Intute presents the 15 most recent Web resources for education and research added to our Visual Arts subject area 9 Feb 2010 03:30:00 GMT en-uk http://www.intute.ac.uk/visual/latest.html Logo for the Intute service http://www.intute.ac.uk/images/intute_100_new.png 100 42 http://www.intute.ac.uk/visual/latest.html http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20100122-01532019 http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20100122-01532019 The Asia Pacific Journal of Arts and Cultural Management is a full-text ejournal. It is produced by the International Graduate School of Management, University of South Australia. At January 2010 nine issues (2003-2009) are freely available, with articles offered in PDF format. Example article titles include: 'Arts, culture and the economy - a review of the practice as to how the arts and the economy are understood to interact'; 'The politics of exclusion: political censorship and the arts-as-industry paradigm'; and 'Renaissance or regurgitation? Arts policy in Singapore 1957-2003', among others. The journal will interest researchers in the creative industries and cultural economy, and will especially interest those investigating topics such as the arts and ethnicity in Vietnam, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand. The journal website has full details of the Editor, Editorial Board, and submission process. Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:00:01 GMT http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20100128-06433999 http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20100128-06433999 The Gamma 3D Meshes Research Database is a very large free repository of scanned 3D models. Use of the models is permitted in non-commercial and open source projects, and the model files are offered in mainstream 3D formats such as 3DS and OBJ. The database contains some 80,000 objects, and most seem to be of good usable quality - making the Database a useful resource to consult for those seeking free royalty-free 3D models, along with the free models in the Google 3D Warehouse. Database models have been created using GAMMA's automated scanning techniques and mesh generation algorithms. Most models are segmented and may be disassembled, meaning that parts from one model may be easily combined with parts from another - the 1,600 animal and insect models can thus serve as a very useful "monster construction kit", for instance. Files are freely accessible, but are downloadable only in the .GZ zip-file format - users will thus need free Windows software such as 7-Zip to unpack the 3D models these .GZ files contain. This database is a useful free resource for animators, filmmakers, illustrators and graphic novelists, and indeed any creative who needs an accurately-created rotatable 3D model for visual reference purposes or for animation. The GAMMA project has been developed by French universities, in collaboration with the University of Houston, the University of Colorado, the University of Minnesota, and Princeton. Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:00:01 GMT http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=vim-20100125-163443 http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=vim-20100125-163443 The Gertrude and Robert Metcalf Collection of Images of Stained Glass is an online database of almost 10,000 slides. The bulk of the glass featured in the collection dates from the 13th to the 16th centuries, with a few later pieces (chiefly 19th century reproductions). Details of the location and date of each window pictured are given. However, a considerable disadvantage of this resource is the lack of any effective search function: although users are able to sort the database in various ways, the large size of the collection (and a lack of total uniformity in the metadata) means that it is hard to locate works that meet specific criteria, though an external tool such as Google's 'search within a site or domain' feature might be of some assistance. Also available is biographical information about the Metcalfs, who were responsible for the original photography and cataloguing of the collection. Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:00:01 GMT http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20100123-02333627 http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20100123-02333627 DAZ Studio 3 is a popular consumer-level software application for the posing and animation of 3D human figures. The software can be downloaded and is wholly free. The content that users create with the software is royalty-free. As of January 2010, DAZ has also made all of its "base" 3D human figures available for free - and has done so on a permanent basis. All the DAZ figures can be realistically lit, posed, and animated inside the software, and then "rendered" (i.e.: made into a still picture or an animation). Several of the free figures are manga style or are superhero-style grotesques, but there is also a range of highly realistic human figures with normal proportions, such as the leading Victoria 4.2 and Michael 4.0 figures. Faces and hands are also completely posable. DAZ is now a useful free package for anyone who needs precisely posable human figures to create visual reference material. The base figures are nude, which may raise legal issues for users in some authoritarian countries. A sophisticated package designed for popular consumer use, this free software will be especially useful for figurative painters, illustrators, digital artists, graphic novelists, and also those needing clear printed 'pose guidance-sheets' for use in film and photo-shoots with live models. The software is available for Windows and Mac operating systems, and there are abundant free video tutorials available online. Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:00:01 GMT http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20071209-175943 http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20071209-175943 'BathHouse' is an online journal which "promotes interdisciplinary and hybrid arts with a special emphasis on language and innovation". The journal is edited and authored by current Creative Writing students at Eastern Michigan University. As well as the current issue, an archive of previous issues (full text) are available online. Many issues are based around themes, which in the past have included: Russian new media literature and art; "contagion"; and medicine. Each issue presents a mixture of: visual art; poetry; short fiction; and discussion, but the boundaries between these are often blurred. Poems are often accompanied by sound files of the poet reading the work. This is a varied and often though-provoking mixture of arts, which would appeal to creative writing and art students as well as interested readers. Sat, 16 Jan 2010 00:00:01 GMT http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=artifact5629 http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=artifact5629 This Web resource offers a searchable database of the Cultural Policy Collection at the University of Northumbria. This comprises the archives of Visual Arts UK 1996 (a celebration of the Visual Arts throughout the North of England), the English Regional Arts Boards (1967-2002) and Year of the Artist (YOTA) national award (1992-1999). The database is searchable by organisation, person or subject keyword and the results provide brief information about the archives. The collection is part of the University Library's Special Collections. Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:00:01 GMT http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20091207-12292413 http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20091207-12292413 Birkbeck research in representations of kinship and community (BRRKC) is the website of a research centre that encourages interdisciplinary study of the portrayal of relationships between human beings throughout history and culture. The disciplines drawn together by BRRKC include: literature; philosophy; film and visual culture; fine art; sociology; linguistics; history; and psychology. The website provides details of BRRKC-run : symposia; reading groups; and film screenings, as well as its discussion forum. Also available are details of courses taught by the centre, and a number of related links. The work of this centre would be of interest to students across disciplines, but particularly perhaps those focusing on English; cultural studies; or media studies. Mon, 4 Jan 2010 00:00:01 GMT http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20091231-11560185 http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20091231-11560185 Journal of Art Historiography is an open-access scholarly ejournal, published by the Institute for Art History at The University of Glasgow. At December 2009 only the first issue (Dec 2009) is online - a special themed issue on The Vienna School of Art History and German Art History. The articles are peer-reviewed, and are freely available for download in the PDF format. Example article titles include: 'Fritz Novotny and the new Vienna school of art history - an ambiguous relation'; 'Moriz Thausing and the road towards objectivity in the history of art'; 'An art history of means: Arendt-Benjamin', among others. The journal website has full details of the editors, Editorial Board, and submission process. The journal's stated aim is to ignore disciplinary boundaries, and the editors aim to publish two issues per year. Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:00:01 GMT http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20091231-11402674 http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20091231-11402674 Journal of Aesthetics & Culture is a open access ejournal, published by three editors who are based at universities in Sweden and Finland. The journal is supported by the Swedish Research Council and Stockholm University. Articles are in English, and can be freely read in either HTML, PDF or XML. Example article titles include: 'Ingmar Bergman in the museum? Thresholds, limits, conditions of possibility'; 'Antichrist – Chaos Reigns: the event of violence and the haptic image in Lars von Trier’s film'; and 'Thinking filming thinking filming', among others. The journal website has full details of the editors, Editorial Board, and the submissions process. This open ejournal is published under a Creative Commons licence. Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:00:01 GMT http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20091231-11310325 http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20091231-11310325 This Web page gives access to all issues of the 'V&A Online Journal', a free full-text research journal. This annual ejournal is published by the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. At December 2009 there are two issues online, with articles published as HTML pages. Example scholarly articles include: 'James "Athenian" Stuart: The Architect as Landscape Painter'; 'Doing Time: Patchwork as a Tool of Social Rehabilitation in British Prisons'; 'Computer Art at the V&A'; and 'The Film Work of Stage Designer Oliver Messel', among others. There are also book reviews and interviews. The website states that... "Inclusion is not restricted to V&A staff", and papers are invited from outside the museum. Full details of the editors and the submission process are available at the website. Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:00:01 GMT http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20091231-11251281 http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20091231-11251281 The Caxtonian is a free full-text journal of... "literature, the humanities, and books", produced by The Caxton Club of Chicago. The intended audience is... "bibliophiles, those in the books arts and trades, and lovers of reading and the written word". At December 2009 issues from 2001 to 2009 are freely available, for download as PDF files. Articles published in 2009 issues include: a lengthy survey of fine books published on the Great Platte River Road in the U.S.; an eight-page report on a conference about book crime; 'Medievalism, the Beautiful Book, and the Arts and Crafts Movement' (June 2009); and 'Collecting the Poetry of Thomas Hardy' (April 2009), among others. There is an index available for issues to 2005. Each issue also has a useful regular listing titled: 'Book and manuscript-related exhibitions: a selective list'. There are also interviews with members, and short notes of interest to the membership. Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:00:01 GMT http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20091230-14294582 http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20091230-14294582 This Web page gives free online access to Bonhams Magazine, the official quarterly magazine of Bonhams auction house. The magazine has articles examining items from fine art history, and a wide variety of the finest works of craftsmanship. At December 2009, issues from 13 to 21 (Winter 2009) are freely available online. Issues 13 to 15 have articles in PDF format, while more recent issues are presented as Flash-based "page-flip" online magazines. The magazine is elegantly designed and presented in a stylish manner. The magazine contains feature articles written by curators, dealers, valuers, and also art critics such as Matthew Collings and Brian Sewell. Example article topics include: Matthew Collings on Luc Tuymans' early self-portrait; Eric Knowles on the eccentricities of British art pottery; Mehreen Rizri-Khursheed on Arab artists; and Brian Sewell on the world’s oldest surviving Rolls-Royce, among many others. Articles are illustrated with large and crisp images of the works discussed, and pictures are shown without watermarks. This accessible yet scholarly magazine will be of interest to art historians - as well as to curators, gallerists, dealers, and contemporary artists. Wed, 30 Dec 2009 00:00:01 GMT http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=vim-2009113-105220 http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=vim-2009113-105220 Demotix is a user-led website, photo agency, and platform that allows anyone to upload their news-related images and stories to the website. Free registration is required to upload photographs and text. However, if Demotix can sell the images on to mainstream media, then the money received is split 50-50 with the photographer. Importantly, if the user chooses to remain anonymous, then they may do so, which means that 'citizen journalists' can tell stories in countries that professional journalists might find difficult to enter or write about. Copyright remains with the photographer. The website provides information about Demotix, a blog and a discussion forum, as well as enlargeable images (for which Flash is required) with accompanying text and tags, under the following headings: politics; economics; feature; culture; science; environment; sports; and 'odd'. News can also be browsed by region; results can be sorted by date, relevance or title; and a series of filters can be applied to any browse or search. As a user-generated website, it is possible to comment on photographs, share Demotix images, and run the Demotix widget on external websites. The Telegraph is quoted as saying that Demotix is "journalism for the 21st century" and it is certainly interesting to note that the organisation won the Media Guardian Award for Independent Media (MEGA) in March 2009. Mon, 14 Dec 2009 00:00:01 GMT http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20091207-08075031 http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20091207-08075031 The 'Unsung Heroines: Women Artists in Modern British Art' website has been provided by a commercial art gallery, Liss Fine Art, as a resource on many of the lesser known women artists working in Britain in the twentieth century. This website provides brief biographical information on over 50 female artists, including Laura Knight, Barbara Jones and the Zinkeisen sisters, Anna and Dora. There are also images of the works of these artists that have passed through the gallery. Information on the provenance, media and size are provided, together with background information on the picture where known. The site can be searched via the A-Z index, or by thumbnails of pictures for sale. Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:00:01 GMT http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20091206-21262131 http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20091206-21262131 The website for the Stadt Zürich (the City of Zurich) provides this online resource on the collections in the Museum Rietberg, the only art museum in Switzerland for non-European cultures. The collection is organised under the following countries: Africa, Ancient America, China, India, Japan, ancient orient, Islamic near east, Swiss masks, South East Asia, Oceania and Tibet. These collections are intended to raise interest and understanding of foreign cultures, views and religion, and are a growing resource thanks to their patrons and sponsors. A brief overview and image is provided for each section with contact details for the relevant staff member. Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:00:01 GMT