Posts Tagged ‘modern’
The Centre des Monuments Nationaux conserves, restores, and manages nearly 100 national monuments, opening up these sites of social, cultural, and architectural history for public consumption. The website uses a geographic search feature to locate pages devoted to the Pantheon, Tours Cathedral, the house of George Sand, and many more. Monument pages include photographs and videos, points of historical interests, details about tours and other activities on site, and a list of literature specific to the building.
Tags: architectural history, Baroque, Centre des Monuments Nationaux, conservation, cultural history, France, French history, gardens, modern, modernism, neoclassicism, preservation, renassiance, social history, tourism
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on November 23, 2009 in architectural history, architecture, images, landscape, photography | No Comments »
Harvard University Libraries have created VIA (Visual Information Access), a growing online catalog uniting collections from various Harvard libraries and archives including the GSD, Fine Arts Library, Harvard Film Archive, Arnold Arboretum and Horticulture Library, and more. Documenting material culture, and social history, VIA is an excellent research tool, containing descriptive records and images representing paintings, sculpture, photography, drawings, prints, architecture, decorative arts, trade cards, rubbings, theater designs, maps and plans. New material is added daily.
Tags: ancient, archaeology, architectural history, architecture, archive, art history, arts, books, botany, campus architecture, cultural history, database, decorative arts, film, garden, gender studies, Harvard, illustrations, images, industrial design, interior design, landscape architecture, manuscripts, modern, neigborhood, photography, planning, postcards, science, textiles, theaters, transportation, urbanism, VIA, visual resource collection
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on October 16, 2009 in architectural history, architecture, art, images, landscape, photography | No Comments »
Reed College Artists’ Book website is an online reference guide to artists‘ books and the significant role they have played among the avant-garde of Eastern and Western Europe, Asia and the United States, from the turn of the last century to the present. The Reed College collection holds approximately 1,000 books including the most significant 20th century and contemporary artists’ books, among them livre d’artiste, avant-garde, conceptual, and contemporary works. Individual web pages for sixteen of the most significant book works contain a gallery of images to navigate the entire work, a brief biography on the artist, a description of the book and the books colophon.
Tags: art, art history, avant-garde, book history, conceptual art, Contemporary Art, cultural history, El Lissitzky, Fernand Léger, modern, modernism, visual resource collections
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on October 4, 2009 in art, images | No Comments »
The Arkitekturmuseet in Stockholm, Sweden has created a Picture Bank that contains 2,500 digital photographs and drawings primarily documenting twentieth-century Swedish design. The images available through Arkitekturmuseet showcase Scandinavian architecture and urbanism while illustrating the lifestyle of the modern. Building and formal typologies represented include industry and retail trade, sport and leisure facilities, the landscape, furniture and furnishings, and interior design for both private and public buildings.
Tags: Arkitekturmuseet, images, industrial design, interior design, modern, modern architecture, modernism, Scandinavian architecture, Swedish architecture, urban design
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on September 30, 2009 in 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 »
Case Study House No. 21
Pierre Koenig, architect, Los Angeles, 1958
On April 8th at 7:00 pm, the Austin Film Society will host a screening of Visual Acoustics: the Modernism of Julius Schulman at Alamo Drafthouse @ the Ritz. Directed by Erik Bricker and narrated by Dustin Hoffman, this award-winning documentary explores the uniquely individualistic life and architectural photography of 98-year old Schulman. The film includes interviews from architect Frank Gehry, designer Tom Ford and others, and achieves an authenticity true to Schulman’s own nuanced photographic aesthetic.
Tags: architecture, Austin Film Society, Case Study Houses, Dustin Hoffman, Erik Bricker, film, Frank Gehry, Julius Schulman, Los Angeles, modern, modernism, photography, Pierre Koenig, Tom Ford
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on April 1, 2009 in architectural history, architecture, images, photography | No Comments »
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