[Yulpub] ARTstor Message
Hannah Bennett
hannah.bennett at yale.edu
Mon Nov 27 11:39:06 EST 2006
Hello Yulpub -
(Beware - long message!)
Many of you have been helpful in letting me know what ARTstor
(www.artstor.org) collections you and your faculty use...so much so that I
wanted to send out a message summarizing what's what / what's new with
ARTstor. While you can easily find all this info from the ARTstor web site
yourselves, I wanted to call your attention to the collections with this
summary.
If you have any questions about ARTstor collections or how the database
works, how the presentation tool works, feel free to contact me or point
your faculty directly to me. I would also be willing to go over some of our
other digital image collections such as the Digital Library and Insight
collections.
Hannah
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The Image Gallery: ARTstor's charter collection with ~400,000 images and
not all are specific to art/architecture. These images come from various
places and are derivatives of a wide variety of media...35 mm slides,
photographs, books, original artwork, etc. Below is a list of all the
collections included in the Image Gallery only. I have noted in bold
purple those collections that are still in development. I have also noted
other places where select collections are available, e.g. our Insight
Collections, freely available online, etc.
- ACSAA Collection = American Council for Southern Asian
Art Color Slide Collection (University of Michigan): ~ 5,000 images with
an additional 7,000 images to be released later this year or in
early 2007. To locate these images most readily, do a keyword search for
"ACSAA."
- Andrew Dickson White Collection of Architectural
Photographs (Cornell University Library): ~1,400 images of 19th- and early
20th-century photographs of architecture, decorative arts and
sculpture in Europe and U.S. Do a keyword search for "Dickson and Cornell."
- Art, Archaeology and Architecture from Erich Lessing
Culture and Fine Arts Archives (Vienna): 300 of the slated 10,000 high
quality images are currently available. Covers world art and
architecture, with focus on key artists of the major European schools and
collections of the major European museums outside Italy. Do a
keyword search for “Erich Lessing.”
- ARTstor Slide Gallery: The University of San Diego
allowed ARTstor to digitize significant portions (~180,000) of its
professionally cataloged slide library.
- Contemporary Art from the Larry Qualls Archive: 3,000 of
the slated100,000 images from the Larry Qualls Archive are now
available. This collection covers New York City contemporary art
exhibitions in the last quarter of the 20th century and the early years of
the 21st, documenting prominent, emerging, and aspiring
artists. Do a keyword search for "qualls".
- Cuban Heritage Collections (University of Miami
Library): Includes the Manuel R. Bustamante Photograph Collection and the
Cuban Postcard Collection are included. You can also freely
access these collections here:
http://digital.library.miami.edu/chcdigital/digitalcoll.shtml
- Farber Gravestone Collection (American Antiquarian
Society): includes ~13,500 images of funerary sculpture on more than 9,000
early American grave markers, mostly made prior to 1800. There
is some focus on the Middle Atlantic and southeastern United States, the
Maritime Provinces of Canada, and Great Britian. This collection
is also available through YUL's Insight subscription. Do a keyword
search for "Farber."
- First Fleet Collection (Natural History Museum, London):
~630 images: “The First Fleet Collection" consists of watercolors by
prisoners and sailors associated with the "First Fleet" of
convicts that left England in 1787 for New South Wales, Australia. The
pictures form a record of the earliest scenes, people, plants,
and wildlife encountered by the first European settlers in Australia. Do
keyword search for "First Fleet."
- Ghiberti’s “Gates of Paradise”: ~800 images of the
recently restored bronze doors on the east side of the Florentine
Baptistery, universally known as the “Gates of Paradise” (in
Italian, “Porta del Paradiso”). ARTstor is sponsoring the comprehensive
photographic documentation of the Gates of Paradise in
their newly restored state. This photographic campaign with
nearly 800 details of Ghiberti's relief sculptures. Do a keyword search
for "GHIBERTI QUATTRONE" which will retrieve only these new
photographs (produced photographer Antonio Quattrone).
- Giza Archaeological Expedition Archive (Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston): ~22,000 images of the MFA's pioneering series of
archeological excavations at Giza, Egypt from 1902 to 1947. Do a
keyword search for "Giza AND Boston."
- Hill Ornithology Collection (Cornell University
Library): ~200 images of ornithological illustration in the 18th and 19th
centuries.
- Historic American Sheet Music Covers (Allan Kohl,
Minneapolis College of Art and Design): These images of sheet music cover
the late 19th and early 20th centuries (1898-1923). Do a keyword
search for "sheet music."
- Illuminated Manuscript Collection (Princeton University
Library): (3,417 images) As part of the Index for Christian Art project,
this initiative includes the digitization of 200
manuscripts classified by the Index of Christian Art. This is an ongoing
project to catalog 400 of the 500 Medieval and
Renaissance manuscripts contained in the collection of the
Princeton University Library, and to digitize the illuminated leaves from
these manuscripts. Do a keyword search for "INDEX OF
CHRISTIAN ART."
Islamic Art and Architecture Collection (Shelia Blair,
Jonathan Bloom, Walter Denny): ~5,500 images available of the slated 25,000
images; ARTstor is collaborating with these three faculty on the
digitization of images of the art and architecture of Islam from the
personal archives of this team; focuses include Iran and
Central Asia, the art and architecture produced under the Mongols,
calligraphy and books. Islamic art and architecture, the history of
paper, art in the medieval Mediterranean world, the
artistic traditions of the Ottoman Turks, Islamic carpets and textiles, and
issues of economics and patronage in Islamic art. Do a keyword
search on SHEILA BLAIR or JONATHAN BLOOM or WALTER DENNY.
- Italian and other European Art from Scala Archives:
~1,100 images available of the slated 12,000; In collaboration with Art
Resource and Scala Archives (Florence, Italy), ARTstor will
produce European art and architecture digital images with a special focus
on the archaeology, art and architecture of Italy and on the
collections of the major museums of Italy and other European countries.
- Museum Contributions: Also available through Yale's
Insight "AMICA" (aka AMICO 4.0) collection. ~100,000 images. Many of the
museum images currently in ARTstor (about 100,000 at present)
were originally part of the AMICO library. Over 20 major art museums are
represented in this collection.
- Southeast Asia Visions: John M. Echols Collection
(Cornell University Library): ~10,000 images. Collection of European travel
accounts of Southeast Asia dating between 1630 and 1930, from
Cornell University Library's John M. Echols Collection and Rare and
Manuscript Collections. This collection provides online
access to the visual content of more than 350 books and journal articles
written in English and French providing a comprehensive visual
representation of Southeast Asia as recorded by Europeans. Do a
keyword search on "VISIONS and CORNELL."
- Tenniel Civil War Cartoon Collection (Allan Kohl,
Minneapolis College of Art and Design): ~55 images.
- Vesalius Anatomical Illustrations (Daniel Garrison,
Northwestern University): 275 images; taken from Andreas Vesalius'
pioneering treatise on human anatomy, entitled On the Fabric of
the Human Body (De humani corporis fabrica; first published in 1543)
The Art History Survey Collection: ~4,000 images This survey collection has
been defined on the basis of an "overlap concordance" based on 13 standard
art history survey texts. Images are derived from 35mm-color photography,
much of it original photography produced from the object or monument, but
some from high-quality reproductions in the scholarly literature.
Carnegie Arts of the United States: ~4,200 images documenting American art,
Native American art, architecture, visual and material culture. In 1956,
Lamar Dodd, then chairman of the University of Georgia School of Art,
initiated the "Study of Arts of the United States" with funding from the
Carnegie Corporation. The Study's objective was to employ state-of-the-art
technology to create an image collection that would support the teaching of
American art and history. Dodd recruited an advisory board of six
internationally recognized scholars, who in turn enlisted 17 specialists to
select a large body of examples of American architecture, painting,
sculpture, graphic arts, the decorative arts, costume design, photography,
the theater, and Native American art. The archival set of 4x5 color
negatives has been digitized for distribution within ARTstor. The libraries
of the University of Georgia and Yale University have jointly prepared
online cataloging information for each image.
Hartill Archive of Architecture and Allied Arts: ~17,000 images taken from
the archival slide collection of Hartill Art Associates, Inc. Focuses on
architectural history of the Western world from earliest antiquity through
the present, and from the Middle East to the Americas. Particular focus is
on European medieval architecture and sculpture of the Romanesque and
Gothic periods with modern architecture and sculpture "well represented."
Huntington Archive of Asian Art: ~12,000 images selected and digitized from
the John C. and Susan L. Huntington Archive of Buddhist and Related Art at
Ohio State University. Countries covered in the collection include India,
Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, China, Japan,
Thailand, Indonesia, and Myanmar. Works photographed date from 3000 B.C.
through the present. (Not to be confused with the Mellon International
Dunhuang Archive.)
Illustrated Bartsch: ~50,000 images of old master European prints
(engravings, etchings, woodcuts, etc.) from the 15th Century to the early
19th Century. The collection is derived from The Illustrated Bartsch (96
volumes, Norwalk, Ct., Abaris Books, 1978 - ). The original Bartsch is
based on Adam von Bartsch's (1757-1821) authoritative but unillustrated
catalog of old master prints. The digitized collection presently offers all
of the images (scanned mostly from 5x7 in. black-and-white photographic
prints, made directly from the original prints) and cataloging information
found in this authoritative reference work edited by general Editor Walter
L. Strauss (1922 - 1988).
Mellon International Dunhuang Archive (MIDA): Several thousand digital
images are the product of a major and ongoing multi-institutional,
multi-national effort to create digital reconstructions of the mural
paintings and related art and texts associated with the several hundred
Buddhist cave shrines in Dunhuang, China. A second component involves
digital images from direct digital photography of the sacred and secular
scrolls, manuscripts, textiles and other objects once located at Dunhuang
and now dispersed among museums and libraries around the world (e.g., the
British Library, the British Museum, the Musée Guimet, the Bodleian
Library, and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France.) A third component
involves the digitization from the Lo Archive in Princeton of 2,500 black
and white historic negatives of the cave shrines taken in the 1940's.
MoMA Digital Design Collection: ~8,000 images of objects from the
Department of Architecture and Design of The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in
New York. The collection includes architectural drawings, models, and
photographs, graphic design materials such as posters, and
three-dimensional objects such as appliances, furniture, tableware, tools,
textiles, and sports cars.
Native American Art and Culture Collection: 1) ~10,000 high-resolution
images made from historic glass plate negatives documenting Native American
subjects (portraits, scenes, etc.) produced under the auspices of the
Smithsonian's Bureau of American Ethnology (BAE) beginning in the late 19th
century. 2) ~ 2,000 images of Plains Indian ledger drawings. Produced in
the middle to late decades of the 19th century, these drawings represent an
important indigenous artistic tradition of great and increasing interest to
art historians and other scholars.
The Schlesinger History of Women in America Collection: ~36,000 images is
the product of a partnership between ARTstor and the Arthur and Elizabeth
Schlesinger Library, Harvard University. These images represent the work of
both professional and amateur artistic and documentary photographers,
including the work of many women photographers as well as men. Portraits of
women's work in domestic service, agriculture, and needlework, their
employment in factories, and opportunities in clerical work, nursing,
medicine, and teaching, are included. The photographic archive richly
documents key participants in the women's suffrage movement and larger
women's rights movement, as well as women involved in organized labor and
vocational training. The collection includes images of diverse women,
including African Americans, Asians and other immigrants. It also includes
materials related to women artists, such as sculptor and inventor Harriet
Hosmer (1830-1908). These images provide a unique kind of documentation of
women's history, which ARTstor makes much more easily accessible to
educators and scholars.
And then...what's coming up in ARTstor Collections...again, you can easily
find this on-line but to summarize notable news in the last month or so...
* ARTstor, in partnership with the <http://www.sah.org/>Society of
Architectural Historians, is pleased to announce its sponsorship of a
forthcoming Guide to Best Practice for the use of Quick Time Virtual
Reality (QTVR) in documenting archaeological, architectural and other
cultural heritage sites. <http://www.iath.virginia.edu/>The Institute for
Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH) at the University of Virginia
is coordinating the production of this much-needed guide.
* ARTstor recently sponsored a photographic campaign by Rob Wilkinson
and Colleen Chartier of <http://www.artonfile.com/>ART on FILE a primary
supplier of images to libraries and visual resources collections supporting
teaching programs in contemporary architecture, urban design, landscape
architecture and public art. ARTstor and ART on FILE have now reached an
agreement to digitize afresh, at very high resolution, the entire ART on
FILE archive of images which will be made available as part of the ARTstor
Digital Library.
* ARTstor has reached an agreement with Carl and Jennifer Strom of
Topanga, California, through which ARTstor will digitize and distribute the
unique Strom Archive of the art and architecture of Korean Buddhist
monasteries. The Strom Archive will significantly strengthen and deepen
ARTstor’s already strong collections of Asian Art.
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