[Yulpub] ARTstor Announcement: Modern and Contemporary Art in ARTstor

[Hannah Bennett]

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:

                 1) tens of thousands of modern and contemporary artwork 
images ranging from "William Baziotes and Isabel Bishop to Jacob Lawrence 
and Kasimir           Malevich to Frank Lloyd Wright and Francisco 
Zuñiga."  This is a really good addition as many image databases have had 
difficulty in acquiring these            sorts of images.

                 2) several thousand high quality digital images of modern 
graphic design as a result of the collaboration between Herb Lubalin Study 
Center of Design at                and Typography (part of Cooper Union’s 
School of Art) and ARTstor. "This collaboration will focus initially on a 
digital design archive previously familiar to the              graphic 
design community as the National Graphic Design Image Database." ARTstor 
plans to have these available by the spring semester 2006.


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