Art & Design Research @ Leeds
http://www.lmu.ac.uk/as/artdesresearch/
This website outlines research in art and design at Leeds Metropolitan University. It includes details of current research projects, and where appropriate, links to websites for these projects. Research is interdisciplinary and includes: 'Writing Pad' - research into good writing practice in art and design higher education; 'Human Powered Urban Mobility'; 'Why are We Waiting' research into design for waiting; Reviews of community design projects in Leeds; 'City Arboretum' - investigating the experience of nature in the city; 'Seconds' - an online publishing project; 'LSX Leeds Unknown' - symposia on the overlap between urban planning, media technologies and graphic design. There are profiles of research staff and titles of students' projects.
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Art Fund prize, The
http://www.artfundprize.org.uk/
This is the website of The Art Fund Prize, an award from the UK's leading independent art charity made to a museum or gallery in the UK. This prize was formerly sponsored by the UK Branch of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, The Gulbenkian Prize. The first Art Fund Prize for museums and galleries will be awarded in May 2008. The website includes details of the ten recommended exhibitions and institutions, comments from the judges, comments from the public, as well as links for anyone to have their say in the lead-up to the long-list being whittled down to four, and then the winner announced during Museum's month each year.
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Art of Penguin science fiction
http://www.penguinsciencefiction.org/
'The Art of Penguin Science Fiction' is a website showcasing the history Penguin Books' science fiction cover art. The site is navigated initially visually, from a homepage consisting of thumbnails of the book covers. Once users have navigated away from the homepage, the site takes on more of the structure of a book, with covers and descriptions available via an index or a contents list. The site focuses mainly on the period 1935 - 1977, dividing this into design phases, with a general introduction to all, and a specific introduction to each phase. Covers are shown as small images, accompanied by a brief explanation contextualising the design or artwork within the main history. Covers can be viewed by title as well as within historical context, making it easy to compare designs across the decades. This is a site that would appeal to students or teachers of graphic design, as well as publishing history.
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Art on the line
http://www.waspjournals.com/journals/artontheline/index/index.html
This website contains the first two freely available issues of Art on the Line a journal for historians of visual culture. Wide ranging in scope, it sees its position as considering the margins of art history, and its contents reflect this, aiming to cover little studied areas of the discipline. Each issue can be browsed by headings and abstract, and the full text is available as PDF files.
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Artistri
http://www.artistri.co.uk/
Artistri is an online commercial art gallery which aims to showcase the best in modern art from graduates and undergraduates of Scottish art schools. Artists featured are listed alphabetically, with biographical details, and enlargable thumbnail images of their work. It is also possible to browse the website by the following categories: Abstract, Figurative, Landscapes, and Photography. A search facility is also available. Full details of how to order artworks featured are provided on the website.
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ArtsConnectEd
http://www.artsconnected.org/
ArtsConnectEd is an online gateway for teachers and students to access the combined educational resources of the Walker Art Center and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and other selected Internet resources. The website provides a searchable art database called 'Art Finder' which incorporates text, images, audio, video and interactive resources searchable by keyword, institution, culture, artist and other categories. Users can register free to create an 'Art Collector' profile, where searched and selected resources from 'Art Finder', can be stored and reviewed.Other content on the website includes; teacher information, an educational database and a teacher's guide to ArtsConnectEd, which is downloadable in PDF format; a library and archive, which provides RealAudio artist interviews from the Walker Art Center dating from 1956-1977; and a 'playground' with online activities related to art - some of which will require Shockwave, QuickTime or Flash plug-in.
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Assemblage : the women's new media gallery
http://tracearchive.ntu.ac.uk/traced/guertin/assemb_a-f.htm
The Assemblage website, part of Nottingham Trent University's trAce programme, is a showcase for women's new media art. The aesthetic ethos is distinctly post-modern, drawing on the theoretical writings of thinkers such as Derrida and Benjamin, and the artistic legacy of Duchamp. As a result, Assemblage is eclectic about genre and style, including in its remit prose, poetry, visual art, textual/visual art and theoretical texts. There is a unifying aspect, however - an awareness of how new technology shapes, and even dictates, expression. The work is thus highly self-conscious and unafraid to cross generic boundaries. At the time of review this rather confusing site hadn't been updated since 2005 and many of the links were broken.
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Banana cake
http://www.bananacake.org.uk/
The Banana cake is a not-for-profit website which aims to showcase the work of some of the best new contemporary UK art photographers. As such the website features a number of online portfolios, which include details of each photographer featured. Other sections of the site include writings and articles on current events in the photography world, covering reviews, interviews, photography prizes, press releases and exhibitions, amongst others. Details are also provided regarding the website's submission guidelines for practising photographers wishing to showcase their work. A links page can also be found on the website.
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BBC : arts & culture
http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/
This website is the arts page for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). It provides news, reviews, events information and links to related sites. The home page gives the latest arts-related news and provides the opportunity to sign up for an email newsletter or to contribute to the message board. The arts area consists of sections in the following subjects: books & writing, dance, drama & theatre, films, painting & sculpture, photography and poetry. Each section is further subdivided. The Web guide provides links to other BBC subject areas and external links to arts related sites. There is a writing room with tips for creative writers, directories for arts-related podcasts and BBC programmes on iPlayer (requiring Flash plug-in) as well as short artists' films and excerpts from BBC radio programmes.
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CENDEAC (Center of Documentation and Advanced Studies of Contemporary Art)
http://www.cendeac.net/eng/
This is the website for CENDEAC (Center for Contemporary Art Documentation and Advanced Research). A joint venture between Murcia regional government and Cajamurcia Foundation in Spain, the Centre aims to "gather the biggest bibliographic collection on contemporary art in the Mediterranean area, providing a structure, within the regional scene, that allows CENDEAC to become the most outstanding research centre on that discipline across the nation". The Centre's work is organised around three main areas - scientific activities, publications and the reference centre, all of which are detailed in the website. Also included in the website are sections on News, the Library, and a Links page. The site is fully searchable and is also available in Spanish.
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Chagall windows : Hadassah hospital Jerusalem
http://www.md.huji.ac.il/chagall/chagall.html
The Chagall Windows webpage is an online exhibition of the stained glass windows designed by Marc Chagall for the Synagogue of the Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center in Jerusalem. The windows were created using a special process of veneering pigment on glass which allowed Chagall to use as many as three colours on a single uninterrupted pane, rather than being confined to the traditional technique of separating each colour pane by lean strips. The text also describes the inspiration behind the design.
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China posters online : University of Westminster
http://home.wmin.ac.uk/china_posters/
This site provides access to a collection of several hundred Chinese posters which are held by the Centre for the Study of Democracy at the University of Westminster. They cover the period 1960-1990 and encompass a wide range of themes relating to Chinese political and social history of the period including: Chinese Communist party propaganda; images of Chairman Mao; the cultural revolution; the Red Army; Chinese foreign policy; images of the West; and the position of women in Communist China. The material is arranged into thematic lists which may be browsed. Alternatively the database can be searched by subject keyword. All items have catalogue records which provide information about the date and artist. Some background information on the history and context of the posters is also provided. The collection has received funding from the AHRC.
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Claremont colleges digital library
http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/
Claremont Colleges Digital Library is an online collection of digitised materials from the libraries of the Claremont Colleges. The collections, which include video and still images, are diverse and include: over 200 prints from the Ponoma College Museum's collection of prints by Francisco Goya; oral history on the US occupation of Japan; woodblock prints by Chikanobu and Yoshitoshi; drawings by Edward Vischer; and a number of photographic collections. All items are catalogued in some detail, including controlled subject headings and descriptions, and may be accessed by: browsing by collection; or searching using any search field. This is a well-presented set of collections which is being added to on a regular basis.
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Columbus monuments pages
http://columbus.vanderkrogt.net/
Compiled by an enthusiast, this website lists the locations of over 200 monuments erected all over the world to honour Christopher Columbus and/or his 1492 voyage to America. They are arranged alphabetically by country and then by town, and also chronologically. Information provided includes artist and year the monument was erected. There are links to some other sites about Columbus.
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Credo reference
http://corp.credoreference.com/
Credo Reference (CredoReference formerly Xrefer) is a digital reference library containing the texts and images from over 150 printed reference works. There are over a million separate entries in total. Credo reference covers the full spectrum of academic and general interest subjects, with the arts and humanities well represented. Reference works include various dictionaries, thesauri, books of quotations, atlases, plus subject specific titles. History titles include works such as Routledge's Companion to British History and various Who's Who titles; there is also the Dictionary of British History, the Encyclopaedia of the Renaissance; and a Concise Atlas of World History. For philosophers there is the Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, the Macmillan Dictionary of Philosophy, plus the Bloomsbury Guide to Human Thought. A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics is also provided. For students of literature there is a Dictionary of Shakespeare, the Bloomsbury Dictionary of English Literature, The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English, and the Cambridge Guide to Theatre. An Atlas of the Bible and the Macmillan Dictionary of the Bible, along with a Who's Who of Old and New Testament characters provide useful reference resources for Bible scholars. There are also a couple of resources that might be useful to Classicists. All volumes may be search simultaneously, or searches may be narrowed to a particular subject area, or a particular reference work. Many entries contain hyperlinks across reference works to related subjects of interest. Credo reference is a subscription service and is available to higher and further education institutions in the UK under a license agreement negotiated by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC).
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CUPID
http://www.cupid.culture.info/
"CUPID is an online database of cultural projects that have received funding from European Union funding programmes." The database is an initiative of EUCLID UK, the official UK Cultural Contact Point and member of Euclid International. It currently contains details of projects funded under the Culture 2000 scheme between 1999 and 2004. The database can be searched by keyword or by selecting criteria, such as funding body, year, cultural area or country. Cultural areas include the visual arts and the performing arts. It is also possible to submit details of projects for inclusion in the database.
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Doppelganger magazine
http://www.doppelgangermagazine.com/
Doppelganger magazine is an online journal based in Vancouver, which is published nine times a year. First published in 2005, the journal aims to publish "lively, intelligent and critical" writing on visual art and literature. In particular, the journal examines the boundaries between the two practices, how they correspond and are inter-related. The journal covers a range of visual arts-related material including film and photography. The website includes an archive, which includes the last six issues published. Some articles are available in PDF format.
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Early twentieth-century Russian drama
http://max.mmlc.northwestern.edu/~mdenner/Drama/
Originally developed by Andrew Wachtel and two of his colleagues as a "virtual textbook" intended to accompany a course on Russian modernist theatre at Northwestern University, this website was subsequently enhanced for a wider audience online. Its straightforward design belies a rich and complex seam of data on the artists, designers, playwrights, directors and impresarios at the heart of the groundbreaking theatrical scene in Russia from the turn of the twentieth century until after the Revolution. The website presents four main points of access to its resources: Designers, Plays, Visual Arts and Directors, covering artists including: Natalia Goncharova; Vladimir Tatlin; Alexandra Exter; Vsevolod Meyerhold; Alexander Tairov; and Konstantin Stanislavsky. Each section cross-references the others, and all are richly illustrated with production photographs, designs, sketches and stage directions. Individual plays and productions are described, as are specific developments such as Constructivism, and searches on individual artists and works can be made across the site from the home page. Video and audio clips are included. The website also contains a good list of links to Internet resources in English on Russian drama.
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Erlange Liste
http://www.erlangerliste.de/
Published by the University of Erlangen, the German-language Erlange Liste features sets of annotated links on literature; visual arts; photography; encyclopedias; and dictionaries. The site is part of the Germanistik im Internet platform. Other pages, entitled 'Digital Editions,' are devoted to: Baroque lyrics, with glossaries and lyrical translations from other languages into German; annotated links to relevant research sites; details on the life and works of the German poet Johann Peter Uz (1720-1796); parodies in lyrics and literature, along with pages on German artists noted in this genre; the influence of Arthur Rimbaud on German Expressionism; and a page that allows users to search a number of German newspapers directly. Each subsite provides links to full text historical sources and extensive analyses in German that will aid researchers. Some of the subpages led to broken links at the time of review.
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First call
http://www.library.georgetown.edu/dept/speccoll/amposter.htm
First Call was an exhibition of American World War One posters from the Collection of Roger N. Mohovich, held November 1999 to February 2000, in the Fairchild Memorial Gallery of Georgetown University Library, America. The site includes an introduction to a history of the purposes of the posters; information on the artists; and links to thumbnail images of the posters.
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Francisco Goya prints
http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/col/fgp/
This website is part of the Claremont Colleges Digital Library homepage, and showcases the collection of prints of Spanish artist Francisco Goya, held by the Pomona College Museum of Art. Over 200 etchings are available to browse in this online collection, comprised from four series of work, Los Caprichos (1799), Los Desastres de la Guerra (1810-20), Los Disparates (1815-24), and La Tauromaquia (1815-16). The subject matter covers war, vice and corruption in 18th and 19th century Spain, witchcraft, and prostitution. The database of Goya prints can be searched by a number of fields including title, artist, subject, description, genre and format, amongst others. The option to browse is also available. Each print can be enlarged by section, with full descriptive details provided.
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Hawaii international conference on arts and humanities : proceedings
http://www.hichumanities.org/proceedings_hum.htm
This Web page of the Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities website gives access to the full-text proceedings of the annual conference, for the years 2004 to 2008. At June 2009 it appears that some of the papers for the 2009 conference are also online, in advance of the conference itself. Proceedings are offered as PDF files, usually with a single PDF collecting all the conference papers for that year. This means that Proceeding files are very large, and are usually over 70Mb. It is not immediately clear how to browse these very large PDFs once they are downloaded and opened - one usually has to go to the front page and click the button "Browse full text", rather than use the normal Acrobat sidebar index. Individual PDF papers from the 2003 conference are also available, although do not seem to be listed on the website - they can be found by searching Google for: keyword site:www.hichumanities.org/AHproceedings/ This is a rich resource, offering over 500 PDF articles and proceeding books, but one that is awkwardly and patchily presented to potential readers.
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Institute for Capitalising on Creativity
http://www.capitalisingoncreativity.ac.uk/
The Institute for Capitalising on Creativity is a consortium consisting of a college of art, a conservatoire, an ancient and a new university. The Institute was formed to address the need for specific management training for Scotland's creative talent, and hopes to play a key role in boosting the creative industries in Scotland. The consortium members include: the School of Management, University of St Andrews; Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee; University of Abertay; and the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. The website provides information about the Institute's research (including the AHRC/ESRC funded workshops 'The Discipline of Creativity: Exploring the Paradox') news and events, and the postgraduate programme in Creativity Industries.
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Irish arts review
http://www.irishartsreview.com/
The 'Irish Arts Review' is an established contemporary arts review magazine for Ireland, published quarterly. At April 2009, a substantial number of full-text articles are available for free. Also freely available is a useful and current diary of events and a directory of Web links to galleries. The website offers full information about this elegant 150-page magazine, its aims and editors, and its back issues and subscription rates. Subscription are accompanied by a free copy of 'The Annual Price Guide to Irish Art'. Example titles of freely-available articles are: 'Not Just Pots! Contemporary Irish Ceramics at the National Museum'; 'A Regal Blaze: Harry Clarke’s depiction of Synge’s Queens'; and 'The Irish art market 1984-2004', among others. Some reviews are also freely available. This will be a useful starting point for those interested in Irish art and artists.
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Kateigaho international edition : Japan's arts and culture magazine
http://int.kateigaho.com/
The website of the Kateigaho International Edition: Japan's Arts and Culture Magazine introduces the English-language version of this quarterly magazine of richly illustrated and accessible features on Japanese arts, culture and lifestyle. Extracts, brief summaries, and some complete articles (with images) from back issues since the magazine began in 2003 are available on the site. Full texts of the original Japanese articles from the current issue can also be downloaded in PDF format. The website will be more useful to students and those with a general interest in Japan than to specialist researchers. Subscriptions to the print version and to an E-mail newsletter can be made via the site. The site can be accessed in English and Japanese versions.
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