Archive for the ‘ARTstor’ Category
7,200 images of works of South Asian and Cuban art and architecture donated by leading South Asian Islamic art and architectural historian Alka Patel and 500 images of Japanese art, architecture, and festivals created by David Boggett are now available in ARTstor. In addition, over 80,000 photographs of high-quality photographs of major world events and personalities, 1,000 images of works on paper by Mark Rothko, and 1,400 images of medieval stained glass windows from the 12th through 16th centuries have also been made available.
Tags: Alka Patel, architectural history, architecture, art, ARTstor, David Boggett, image presentation, images, Islamic architecture, Japanese architecture, Japanese art, Mark Rothko, photographs, photography, South Asian architecture, visual resources collection
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on October 28, 2009 in ARTstor, architectural history, architecture, art, image presentation, images, landscape, photography | No Comments »
Find information on how to use ARTstor by viewing the video posted on YouTube.
Tags: ARTstor, help, UTSOA VRC, YouTube
Posted by Joan Winter on October 14, 2009 in ARTstor, image presentation, images | No Comments »
Over 3,000 new images of architecture, applied design, and American popular culture are available in ARTstor. Collections shared by the Minneapolis College of Art and Design Slide Library and Bryn Mawr College include images of site plans for ancient and medieval architectural and archeological sites along with images of American pop culture and design. Photographs of American architecture taken by Dov Friedman have also been added.
Tags: American architecture, ancient architecture, applied art, architectural history, architecture, art, art history, ARTstor, cultural history, Dov Friedman, images, medieval architecture, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, photographs, photography, visual resources collection
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on October 13, 2009 in ARTstor, architectural history, architecture, art, image presentation, images, landscape, photography | No Comments »
Learn how to access the VRC’s collection in ARTstor by watching the video posted on YouTube.
Tags: digital images, UTSOA VRC
Posted by Joan Winter on October 5, 2009 in ARTstor, architectural history, art, image presentation, images | No Comments »
ARTstor is working with The Museum of Modern Art to share more than 1,400 images of modern art including images of works executed by Marc Chagall, Vasily Kandinsky, Lee Krasner, Henri Matisse, Piet Mondrian, and others. These selections will join two other collections that MoMA has shared through ARTstor: the Architecture and Design and the Exhibition Installation Photograph Collection from The Museum of Modern Art Archives.
Tags: ARTstor, modern, Modern Art, modernism, MOMA, The Museum of Modern Art
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on September 29, 2009 in ARTstor, architectural history, architecture, art, image presentation, images, photography | No Comments »
Hodek Apartment Building, architect Josef Chochol, Prague, Czech Republic, 1913-1914. Photograph by Christopher Long.
Come celebrate the opening this Thursday, September 17th, 3-5 p.m. in Sutton 3.128, of the VRC’s fall exhibit, A Passage to the New: Modern Architecture in Central Europe, 1890-1938, Photographs by Christopher Long. The exhibit highlights a collection of 215 images captured by Long in the 1980s and 90s. The images are available on ARTstor.
The exhibit is on view until January 15th, Monday-Friday 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Posted by Joan Winter on September 15, 2009 in ARTstor, architectural history, images, photography | No Comments »
The UTSOA Visual Resources Collection has collaborated with ARTsor to make available 458 images created by Wilfried Wang. The photos document European and American architecture, with a particular emphasis on contemporary museums. Wilfried Wang is the O’Neil Ford Centennial Professor in Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin. His research focuses on architectural theory and criticism, particularly in Central Europe. He also co-founded with Barbara Hoidn the architectural firm HOIDN WANG PARTNER, Berlin.
Tags: ARTstor, museums, UTSOA, Wilfried Wang
Posted by Joan Winter on September 10, 2009 in ARTstor, architectural history, architecture | No Comments »
The Harry Ransom Center at UT-Austin will contribute 700 images of European prints to ARTstor. The woodcuts, engravings and etchings document popular culture in the 17th and 18th centuries. Subject matter includes political satire, advertising, erotica, and social allegory.
Read more here.
Tags: Harry Ransom Center, popular culture, prints
Posted by Joan Winter on August 10, 2009 in ARTstor | No Comments »
Over 18,000 images of the ancient sites Dura-Europos in Syria and Jerash in Jordan are now available on ARTstor. Yale University sponsored archaeological expeditions to the sites in the early twentieth century and has amassed an archive that includes plans, and photographs of the remains of Hellenistic buildings. Images of objects from the Yale University Art Gallery collection have also been digitized.
Read more here.
Tags: ancient architecture, Dura-Europos, Jerash, Yale
Posted by Joan Winter on August 5, 2009 in ARTstor | No Comments »
ARTstor and ART on FILE have collaborated on a campaign to create new content and to document images of the contemporary built environment, landscape architecture and urban design in Scandinavia and the Netherlands. The photographic campaign concluded in June and many images are already available online.
Read more here.
Tags: ART on FILE, Scandinavia
Posted by Joan Winter on July 24, 2009 in ARTstor, architecture | No Comments »
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