity, and beauty of works produced around the world and at different periods of time.

From Lumen Learning. Online open textbook covering prehistoric to 20th century art across the world.

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The Met’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History pairs essays and works of art with chronologies telling the story of art and global culture through the Museum’s collection.

Many digitized books can be checked out for a limited period. Continually growing collection offering permanent access for researchers, historians, scholars, people with disabilities, and the general public to historical collections that exist in digital format.

Online open textbook covering prehistoric to 20th-century art across the world.

Openly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS) is a search tool that makes discovery of open content easier. OASIS currently searches open content from 57 different sources, from SUNY.

A nonprofit organization committed to improving student access to quality learning materials. Free textbooks are developed and peer-reviewed by educators to ensure they are readable, accurate, and meet the scope and sequence requirements of your course.

Browse a wide selection of textbooks on topics related to art.

Pressbooks Directory provides an index of 5,000+ books published across Pressbooks networks.

Smarthistory is a free resource for the study of art history created by art historians Beth Harris and Steven Zucker. Smarthistory is an independent not-for-profit organization and the official partner to Khan Academy for art history.