Monday, August 5, 2013

ARTSTOR August 2013


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Welcome
ARTstor welcomes new subscribing institutions
As of August 1, 2013, there were 1,517 institutions participating in the ARTstor Digital Library. During July, ARTstor welcomed Mercer University (GA); National Chung Cheng University (Taiwan); City Colleges of Chicago (Harold Washington College, Harry S. Truman College, Kennedy-King College, Malcolm X College, Olive-Harvey College, Richard J. Daley College, and Wilbur Wright College); and Indianapolis Museum of Art (IN).

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Discovery
Photographer D. James Dee and his archive | Photographer: Marin Watts

A challenging treasure: the James Dee archives
D. James Dee, aka the SoHo Photographer, was searching for a home for his archive of slides, transparencies, negatives, and digital photographs of approximately 250,000 works of contemporary art. However, the archive came with one major piece missing: metadata. How could we resist?
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James Rosenquist: A Retrospective | October 17, 2003 – February 4, 2004 | David Heald, photographer | Photograph: © 2012 The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York | Work: Art © James Rosenquist / Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY.
How do you browse through 1.6 million images?
Searching is great, but with 1.6 million images to choose from, can you browse through the virtual stacks of the ARTstor Digital Library? What is the best way to discover images from 235 collections from museums, photographers, libraries, scholars, photo archives, and artists and artists' estates from around the world? We have some tips.
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Art in context: installation photography
Exhibition design is a central topic in museology, and is also of interest to curators, art historians, and even artists, who often want to see what effect context has on artworks. The ARTstor Digital Library offers tens of thousands of exhibition documentation images from the late 19th century to the present from major American institutions.
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Collection news
 
Flint Institute of Arts
ARTstor and the Flint Institute of Arts (FIA) have collaborated to share more than 2,300 images in the Digital Library.
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Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi of Great Britain
13,000 images of medieval stained glass windows in Great Britain from the Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi of Great Britain are now available in the Digital Library.
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Smith College Museum of Art
ARTstor Digital Library has collaborated with the Smith College Museum of Art to share 4,900 images from the museum's permanent collection.
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Shangri La, Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art
ARTstor has collaborated with the Shangri La, Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art to release 100 additional images of Islamic and South Asian art in the Digital Library.
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The ARTstor Digital Library and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston have collaborated to share more than 1,300 additional images of art and artifacts from the museum's permanent collection.
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New agreement: 1,000 additional images from the Seattle Art Museum
ARTstor has reached an agreement with the Seattle Art Museum to make available an additional 1,000 images of world art from the museum's permanent collection.
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Events
Meet ARTstor and Shared Shelf staff in Singapore
ARTstor is visiting Singapore in August! President James Shulman will be presenting at the Fiesole Collection Development Retreat (August 12), and ARTstor/Shared Shelf staff will be at IFLA 2013 (August 17-23).
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What is ARTstor?
ARTstor is a nonprofit organization that makes available a Digital Library of more than 1.6 million images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences with a set of tools to use images for teaching and learning.
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Image credit: a) Photographer D. James Dee and his archive | Photographed by Marin Watts; b) Rollie McKenna, photographer | Installing the exhibition, "The Graphic Work of Edvard Munch." | February 6, 1957 through March 3, 1957 | Photographic Archive; The Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York | © 2008 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / Bono, Oslo; c) Henry Moore | Working Model for Sheep Piece | 1971 | Image and original data provided by the Flint Institute of Arts | © 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / DACS, London; d) York Minster, Nave, north aisle, north window: scene from the legend of St. Nicholas | c. 1170-1190 | York, England | Image provided by the English Heritage Archive | Original data provided by Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi, Great Britain; e) Le Corbusier | Poème de l'angle droit | 1955 | ©2008 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris / FLC; f) India | Perfume Flask | late 19th or early 20th century | Image and original data courtesy of Shangri La, Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art; g) Water jar (hydria) | about 530-520 B.C. | Greece | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
 
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