Posts Tagged ‘ARTstor’
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 »
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 »
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 SOA Visual Resources Collection is proud to announce that over 40,000 images from its digital collection are now available through ARTstor’s institutional hosting service. In addition, ARTstor has recently developed some exciting new features such as instantaneous PowerPoint presentation creation. Feel free to stop by the VRC in Sutton Hall, 3.128 for a brief introduction to ARTstor’s collection, image management tools, and services.
Tags: ARTstor, SOA Visual Resources Collection
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on September 9, 2009 in architectural history, architecture, art, image presentation, images, landscape, maps, photography | No Comments »
Launched in the summer of 2004 with over 300,000 images, ARTstor celebrates its fifth anniversary this July. The digital library now includes over one million digital images of “cultural objects, seminal architectural works, as well as a broad range of historical, political, social, economic, and cultural documentation from prehistory to the present.”
Read more about how ARTstor has developed in the past five years.
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Posted by Joan Winter on July 13, 2009 in ARTstor | No Comments »
An initial release of 2,700 images from Bryn Mawr’s collection of site plans documenting ancient and medieval buildings in the Ancient Near East and Europe is now available. Read more here.
ArtSTOR is also in the process of adding the Samuel H. Kress Collection from the National Gallery of Art, which includes over 600 images of European painting, sculpture and decorative arts. Read more here.
Tags: ARTstor, Bryn Mawr, National Gallery of Art
Posted by Joan Winter on June 22, 2009 in ARTstor, architectural history, art, copyright, maps | No Comments »
12,000 images from The American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS) are now available in ARTstor. The collection will eventually contain over 60,000 images of South Asian art and architecture selected from the AIIS Photo Archive in Gurgaon, Haryana, India. The AIIS is a consortium of universities in the United States which engage in the research and study of India. A portion of the collection is already available online at the American Institute of Indian Studies Center for Art and Archeology Photo Archive at the University of Chicago.
In addition, ARTstor has also collaborated with Carl and Jennifer Strom to digitize and make available 3,200 images of Korean Buddhist monasteries and temples. The Storms traveled throughout Korea in the 1970s, documenting over 120 religious sites.
Tags: ARTstor, Asian architecture
Posted by Joan Winter on June 9, 2009 in ARTstor | 1 Comment »
In collaboration with MOMA, ARTstor has released the final series of exhibition photographs from the Museum’s Archives. This latest installment includes over 7,000 images dating from 1978 to 2000. With approximately 16,700 images, the complete Exhibition Installation Photograph Collection documents major exhibitions held at the museum from 1929 to 2000.
In addition, ARTstor has incorporated new images of Islamic and South Asian art from the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic art, the Roy Lichtenstein collection made available through the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation and Estate, 9,234 additional images from Larry Qualls’ archive of contemporary art, and 5,500 images of European art and architecture photographed for the MET by William Keighley.
Tags: ARTstor, Contemporary Art, Doris Duke Foundation, exhibitions, installations, Larry Qualls, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Modern Art, MOMA, photography, Roy Lichtenstein Foundation and Estate
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on April 20, 2009 in ARTstor, art, image presentation, images, photography | No Comments »
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