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Asia Pacific journal of arts and cultural management
http://www.ojs.unisa.edu.au/index.php/ARTMJ
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.
Added: 2010-01-30More details
Gamma 3D meshes research database
http://www-roc.inria.fr/gamma/gamma/download/download.php
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.
Added: 2010-01-28More details
Gertrude and Robert Metcalf collection of images of stained glass
http://ica.princeton.edu/metcalf/
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.
Added: 2010-01-25More details
DAZ studio 3
http://www.daz3d.com/i.x/software/studio/
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.
Added: 2010-01-23More details
Bathhouse
http://bhjournal.com/
'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.
Added: 2010-01-16More details
[University of Northumbria Cultural Policy Collection]
http://www.northumbriacpc.org.uk/
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.
Added: 2010-01-15More details
Birkbeck research in representations of kinship and community (BRRKC)
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/brrkc/
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.
Added: 2010-01-04More details
Journal of art historiography
http://www.gla.ac.uk/departments/arthistoriography/
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.
Added: 2009-12-31More details
Journal of aesthetics & culture
http://journals.sfu.ca/coaction/index.php/jac
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.
Added: 2009-12-31More details
V&A online journal
http://www.vam.ac.uk/res_cons/research/online_journal/index.html
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.
Added: 2009-12-31More details
Caxtonian, The
http://www.caxtonclub.org/caxtonian.html
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.
Added: 2009-12-31More details
Bonhams magazine
http://www.bonhams.com/cgi-bin/public.sh/pubweb/publicSite.r?screen=magazinecont
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.
Added: 2009-12-30More details
Demotix
http://www.demotix.com/
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.
Added: 2009-12-14More details
Unsung heroines : women artists in modern British art
http://www.unsungheroines.com/
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.
Added: 2009-12-11More details
Stadt Zürich : kultur
http://www.stadt-zuerich.ch/content/kultur/en/index/institutionen/museum_rietber
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.
Added: 2009-12-11More details
Collector's choice : J. Paul Getty and his antiquities
http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/collectors_choice/
The website for the Getty Museum has provided this online version of their exhibition 'Collector's Choice: J. Paul Getty and his Antiquities', which ran at the Getty villa from 18 November 2009 to 8 February 2010. Drawn from the museum's collections the exhibition featured frescoes, mosaics, engravings, photographs and letters, which explore the founder's personality and taste as a collector. Featured on the website are items from his collection of Greek and Roman sculptures to illustrate distinguished provenances, Getty's preferences and celebrated advisors. Reference is also made to his decision to build a Roman villa on his Malibu property. Audio files are provided on one of Getty's favourite sculptures, and a short story that he wrote about a bust of Roman woman is also included. Also provided is an audio file of a 1950s radio interview with J. Paul Getty.
Added: 2009-12-11More details
Jeff Koons
http://www.jeffkoons.com/
This website features the work of the American artist, Jeff Koons, who is best known for his giant, often brightly coloured reproductions of objects such as inflatable animals. Images of his art can be found by clicking on the side menu. An exhibition history is also provided together with literature where available. Other sections of the website list solo and group exhibitions of his work; a bibliography of monographs, books, periodicals and a discography. The biography section provides a chronology of his education, awards and honours, as well as a list of museums, foundations and corporations who have examples of his work.
Added: 2009-12-11More details
Beyond the book
http://www.beyondthebookproject.org/
Beyond the Book is the project website for the AHRC-funded research project, Beyond the Book: Mass Reading Events and Contemporary Cultures of Reading in the UK, USA and Canada, which was a three-year interdisciplinary project, from 2005-2008. A collaboration between scholars at the University of Birmingham and Mount Saint Vincent University in Canada, the study researched a selection of 21st-century reading events which employ mass media, TV and radio, and city-wide reading projects that employ the 'One Book, One Community' model. The website contains news about the project, publications, information about the conference held in 2007, links to reading-related sites, contact details, a blog and a Team Reads section. It also hosted the online questionnaire used to collect quantitative data during the main phase of the project. The site will be maintained and updated until at least August 2011.
Added: 2009-12-11More details
Kuniyoshi project
http://www.kuniyoshiproject.com/
The Kuniyoshi project is an online catalogue of the works of Japanese artist Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1798-1861). Based on a similar project of the works of Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1865), by Horst Graebner, which is referenced here, it is a subject catalogue of many of Kuniyoshi's woodblock prints. Organised by subject, such as warriors and historical people; animal and plant prints; children; landscapes; women; sumo wrestler prints; and fan prints, the website provides detailed information about each print.
Added: 2009-12-11More details
Musei-zapovednik 'Abramtsevo'
http://abramtsevo.net/
Musei-zapovednik 'Abramtsevo' is the website of the Abramtsevo museum, which once hosted a colony of influential artists seeking to revive Russian traditional culture. The site offers a guided tour of the estate's buildings, including: the famous 'hut on chicken legs'; the beautiful church created by Vasnetsov and Polenov; the exhibition hall which displays twentieth century Russian art, and the arts and crafts department which exhibits traditional decorative and applied arts. There are also: illustrated biographies of the artists in the Abramtsevo circle; a history of Abramtsevo estate; contact details and information for visitors (including details of current exhibitions, some of which promote contemporary art). This easy-to-navigate resource has a full English language version, and will be of most interest to students and teachers of Russian nineteenth and early twentieth century art and culture.
Added: 2009-12-08More details
1807 commemorated
http://www.york.ac.uk/1807commemorated/
This website, from the 1807 Commemorated Project, at the University of York, and the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council, provides a 'resource website for museum practitioners, consultants, outreach officers and all those with an interest in, or connection to, the heritage sector in Britain'. The website aims to 'ensure that future policies and practices within museums, libraries and archives are shaped and informed by the experiences of museum staff, consultants, communities and audiences who engaged with the marking of the bicentenary of the abolition of the slave trade'. The website contains information and suggestions for developing exhibitions, working with the communities in which the museums are situated, and the roles of curators. The website is easily navigated and simply designed and aims to make the process of collection-building, presentation and preservation a more academic and rigorous process.
Added: 2009-12-03More details
MAK collections : poster
http://sammlungen.mak.at/sdb/do/sammlung.state?id=1&langSelect=en
The website of the MAK in Vienna has provided this online catalogue of posters in their collections of applied and contemporary art. There are over 14,000 images in this collection and they can be viewed via a number of subject headings, such as architecture, education, festivity, food, locomotion, politics and tourism. Many of the subject headings contain sub-headings enabling a more selective search. Information, such as title, designer, date and size, for each image can be found by clicking on the thumbnail picture. The information provided for each image is in German - although the subject headings, and indeed the whole site is available in English and German.
Added: 2009-12-01More details
Challenging craft
http://www2.rgu.ac.uk/challengingcraft/ChallengingCraft/challengingcraft/challen
This website contains the online proceedings of an international three-day conference on new technologies and crafts, held in 2004 at the Robert Gordon University in Edinburgh. Conference themes included: digital practice / craft practice; craft within architectural environments; craft in theory; craft articulating culture; and consumption and interpretation, among others. 40 full-text refereed papers are freely available in PDF form, and these include: 'Hybrid makers: the role of rapid prototyping in jewellery and metalsmithing'; 'Something old - something new: The marriage of digital craft'; 'Tangled space: close contact in architectural space'; 'What happens when the Baby Boomers retire: where are the young artisans?'; and 'Looking over craft design: memory as an instrument of building new aesthetics', among others. This will be a useful free resource for those seeking articles on the uses of new technologies in craft making. The website also contains details of the committee and sponsors. A conference CD-ROM is available to order, containing multimedia presentations.
Added: 2009-11-29More details
Montage
http://www.uiowa.edu/~montage/
Montage is a full-text ejournal on topics in the history of art and architecture. It is published online by the University of Iowa Art History Society, offering scholarly articles, book reviews and exhibition reviews, all written by graduate students from across the U.S.A. At November 2009 the journal has published two issues, ranging broadly across art history, film, architecture, and even archaeology. Example article titles include: 'Pika-Don and Motion Pictures: The Atomic in Film'; 'All Safe!: Early Passenger Elevators and the Experience of the Vertical Ride'; 'Bronze Age Fortifications: A Dualistic Interpretation'; 'Significant Structures: Reading Bruegel’s Architecture'; and 'Calamity and War Photography: Persuading the Ideal Viewer', among others. Montage is a welcome addition to the small number of open access ejournals in art history. There is an associated annual symposium at the University of Iowa.
Added: 2009-11-29More details
Points of view : capturing the 19th century in photographs
http://www.bl.uk/pointsofview/
'Points of View: Capturing the 19th Century in Photographs' is the website and online exhibition of a major exhibition at the British Library in London. The free exhibition ends on 7th Mar 2010. The curators have selected works from the rich and rarely-seen 300,000-item photographic archives of the British Museum (now at the British Library, which has since added to the 19th century collection) to ask of the 19th century: "Who was making the photograph and why?" The website contains an online exhibition grouped around eight themes, with images described in detail and offered either as zoom-able images or as small printable images without watermarks. There are also videos of early photographic techniques, an active and illustrated weblog, and useful external Web links to newspaper and magazine reviews of the show. There are also details of the hardback book published to accompany the exhibition.
Added: 2009-11-29More details
Circle Press
http://www.circlepress.com/
This is the official website of Circle Press, which was formed in 1967 by Ron King as an independent publishing group for artists and printmakers, who are interested in publishing limited editions of fine art books, artists' books and prints. Originally set up by King, when his edition of Chaucer's "Prologue to the Canterbury Tales", 'illustrated with images of large abstracted mask designs' was not published (and so he decided to take on the task himself), the Press has now published the work of over 100 artists. The website contains a catalogue of current work that is available, with artists' statements and images of the works, a history of the organisation, and a list of the museums, galleries, archives, and special collections where Circle Press works can be found, including the British Library, the National Art Library, Tate Britain, Gutenberg Museum, the Houghton Library at Harvard University, and the Yale Center for British Art.
Added: 2009-11-27More details
Arc
http://arceditions.com/
This is the website of Arc Editions, which was formed in 2005 by Victoria Bean, Karen Bleitz and Sam Winston, who first met when working together at Circle Press. It is an independent publishing group for artists, printmakers, illustrators, painters, writers, and poets, who work either independently or collectively, and who are interested in publishing limited editions of fine art books and artists' books, and unlimited editions of prints. The website contains images and information of the artists' work, a list of exhibitions in which their work has been shown, and a list of the museums, galleries, archives, and special collections where Arc Editions can be found, including the British Library, Camberwell College of Art, National Poetry Library, London, the Getty Research Center, and the Yale Center for British Art. An article about the work of the originating Arc artists, written by Richard Price, poet and Head of Modern British Collections at the British Library in 2007 for the 'Artist's book yearbook 2008-2009', can be downloaded as a PDF file.
Added: 2009-11-27More details
Faces of power and piety : medieval portraiture
http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/power_piety/
Part of the J. Paul Getty Museum website, this online resource was produced to complement their exhibition, which ran from 12 August to 26 October 2008, entitled 'Faces of Power and Piety: Medieval Portraiture', and which featured portraits from illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages (circa 500-1500). Medieval portraiture does not present us with a precise likeness of the subject, but instead depicts clothing, heraldry or other objects relating to them. As the website states "the goal of medieval portraiture was to present a subject not at a particular moment in time, but as the person wished to be remembered through the ages". This online selection from the exhibition features portraits of Saints Blaise, Veronica, Hedwig, Luke, and Bellinus, as well as authors and patrons. Each image may be enlarged, and audio samples provide additional information for three of the paintings. An illustrated checklist of 22 paintings from the exhibition can be found in a PDF file via a hyperlink.
Added: 2009-11-26More details
Design life now : national design triennial 2006
http://triennial.cooperhewitt.org/podcasts/
The Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum's website has provided this collection of podcasts of designers talking about their work for the museum's 'Design Life Now: National Design Triennial, 2006'. This triennial brought together the experimental designs and emerging ideas at the centre of American culture 2003 to 2006. This resource requires iTunes, and features 14 designers talking about their submissions, ranging from the inventor Chuck Hoberman and his rapidly deployable tent to Ron Gilad on his products that serve a commentary on everyday life, as well as Marissa Mayer of Google discussing Google's design culture. Transcripts are also provided.
Added: 2009-11-26More details
Waddesdon : trade card collection
http://www.waddesdon.org.uk/searchthecollection/trade_cards_introduction.html
The Waddesdon Manor's website includes this online resource on a collection of over 700 trade cards collected by Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild (1839-1898) in 1891. The database of printed paper ephemera to do with trade has been made available free of charge, and provides images and information for many trade cards dating from the early 17th to the 19th centuries. One hundred of these cards illustrate the highlights of the collection. The database can be searched through a simple search facility. The advanced search facility offers a variety of choices, including searching by date, trades, products, country, designer, or subjects. The website also provides bibliographic material for further reading.
Added: 2009-11-26More details
Peter Doig
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/peterdoig/rooms/
The Tate Britain's website provides this online resource to accompany a retrospective exhibition on the artist Peter Doig, which ran from 5 February to 11 May 2008. This online resource featured selected works displayed in each of the eight rooms of the original exhibition. The online exhibition begins with paintings from his time at the Chelsea School of Art 1989-1990, when his landscapes were unlike anything else in the London art scene at this time. It continues with selected works providing a comprehensive overview of his work to date, and tracing his recurrring motifs and his approach to image-making. A video is provided in which the artist guides the visitor around his exhibition, and other resources show the works by Doig in the Tate collection, and an article from the Spring 2008 issue of Tate Etc on Doig and his artwork.
Added: 2009-11-26More details
Street and studio : an urban history of photography
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/streetandstudio/
The Tate Gallery website has provided this online resource which accompanied their exhibition 'Street and Studio: an urban history of photography', which ran from 22 May to 31 August 2008. This resource features some of the 350 works that were exhibited to illustrate the history of photographic portraiture comparing those images taken in the studio to those set outside in the street. Set out in 11 'rooms' this resource features images from the late 19th century through to the 20th century. Although the link to additional images is no longer active, links are provided, under 'resources', to additional works in the Tate's collection by artists such as Martin Parr, Cindy Sherman, Wolfgang Tillmans and Gillian Wearing. The 100 winning entries from the public for a publication are featured under 'Your Photos' via Flickr.
Added: 2009-11-26More details
mik : art history and criticism
http://www.vdu.lt/Leidiniai/MIK/index.html
'mik: art history and criticism' is a full-text ejournal published from Latvia, with articles in either English or Latvian. At November 2009 there are four issues online, published between 2005 and 2008. Each issue is freely available for download in the PDF format. The Web page for the journal has details of the Editors and Editorial Board. There are no tables of contents on the Web page, so users need to download a PDF to see what the issue contains. Example English articles from the most recent 2008 issue include: 'Between Canaanism and Brutalism: Architecture, the Orient and Identity Construction in Israel'; 'Imaginable Common Identity: Shall We Rely on Emotions?'; and 'Sacral Theatre Narrative in Contemporary Lithuanian Theatre', among others. Articles in Latvian are prefaced with substantial summaries in English. Mik is a useful addition to the small range of free ejournals in art history.
Added: 2009-11-22More details
Turner Prize 2009
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/turnerprize/turnerprize2009/
This section of the Tate website is about the 2009 Turner Prize, held at Tate Britain. The artists nominated for the 2009 prize were Enrico David, Roger Hiorns, Lucy Skaer and Richard Wright, with the prize being awarded to Richard Wright on Monday 7th December. In addition to information about visiting the exhibition, there is biographical information about each artist as well as an overview of the work for which they were nominated. There is some background information about the prize, frequently asked questions and a list of jurors for the 2009 prize. In the 'Exhibition' section there is a list of events and talks connected to the exhibition. The 'Comment' section contains posts by Tate staff about the exhibition, some with short video clips and images. There is also the opportunity for users to submit their own reviews and ideas about the art world in general. Users can sign up to a RSS feed to hear about new posts.
Added: 2009-11-16More details
Simon Callery : Thames gateway project
http://simoncallery.wimbledon.ac.uk/
This is the website of the Thames Gateway Project, a research project carried out by Simon Callery in collaboration with Oxford Archaeology and Wimbledon College of Art (University of the Arts) between 2006-2009. The website documents Callery’s AHRC fellowship in the Creative and Performing Arts. It provides text and image documentation of a research project focused on the changing landscape of the Thames Gateway regeneration zone through the medium of contemporary painting. Research objectives are focused on finding new forms in painting to embody and communicate an equivalent for the experience of landscape in change. The website contains further information about the project. There are also sections on artwork, which contains images of artwork, excavation sites and texts which include articles about Callery and his work.
Added: 2009-11-08More details
Elektronnyi muzei otechestvennogo plakata
http://www.plakaty.ru/
Plakaty.ru is an extensive online museum of Soviet and post-Soviet posters, which can be browsed by poster author or by poster type (e.g. agitprop, film, military). Some authors have substantial biographical entries, others brief chronologies, some are not even accompanied by dates. Not all of the thousands of posters are dated either, but clicking on poster categories offers a selection of posters sorted by year, or by author name, with or without thumbnails. A 'notes' page (only available in Russian) links to related articles (e.g. on Soviet war propaganda; on the erotic image in poster art); 'exhibitions' shows photographs from past exhibitions and advertises future events; and details are also given of the 'comradeship of poster artists'. This attractive and easy to use site offers images which are of good enough quality to use in powerpoint presentations, and should be of particular use to teachers of Soviet culture and history.
Added: 2009-10-31More details
In and out of Amsterdam : travels in conceptual art, 1960-1976
http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2009/inandout/
The MoMA website has provided this online version of their exhibition 'In and Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, 1960-1976', which ran from 19 July to 5 October 2009. This online resource is accessed via a gallery floorplan, with a section for each of the ten artists represented, ranging from Bas Jan Ader to George and Gilbert, all of whom spent considerable amounts of time in Amsterdam, which was the nexus of intense art activities in the 1960s and 1970s. The website provides an introduction and offers a selection of the 75 works that were on display. A timeline is also provided.
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Museum of international folk art
http://www.moifa.org/
The website for the Museum of International Folk Art, based in Santa Fe, United States, provides information on its activities and collections representing diverse cultures from around the world. Founded in 1953 this museum holds a collecftion of more than 135,000 artefacts, which includes popular art, toys and textiles from more than 100 nations. The collections are arranged under the headings: African; Asian and Middle Eastern; Contemporary Hispano and Latino; Latin American; Spanish Colonial; Textiles and Costume. A search facility is provided together with brief overviews of each collection. Information is also available on their past, current and upcoming exhibitions.
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BT series : Antony Gormley
http://www.tate.org.uk/btseries/bb/antonygormley/
The Tate's website has provided this online resource about the sculptor, Anthony Gormley (1950-). This series of videos includes an introduction to Gormley's art by Dr Richard Noble, Visual Arts Department, Goldsmiths College. Four examples of Gormley's work can be explored in individual video files, 'Bed'; 'Natural Selection'; 'Sound II'; and 'Another Place'. Gormley also discusses his work in an online interview. Alternatively the video can be viewed in segments where Gormley answers individual questions: 'Is modern art for everyone?', 'What significance does the body have in 21st century art?' or 'Has being an artist been liberating for you?'
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Ed Ruscha
http://www.edruscha.com/
This official website for the artist Ed Ruscha proposes to provide an online version of a catalogue raisonné of his paintings dating from 1958 to the present day. Eventually a projected seven-volume series of books will cover his entire corpus, and the website will be expanded to include all the paintings as each volume is published. The paintings have been organised under year of production dating from 1958 to 1992, with a thumbnail image giving size and media. Missing items have been included with a link requesting information to be submitted via an online form. A searchable resource by date and title for exhibitions has also been provided, together with a biography and chronology of the artist. This resource has been provided by the American Gagosian Gallery.
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Art and industry in the eighteenth century
http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/findingData/snDescription.asp?sn=4635
This is a Web page detailing the context, range and availability of the 'Art and Industry in the Eighteenth Century' dataset hosted by the History Data Service (HDS), based at the UK Data Archive University of Essex (formerly part of the Arts and Humanities Data Service - AHDS). The data is available to order from the HDS as a tab delimited text file. From this Web page you may download a PDF of images of the study documentation. To make use of this dataset you must first register with the HDS, and further information is supplied giving instructions.
The general purpose of the project was to identify a shift from the mid-eighteenth century in the connections between art and manufacture in England, and to plot the emergence of a distinctive style and range of new English consumer goods. Specifically, the project was intended to produce a case study of the commercial applications of art techniques in fine English earthenware, porcelain and glass, with a subsidiary interest in ornamental metalware and works on paper; and to trace the connections between manufacturers and designers, finishers, decorators and artists. The data contains information regarding manufacturers, consumers, artists, designers, decorators and finishers in the ceramics and glass industries in a number of English towns and counties (particularly Bristol and Liverpool). Details were collected of the associations and connections of these individuals and their techniques, along with information about the places in which they worked, the products they produced, and the sources from which this information derived.
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Inventing Marcel Duchamp : the dynamics of portraiture
http://www.npg.si.edu/exhibit/duchamp/
The website for the National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonain Institution offers this online version of their exhibition, 'Inventing Marcel Duchamp: the dynamics of portraiture' which ran from 27 March to 2 August 2009. Nearly 100 portraits, and self-portraits, were brought together to demonstrate Duchamp's portraiture and self-portraiture, which helped to establish him as a major artist, and this Web version features 17 of these portraits. Also available are video and audio files including excerpts from a 1953 interview with Duchamp by CBS anchor Charles Collingwood. New research on Duchamp is featured in a video of a symposium, and a discussion by a 'Conservation Panel' on new research on the Duchamp portraits by Jean Crotti held on 27 March 2009.
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Preparing works of art for exhibition
http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/videoDetails?cat=3&segid=442
The Getty Museum's website has provided these two videos on preparing works of art for exhibition, to demonstrate what goes on behind the scenes. The first video, lasting for 5 minutes 37 seconds, shows how a sculpture by the 17th century artist Adriaen de Vries is transported through the galleries, and then unpacked for display in a past exhibition. The second video, lasting 7 minutes 44 seconds, illustrates the installation of a monumental sculpture, 'That Profile' by Martin Puryear, on the Tram Arrival Plaza at the museum. The video, which includes commentary by the artist, shows the design and construction of this piece, as well as the crew putting the sculpture in place.
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1934 : a new deal for artists
http://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/archive/2009/1934/
The Smithsonian American Art Museum's website provides information on their exhibition '1934: A New Deal for Artists', which ran from 27 Februrary 2009 to 3 January 2010. The exhibition was organised to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the public works of art scheme, the first federal government programme to encouarge artists to depict the American scene. Drawn from the museum's collection of artworks, this exhibition provides a visual record at a specific moment in time. The site uses a map to show the location of some of the images, as well as a slide show, an illustrated tour and a blog for exhibition related posts. An interactive resource 'Picturing the 1930s' is available on the educational section of this site.
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Little magazines project
http://www2.ntu.ac.uk/littlemagazines/
The Little Magazines Project website provides online information about this ongoing project, as well as access to the bibliographies and indexes that constitute the project's output. The project is based at Nottingham Trent University and aims to provide bibliographical details for 2000 - 2500 independent literary and artistic magazines published from 1945 onwards, as well as details for some magazines dating from 1850 - 1944. In order to provide other perspectives on creative and literary activities during the period covered, full indexes for various magazines will also be provided. At the time of writing, indexes and bibliographical details for only a small number of magazines were available. The information can be browsed by title of magazine, or searched by: title; editor; or author. A brief introduction to the project and its staff is also given on the site. This resource would be of interest to cultural historians, as well as students and researchers working in English literature or art.
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Taste of Horton: a selection of items from the Horton Collection of children's material
http://www.inf.aber.ac.uk/academicliaison/horton/default.asp
'A Taste of Horton' is a website hosted by Aberystwyth University Library and Information Services that shows some illustrations from this valuable collection of rare children's material (much of it in English) from the 18th and 19th centuries. The collection, held by Aberystwyth's Thomas Parry Library Rare Books Collection, illustrates the development of children's literature in terms of: publishing; printing; illustration; and themes over the two centuries. The website gives a sample of the items available in the physical collection, via an index of authors leading to descriptions of selected works, with digital images of a few of the illustrations from each. A brief introduction to the collection is also provided, with a link to the University's online library catalogue, where the full contents of the Horton Collection can be searched. The online images can also be viewed as a gallery, without the accompanying descriptions. There are also contact details for the keeper of the physical collection, which can be viewed by appointment. This resource would interest those researching children's literature and other children's materials from the period, from an: educational; literary; or artistic viewpoint, with the related links providing opportunities for further study on the subject.
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Virtual children's books exhibits
http://library.princeton.edu/libraries/cotsen/exhibitions/index.html
The Virtual Children's Books Exhibits website is hosted by Cotsen Children's Library at Princeton University, and showcases items from Cotsen's collection of children's materials dating from the 15th century onwards. The site is divided into four virtual exhibits, entitled: 'Water Babies'; 'Magic Lantern'; 'Creepy-Crawlies'; and 'Beatrix Potter'. Each exhibit consists of images taken from books or works that relate to the overall theme. The images are accompanied by brief descriptions and where relevant, publication and date information. The images are clear and can be enlarged for better viewing. Although the exhibits are image-based, this resource would appeal to those studying children's literature, as well as anyone researching children's art or illustration.
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Exemplary children's literature interface project for scholarly education
http://eclipse.rutgers.edu/
The Exemplary Children's Literature Interface Project for Scholarly Education (ECLIPSE) website is the result of a project funded by Rutgers University Information Science Council. The project examines the development of scholarly interactive websites, focusing particularly on the study of children's literature using digital resources. The site consists of three main sections: 'Mother Goose: a scholarly exploration'; 'Fifty Feathers for the Wizard'; and 'Petra Mathers: Kisses from Rosa'. 'Mother Goose' looks at the development of the children's rhyme of the same name, charting its history in the contexts of: illustration; children's literacy; censorship; social and political use; advertising; drama; and digitisation of texts. 'Fifty Feathers serves as a description of the project and a list of credits, written as a fairy tale, while 'Petra Mathers' follows the development of the children's picture book 'Kisses from Rosa', from first draft to final illustrated work. The site also includes a more detailed description of the ECLIPSE project and its history. The site is well illustrated, clearly designed and easy to use. Although no longer updated, this resource would be of interest to those studying children's rhymes and stories as: English literature; a source of inspiration for illustration; or from an educational perspective.
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Kultur project
http://kultur.eprints.org/index.htm
Kultur was a JISC-funded online project, which created a... "working model of a sustainable institutional repository for research output in the visual and applied arts", the Kultur Demonstrator. The website contains a full set of PDF reports on the progress and outcomes of the project, along with details of the staff involved, and links to the original JISC description of the project. This may be an interesting resource for those considering the ways in which academic online repositories and archives might best deal with... "the requirements of images and time-based media". The project ended in March 2009 and was a joint venture between the University of Southampton, University of the Arts, University for the Creative Arts, the Visual Arts Data Service, and Leiden University - and was part of the £14m JISC Repositories and Preservation Programme.
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River Valley TV
http://river-valley.tv/
River Valley TV specialises in webcasting academic conferences, and then providing open access online video archives containing the conference presentations. RV TV is a UK-based service, and appears to specialise in covering conferences in typography and design, open access publishing, display holography; and the use of open source software for creative production. At October 2009 the website freely offers archives of talks and presentations from conferences such as: Arabic Typography 2008; Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing 2009; International Symposium on Display Holography (ISDH) 2009; Holography in the Modern Museum; Non–Latin typeface design; ATypI Brighton 2007; and Hafiz 2007 (Sufi poetry and calligraphy); among others.
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