Freedom
of Expression
An
interdisciplinary
education project partially funded by the American Bar Association,
Commission
on College and University Legal Studies through the ABA Fund for
Justice
and Education
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Look at on-line exhibits/displays of art, select a work for discussion, and then consider how you would evaluate the work (a) as an art critic, (b) as a prospective buyer of the work for display in their private home, (c) as a panelist at a government funding agency, such as NEA, (d) as a panelist at a private funding agency, such as a private foundation. To find new and recent art, try these: |
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| Arts Edge | Art education programs at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC |
| Eyes on Art | Resources for teachers, in a discipline-based approach to arts education, created for Pacific Bell's Education First Initiative |
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| American Dance Festival | Premiere festival of modern dance in the United States, with many affiliated educational programs, at Duke University |
| Ballet Web | Devoted to classical ballet, with many links to other sites |
| CyberDance: Ballet on the Net | Extensive links to sources on classical ballet and modern dance |
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| American Film Institute | Major film repository, with some available on its Web site. |
| Film-Philosophy Electronic Salon | Maintained in Great Britain, with links to information on philosophers who write about film, journals on film and philosophy, bibliographies, and extensive links to on-line writing about film and philosophy |
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| Leonard Bernstein | Extensive on-line archive maintained by the Bernstein estate, with excerpts from his recordings, photographs, letters, catalogues, scores, and other materials. Bernstein was a tireless supporter of the NEA until his death. |
| Classical Midi Archives | Over 3,000 classical music files in Midi format. A Midigate player can be downloaded as well. The site permits you to download up to 100 files for your own personal use. |
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| Theatre Central | Comprehensive listing of theater resources on the Internet |
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| African Art:
Aesthetics
and meaning
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/dic/exhib/93.ray.aa/African.html |
Electronic exhibition catalog from the Bayly Art Museum at the University of Virginia |
| AIDS Memorial Quilt | Consider whether the quilt includes any "depiction" of homosexuality, as prohibited by Congress in NEA-funded projects. (The quilt itself did not receive NEA funds. The issue is what constitutes "depiction" in the Congressional prohibitions.") |
| ArtsEdNet | Extensive site at the Getty Education Institute for the Arts, with resources for art education, including on-line exhibits, discussions with featured artists, and materials on the history, criticism, and philosophy of the visual arts |
| Artscope | New site for promotion of performing and visual arts with ratings of arts-related web sites. |
| California Museum of Photography | On-line exhibits at the Museum at University of California, Riverside |
| Fine Art Forum | Directory of online art resources |
| Los Angeles County Museum of Art | LACMA's home page includes artist interviews, online catalogues, and the exhibition schedule |
| Louvre Museum | On-line images from the collection at the Paris museum |
| Metropolitan Museum of Art | Generous on-line exhibit from the New York museum |
| Museum of Bad Art | A good way to assess your critical skills. |
| The Thinker | Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco: imagebase with 50,000 works on paper, including search tools. |
| Webseek | Content-based image and video search catalog tool for the Web, maintained at Columbia University |
| Women's Artist Archive | The first web site dedicated to women artists on the WWW, created in 1995 at Sonoma State University |
| World Wide Arts Resources | Extensive links to artists, galleries, museums, art schools, and publications |
| World Wide Web Virtual Library Museum Pages | Extensive links, sponsored by the International Council of Museums |
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| Emory University Law School | A wealth of information about the U.S. Constitution and other legal resources. |
| Findlaw | One of the best all-purpose search sites for resources on the law on the Web. |
| Legal Information Institute | Students interested in the law should become acquainted with this site hosted by Cornell Law School. The on-line content includes recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions (since 1990), information about the current members of the Supreme Court, the full U.S. legal code (U.S.C., the United States Code), and other materials of interest. You can look up the current version of the authorizing legislation for the National Endowment for the Arts (codified at 20 U.S.C. 951 et seq.), to identify those passages which address "obscenity" and "indecency," and evaluate the passages in light of the issues considered in class. |
| Library of Congress | Numerous links to information about all branches of the government, as well as historical on-line exhibits of library holdings. An exhibit about the Works Project Administration illustrates one of the earliest examples of Federal support for the arts. |
| National Archives | Home of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights. An on-line Exhibit Hall http://www.nara.gov/exhall/exhibits.htmldisplays the full text of all documents, as well as high-resolution images of the original pages of the Constitution and Bill of Rights. The Archives also maintain a "Digital Classroom" with on-line instructional materials on the use of historic documents and information on ordering. "The Constitution (Learning With Documents)": http://www.nara.gov/education/ |
| Thomas | Established by the Library of Congress in 1994, the site provides the full text of House and Senate bills as far back as 1994, the Congressional Record, the U.S. Constitution, and other resources. Find statements by Representatives and Senators in the past year on funding for the arts and critique the strengths and weaknesses of the arguments marshaled. |
| U.S House of Representatives | Most Representatives now have their own Web sites, including policy statements on various issues. |
| U.S. Senate | Most Senators now have their own Web sites, including policy statements on various issues. |
| United States Supreme Court Oral Argument Archive | Tapes of the oral arguments for many cases are available at this site, including Miller v. California and other important cases in freedom of expression. The RealAudio software needed to listen to the tapes on-line can also be downloaded from this site, which is maintained at Northwestern University. |
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| American Philosophical Association http://www.udel.edu/apa/ | The pre-eminent national organization for philosophers, with links to many resources in the field. |
| American Society
for Aesthetics http://www.aesthetics-online.org/ |
Major organization for philosophers of art, as well as practicing critics and theorists. Numerous links to resources in the field. |
| Guide to Philosophy on the Internet | Very comprehensive links from Earlham College |
| Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy | Both primary sources and secondary articles on all areas of philosophy. |
| Philosophy at Large | Maintained by the University of Liverpool |
| World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Philosophy/Philosophy | Maintained by the University of Bristol, it provides comprehensive information about philosophy resources in philosophy, including on-line texts of classic philosophical material, such as John Stuart Mill's On Liberty. |
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| CARL UnCover on the Web | Free on-line searches of journal articles; most can be faxed to you for a credit-card charge |
| Encyclopedia Britannica Internet Guide | Best and most reliable of the Internet, with 65,000 rated sites and a useful search engine. |
| New York Public Library for the Performing Arts | Premiere library for performing arts, with an on-line searchable catalog of library resources |
| Voice of the Shuttle, University of California, Santa Barbara | Very comprehensive listing of WWW resources in the arts and humanities, organized by discipline, including architecture, art & art history, literature, literary theory, media studies, music & dance, philosophy, and photography |
| Words of Art | On-Line Glossary of Theory and Criticism for the Visual Arts |
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Van Camp, Professor of Philosophy,
California
State University, Long Beach.
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Nothing in this material should be considered legal advice. If you have a legal problem, you should consult with experienced legal counsel. The views here are solely the responsibility of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the American Bar Association, California State University, or the National Endowment for the Arts.
Last updated: July 25, 2006