Art

Introduction to Art

• Introduction to Art: Design, Context, and Meaning
  • Introduction to Art: Design, Context, and Meaning offers a comprehensive introduction to the world of Art. Authored by four USG faculty members with advance degrees in the arts, this textbooks offers up-to-date original scholarship. It includes over 400 high-quality images illustrating the history of art, its technical applications, and its many uses.

Art History

• The Bright Continent: African Art History
  • This book aims to act as your map through the world of African art. As such, it will help define the competencies needed to develop–visual analysis, research, noting what information is critical, asking questions, and writing down your observations–and provide opportunities for you to practice these skills until you are proficient. It will also expose you to new art forms and the worlds that produced them, enriching your understanding and appreciation.

• SmArtHistory: The Center for Public Art History 
  • Collection of OER History Textbooks covering a variety of topics, including guides to Ancient Mediterranean art, Medieval Europe and Byzantine art, and Europe from 1300 through 1800.

Digital Art & Graphic Design

• Digital Foundations: Introduction to Media Design with the Adobe Creative Cloud
  • Includes The Metaphor of Using Graphics Applications; Searching and Sampling - Becoming an Expert Web User; Symmetry; Type on a Grid; Color Theory & Basic Shapes; Line Art and Flat Graphics; Scanning; Tonal Scale; Layering and Collage; Repetition and Cloning; Non-Destructive Editing; Getting It Out - Digital Output for Web; Multiple Pages: Unity; Two-Page Spreads

• Graphic Design and Print Production Fundamentals
  • Includes Design History; Design Process; Design Elements, Design Principles, and Compositional Organization; Colour Management in the Graphic Technologies; Pre-Press; Imaging; Web2Print