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There is more and more content being added to ARTstor, the art image
database. Feel free to read the announcement that was made earlier
this month but essentially, ARTstor now has or will soon have:<br><br>
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thousands of <b>modern and contemporary artwork </b>images ranging from
"William Baziotes and Isabel Bishop to Jacob Lawrence and Kasimir
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Lloyd Wright and Francisco Zuñiga." This is a really good
addition as many image databases have had difficulty in acquiring these
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thousand high quality digital images of <b>modern graphic design</b> as a
result of the collaboration between Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design
at
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(part of Cooper Union’s School of Art) and ARTstor. "This
collaboration will focus initially on a digital design archive previously
familiar to the
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community as the National Graphic Design Image Database." ARTstor
plans to have these available by the spring semester 2006.<br><br>
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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ART IN
ARTSTOR: AN UPDATE<br><br>
We know that many ARTstor users have been eagerly awaiting the day
when<br>
ARTstor would be able to offer a representative body of 20th and
now<br>
21st century art. And so we would now like to announce that we
have<br>
recently released into the ARTstor Digital Library tens of thousands
of<br>
images of modern and contemporary art works by scores of artists.
Artists<br>
now represented in ARTstor range from William Baziotes and Isabel Bishop
to<br>
Jacob Lawrence and Kasimir Malevich to Frank Lloyd Wright and
Francisco<br>
Zuñiga.<br><br>
We are continuing to negotiate agreements that will allow us to offer
an<br>
expanding body of modern and contemporary art images. And in coming
weeks<br>
we will expect to announce both the addition of further 20th (and
21st!)<br>
century art images as well as a series of collection development<br>
partnerships that focus specifically on modern and contemporary art
such<br>
as the following announcement of an important partnership with the
Cooper<br>
Union in the area of graphic design.<br><br>
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COLLABORATIVE AGREEMENT REACHED BETWEEN THE COOPER UNION FOR THE<br>
ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART AND ARTSTOR<br><br>
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art and ARTstor
are<br>
pleased to announce that they have reached an agreement whereby the
Herb<br>
Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography (part of Cooper
Union’s<br>
School of Art) and ARTstor will collaborate on the distribution
through<br>
ARTstor of several thousand high quality digital images of modern
graphic<br>
design. This collaboration will focus initially on a digital
design<br>
archive previously familiar to the graphic design community as the
National<br>
Graphic Design Image Database. We anticipate making these images
available<br>
to ARTstor users in the course of the spring semester 2006.<br><br>
The focus of the Lubalin Center’s efforts, including the effort
represented<br>
by the former National Graphic Design Image Database, has been to<br>
disseminate material related to the history of visual communication in
the<br>
twentieth century and to encourage and support interdisciplinary studies
of<br>
visual history and communication. The present collaboration will
make this<br>
rich body of visual material and related scholarship available online
in<br>
ARTstor, where it will complement related graphic design materials from
a<br>
variety of sources. The audience for these highly valued materials
will<br>
include teachers, students, designers, and all students of the history
of<br>
visual communications, who will value having the ability to access,
browse,<br>
and make rich educational artistic uses of this valued resource.<br><br>
“The collection created by the Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design
and<br>
Typography represents a pioneering effort in the documentation and<br>
dissemination of graphic design history,” says Ellen Lupton, Curator
of<br>
Contemporary Design, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. “The
on-line<br>
collection is an invaluable and unequaled resource for designers,
students,<br>
and educators." Sheila de Bretteville, Professor of Graphic Design,
Yale<br>
University, adds that “an online resource devoted to the history as well
as<br>
the most advanced contemporary forms of graphic design is essential
to<br>
students, faculty and practitioners hungry for this visual
stimulation.<br>
ARTstor’s effort to resurrect the former National Graphic Design
Image<br>
Database would be a most needed and desired start!”<br><br>
In reaching this agreement, Mike Essl, full-time faculty member in
graphic<br>
design at Cooper Union, expressed his enthusiasm in collaborating
with<br>
ARTstor to make this important graphic design resource more broadly<br>
available for noncommercial artistic, pedagogical and artistic<br>
purposes. “The Lubalin Center is very pleased to be working with
ARTstor<br>
in making our online digital image archives more widely available to<br>
students and researchers in the field and excited to participate in
its<br>
representation of modern design content.” Max Marmor, ARTstor’s
Director<br>
of Collection Development, expressed ARTstor’s keen interest in this<br>
partnership. “The Lubalin Center’s graphic design collections, and
its<br>
admirable efforts to make them available in digital form, are
well-known.<br>
We at ARTstor are delighted to help in reviving the pioneering
effort<br>
embodied in the former National Graphic Design Image Database, and to
help<br>
make the Lubalin Center’s resources more readily available to
artists,<br>
teachers and students.”<br><br>
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, established
in<br>
1859, is among the nation's oldest and most distinguished institutions
of<br>
higher learning. The college, the legacy of Peter Cooper, occupies a<br>
special place in the history of American education. It is the only
private,<br>
full-scholarship college in the United States dedicated exclusively
to<br>
preparing students for the professions of art, architecture and<br>
engineering. Since opening in 1985, the Herb Lubalin Study Center
of<br>
Design and Typography has served as a hands-on research facility for<br>
students, faculty, design professionals and the public. The
facility has<br>
evolved into a multifaceted resource devoted to the documentation
and<br>
preservation of the history of graphic design.<br><br>
ARTstor was created in 2001 as a nonprofit initiative of The Andrew
W.<br>
Mellon Foundation, and is now an independent non-profit organization<br>
dedicated to serving education and scholarship in the arts and the<br>
humanities through the utilization of digital technologies.
Currently,<br>
more than 435 nonprofit institutions in the United States are
participating<br>
in ARTstor, and ARTstor anticipates making its library of digital
images<br>
available to nonprofit institutions outside of the United States as
well.<br>
For more information on ARTstor, see the ARTstor website at
<a href="http://www.artstor.org/" eudora="autourl">www.artstor.org</a>.
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