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-Free: The Guggenheim Puts 65 Modern Art Books Online
In recent days, the museum has made 65 art catalogues available online, all free of charge. The catalogues offer an intellectual and visual introduction to the work of Alexander Calder, Edvard Munch, Francis Bacon, Gustav Klimt & Egon Schiele, and Kandinsky. Plus there are other texts (e.g., Masterpieces of Modern Art and Abstract Expressionists Imagists) that tackle meta movements and themes.
Now let me give you a few handy instructions to get you started. 1.) Select a text from the collection. 2.) Click the “Read Catalogue Online” button. 3.) Start reading the book in the pop-up browser, and use the controls at the very bottom of the pop-up browser to move through the book. 4.) If you have any problems accessing these texts, you can find alternate versions on Archive.org, which lets you download books in multiple formats – ePUB, PDF and the rest.
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Architecture
- Architecture Studio: Building in Landscapes (Video) – iTunes – Jan Wampler, MIT
- Roman Architecture - YouTube – iTunes Audio – iTunes Video- Download Course – Diana E. E. Kleiner, Yale
Art & Art History
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- Foundations of American Cyber-Culture – YouTube – UC Berkeley
- Introduction to Visual Thinking – YouTube – UC Berkeley
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Film
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- Holocaust in Film and Literature – YouTube – Todd Presner, UCLA
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- Western Movies: Myth, Ideology, Genre – iTunes – Richard Slotkin, Wesleyan
- American Literature I: Beginnings to Civil War - iTunes Video –YouTube – Cyrus Patell, NYU
- Approaching Shakespeare – Web – Emma Smith, Oxford
- Cervantes’ Don Quixote - YouTube - iTunes Video - iTunes Audio- Web Site – Roberto González Echevarría, Yale
- Dante in Translation - YouTube - iTunes Audio - iTunes Video- Download Course – Giuseppe Mazzotta
- Darwin and Design – Web Site – James Paradis, MIT
- D.H. Lawrence – Web – Catherine Brown, Oxford
- Existentialism in Literature & Film - iTunes – Hubert Dreyfus, UC Berkeley
- George Eliot – Web – Catherine Brown, Oxford
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- Holocaust in Film and Literature – YouTube – Todd Presner, UCLA
- Introduction to Pre-Modern Japanese Literature and Culture –iTunes Audio – John Wallace, UC Berkeley
- Introduction to Theory of Literature – YouTube - iTunes Audio –iTunes Video - Download Course – Paul H. Fry, Yale
- Invitation to World Literature – Web Site - David Damrosch, Harvard
- Literature and Psychoanalysis – Web Site - John Fletcher, University of Warwick
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- Milton – YouTube – iTunes Audio - iTunes Video - Download Course – John Rogers, Yale
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Music
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