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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. 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.
Added: 2009-10-30More details
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.
Added: 2009-10-30More details
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?'
Added: 2009-10-30More details
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.
Added: 2009-10-30More details
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.
Added: 2009-10-28More details
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.
Added: 2009-10-23More details
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.
Added: 2009-10-23More details
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.
Added: 2009-10-23More details
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.
Added: 2009-10-22More details
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.
Added: 2009-10-20More details
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.
Added: 2009-10-20More details
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.
Added: 2009-10-19More details
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.
Added: 2009-10-14More details
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.
Added: 2009-10-14More details
Queer Up North
http://www.queerupnorth.com/
This is the website of Queer Up North, Manchester’s international queer festival. The first festival of its type in Europe, Queer Up North commissions, produces and presents a diverse, annual programme of live performance, art and ideas. The website contains further information about current and future festivals. One can search events by venue, date, theme, artist or genre. One can view details of artists such as images, career highlights and videos where applicable. Queer Up North has also commissioned over 30 new performances, many of which have gone on from Manchester to be seen throughout the UK. Details on how to apply for a commission are under the about us section. Queer Up North also runs BLAZE a participation programme aimed at young people across Greater Manchester.
Added: 2009-10-07More details
Journal of ecocriticism
http://ojs.unbc.ca/index.php/joe
Journal of Ecocriticism: A New Journal of Nature, Society and Literature is a full-text peer-reviewed ejournal. At October 2009 the journal has published two issues (both 2009), with articles freely available online in PDF form. Example article titles include: 'From Sublimity to Ecopornography: Assessing The Bureau of Reclamation Art Collection'; 'The Post Natural Wilderness & Its Writers'; 'Seamus Heaney's Elemental Ecopoetics: Earth, Water, Air and Fire'; and 'Land of Heart's Desire: Inscribing the Australian Landscape', among others. Issues also have a Commentary section containing opinion articles. The journal is edited from British Columbia, Canada, with an international Editorial Advisory Board. The website has full details of the editors, and the article submission process.
Added: 2009-10-06More details
Journal of literary theory
http://www.jltonline.de
The website 'Journal of Literary Theory' (or 'JLTonline') is an online version of a print journal published under the same title since 2007 (ISSN 1862-5290). The publication is intended to serve 'as an international platform for different debates in all fields of literary theory'. 'JLTonline' consists of four sections: articles; reviews; conference proceedings; calls for papers. Only selected articles appear in full-text, but all of them are available in abstract. Publication languages are English and German; however, all abstracts are available in English. Some of the past issues focus on 'New Developments in Literary Theory and Related Disciplines', Vol 1, No 1 (2007), or 'Interpretation', Vol 2, No 1 (2008). The topics of forthcoming issues include: 'Theory of Humour', Vol 3, No 2 (2009); 'Literary Studies and Linguistics', Vol 4, No 1 (2010); 'Popular Culture', Vol 4, No 2 (2010). Reviews of studies in literary criticism and theory, including musicology, art theory, and film studies, are available in full-text, in a PDF or HTML format. Similarly, conference proceedings are published in full. Considering its thematic preoccupations and the scope of debates it presents, JLTonline constitutes a valuable resource for students and researchers of literary studies and other media-related disciplines.
Added: 2009-10-01More details
[ROYAL: Illuminated manuscripts of the Kings and Queens of England]
http://www.bl.uk/news/2008/pressrelease20080804.html
This Web page reports on an AHRC-funded project centred around research into the British Library's collection of 1,950 manuscripts donated by King George II in 1757. Maintained as a collection (labelled 'ROYAL') since this time, they represent the largest surviving collection of medieval illumination and painting owned by English monarchs. The grant will enable the first ever major research project into the collection, resulting in an exhibition in 2011, as well as being added to the Library's online Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts. There will also be an online tour of the collection. The project is a collaboration between the British Library and the Courtauld Institute of Art.
Added: 2009-09-30More details
Cheap flight show : site-specific work, devising ... and being a European
http://www.ahds.ac.uk/performingarts/collections/cheap-flight-show.htm
Held for preservation purposes by the Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS) as part of the AHDS Performing Arts collections, this Web page explains about the Cheap Flight Show, which was a project that was part of the TWISFER (Theatre Work in Social Fields) Congress in September 2005, held in Graz, Austria, and Sentilj, Slovenia. TWISFER is run by uni-T, the arts and cultural section of Karl Franzens Universitat, Graz. Cheap Flight Show was a site-specific piece, which drew inspiration from the building that the organisers, Adam Ledger and Michael Bate, from the University of Hull, worked in and its environment. It also draws out questions about their collective nature as Europeans. The e-book that resulted from the workshop demonstrated some of the practice included in the workshop on devising, improvisation and site-specific performance at Karl Franzens Universitat. The workshop took place at Der Retzhof, Leibnitz, Austria, from 12 - 18 September 2005.
Added: 2009-09-29More details
Mnemosyne dreams
http://www.ahds.ac.uk/performingarts/collections/mnemosynedreams.htm
Held for preservation purposes by the Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS) as part of the AHDS Performing Arts collections, this Web page explains about a DVD of Mnemosyne Dreams, which was a practice-as-research site-specific performance project that took place on the Victorian heritage ship SS Great Britain in Bristol Docks, England, 4-7 April 2002. It was a durational event that ran continuously for six hours on each of four days. It used three locations on the ship, Promenade Deck, First Class Cabin, Ladies Boudoir, and drew on sources from the ship's voyages to Australia (1853-1875), including accounts by passengers "particularly a 1866 honeymoon diary" as well as other historical materials, plus field-work interviews with their contemporary descendents in Australia. It investigated three main research areas: (a) the aesthetics and effects of small-scale spectacle, (b) actor-audience exchange in intimate settings, (c) memory processes in performance and contesting histories at heritage sites. The project included a reception study through conversations with four contrasting 'memory groups' "heritage professionals, volunteer ship workers, 'lay' people from local communities, and random audience members" which had been audience members of the production. The DVD was an interactive performance document and investigative research resource, designed to explore the four main research areas noted above. It is based on a daily two-hour, four-camera video shoot during the four days of presentation, plus over 60 hours audio recordings of audience feedback. The DVD is not available from the website.
Added: 2009-09-29More details
Paul Outerbridge : command performance
http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/outerbridge/
The Getty Museum website has provided this online resource to accompany their exhibition on the American photographer Paul Outerbridge (1896-1958). As well as his commercial photography for magazines such as Vanity Fair and Harper's Bazaar, Outerbridge also undertook art photography. His friendship with Man Ray put him in touch with the European avant-garde, who admired his ability to transform commonplace objects into semi-abstractions, which led critics to compare his work with that of the Modernist painters. Images of his work, both colour and black and white illustrate this resource and, in an audio file, the cinematographer John Bailey talks about his first encounter with Outerbridge's photographs.
Added: 2009-09-29More details
Visual arts office
http://www.ul.ie/visualarts/
The website for the Visual Arts Office of the University of Limerick, Ireland, provides information on the range of art collections on campus. As well as long- and short-term loans of works of art to the university, such as works by Damien Hurst and Louis LeBrocquy, this resource also provides information on their own collections, which include the work of Edward Armitage (1817-1896) in the Armitage collection; bronze portrait busts of Irish figures held by the Helen Hooker O'Malley Roelofs sculpture trust; the Irish American cultural institute and the O'Malley collection of Irish paintings; the medical art collection of paintings; the national self portrait collection of Ireland and the collection of the Water Colour Society of Ireland founded in 1870. The Visual Arts Office is also responsible for exhibiting works by local, national and international artists in the Bourn Vincent gallery.
Added: 2009-09-28More details
Show of emotion : Victorian sentiment in prints and drawings
http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/prints_books/past_displays/victorian_sentiment/
The 'A Show of Emotion: Victorian Sentiment in Prints and Drawings' Web page, hosted by the Victoria and Albert Museum's website, is based on a past exhibition at the V&A. The website states that "many of the works in this exhibition had mass appeal and were used as illustrations and advertising". Love, particularly rejection and disappointed love, was an obvious theme for the sentimental image. Artists included in this section include George Cruikshank the younger, and Charles West Cope. Other sections depict idealised rustic or seasonal settings, for example, childhood, which includes John Everett Millais's famous painting, 'Bubbles'. Death and urban tragedy were also the subject of sentimental image in the Victorian era, and includes work by George Cattermole. Click on each image for further information on the artist and subject.
Added: 2009-09-28More details
Optics and realism in Renaissance art
http://sirl.stanford.edu/~bob/teaching/pdf/arth202/Stork_SciAm04.pdf
Part of the website of Stanford Institute for Reading and Learning, an interdisciplinary research center at Stanford University, David G. Stork has provided the 'Optics and Realism in Renaissance Art' Web resource, as part of the resources for the 'Art and perception' syllabus for winter 2007. Originally published in 'Scientific American' the author discusses the theory, proposed by the artist David Hockney, that 15th century painters used lenses and mirrors to achieve a new level of realism. The article explains how mirror projection works, and uses the portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his wife, more commonly known as 'Arnolfini's wedding', by Jan van Eyck, to illustrate this theory, as well as computer models.
Added: 2009-09-28More details
Digital art curation and practice (DACP) : aesthetics, participation, diversity
http://ahds.ac.uk/performingarts/collections/digitalartcuration.htm
Held for preservation purposes by the Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS) as part of the AHDS Performing Arts collections, this Web page explains about the Digital Art Curation and Practice (DACP) project. DACP was a two-year project at Robert Gordon University "that set out to examine, through case studies, 'transitional' activities where galleries were expanding their events to include digital media". As the website states "the project questioned existing definitions surrounding exhibit, event and performance in order to understand the potential for the future development of digital arts exhibition spaces."
Added: 2009-09-28More details
University of Wyoming digital initiative
http://digital.uwyo.edu/
This excellent website, from the University of Wyoming, presents a number of collections of visual resources on American history. The attractively designed and easy-to-use website has, as of September 2009, eighteen collections with over 20,000 images available. Each collection can be browsed easily, and some limited information is presented on one or two of the collections. The images vary quite greatly from issues over racial segregation and protest in the latter 1960s to collections of images relating to the American frontier and rodeos. This is an interesting and highly useful website for those interested in all things American.
Added: 2009-09-24More details
Trevor Wishart
http://www.trevorwishart.co.uk/
This website records the work of English composer and sonic artist, Trevor Wishart. Widely acknowledged as a composer of digital audio media, both fixed and interactive, he has not only composed many significant pieces, but he has also written extensively on the topic of what he terms "sonic art", and contributed to the design and implementation of many software tools used in the creation of digital music. Wishart holds an honorary position at the University of York; in 2006 he was appointed as composer-in-residence at the University of Durham, and he also works as a freelance composer. The website provides information about his sonic art pieces, including 'Red Bird' (1973-1977), a piece of music that was "based on morphing between sounds of voices, machines, animals, birds, using analogue studio techniques, and directed improvisation"; 'Fabulous Paris', "sound meditation on modern megacities, using specially developed time-varying harmonic-field filters", and 'Imago', "which, by a process of continual sonic metamorphosis on a single 'clink' (taken from Jonty Harrison's 'et ainsi de suite') arrives at allusions to the sea, birdsong, gamelan music and the human voice". The latter two works have been deposited with AHDS Performing Arts, for preservation purposes. The 'New music theory and practice' section of the website provides information about the books that Wishart has written on the subject of sonic art.
Added: 2009-09-21More details
British photographic history
http://britishphotohistory.ning.com/
British Photographic History is a substantial social networking and news website, devoted to the history of British photography and photographers. Launched in early 2009, at September 2009 the network has 270 members. The network appears to be very active, even at a time of widespread neglect of the study of photographic history in British universities. The website has blogs, a discussion forum, a full list of members (most with photos), and a useful Events page listing exhibitions and conferences. The British Photographic History network and website is a welcome development for historians researching and publishing on this topic.
Added: 2009-09-13More details
Jan Toorop research center
http://www.jan-toorop.com/
This is a comprehensive free website devoted to the life and work of the northern European artist Jan Toorop (1858-1928), perhaps best known as a Symbolist painter. The website has been created by a specialist dealer in the works of Toorop, and it contains a very large and complete colour gallery of works by Toorop, organised by year from 1882 to 1927. The larger versions of the works are presented at a medium size only, but without watermarks. There is also a gallery of photographs of Toorop, a timeline of publications about his work, some original letters, a short biography in timeline form, and a guide to some of the styles in which Toorop worked during his life (Impressionism, Symbolism, Pointillism, and Catholic symbolism). Toorop also created bookbindings. This will be a useful website for those interested in the life and work of the artists, and those interested in seeing how personal themes could be translated as fashions in art changed.
Added: 2009-09-13More details
Bruce Weber : gone fishing
http://www.sundancechannel.com/bruce-weber/
This is a new 2009 Sundance Channel online exhibition and website for the photographer and film-maker Bruce Weber (1946-). It is the first such website, and includes biographical details, photos, videos, and a music playlist selected by Weber. Weber is widely known for his influential and controversial photographic work with Calvin Klein, Abercrombie & Fitch, Versace, Vogue, GQ, Vanity Fair, Elle, and Interview, among others. He has also made feature films, documentaries, and pop videos. Two of his most acclaimed short films are made freely available online in full: 'Being Boring' and 'You Feel Me', both made for The Pet Shop Boys. This is a useful and reliable website on a major photographer and film-maker, one who has had considerable contemporary cultural impact especially in the portrayal of youths and youth culture, and as such it will be of interest to a range of creative students and faculty.
Added: 2009-09-11More details
Alfred Stieglitz/Georgia O'Keeffe archive
http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/digitallibrary/asgo.html
The Alfred Stieglitz/Georgia O'Keeffe archive is an online collection and exhibit of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. It documents the lives, work, and loves of the pioneer of American art photography Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946) and the painter Georgia O'Keeffe (1886-1986). The couple married, and their love affair is possibly one of the most famous in art. The collection has around 850 images freely available online. These include photographs, letters, sketches and preliminary work, clippings, and other documentary materials. Images are available at a large size (1000 pixels on the longest size, on images tested) and are not overlaid by watermarks. Images are accompanied with basic archival information. The collection may be searched by keyword, or simply browsed. This is a valuable collection of primary materials for those interested in these artists, their work, and their circle.
Added: 2009-09-11More details
Avant-garde/neo-avant-garde bibliographic research database
http://ota.oucs.ox.ac.uk/scripts/download.php?otaid=2503
The objective of this database is to encourage, facilitate and stimulate research across the disciplines of avant-garde and neo-avant-garde art, literature, film, music, theory, architecture and performance. Available to download as a zipped MS Access file from the Oxford Text Archive (OTA) website, the database features a collection of more than 3,000 bibliographic entries on secondary literature on avant-garde and neo-avant-garde related themes and topics. The entries are searchable via various different keyword functions including the categories 'movement' (i.e. "Dada"¯, "Surrealism"¯, "Situationist International"¯ etc.), 'main topic' ("dadaist art"¯, "surrealist literature"¯, "photomontage" etc.) and 'main author/artist discussed'. The resource has been designed to enable scholars to search precisely for literature on very specific avant-garde related topics (such as less well-known movements or individuals, or particular avant-garde techniques, or literature on specific art forms within the various movements etc.), which are often not searchable in ordinary library catalogues. The information featured in each single entry includes: author/creator and contributors (in case of essay collections), time and place of publication, publisher, type of publication [i.e. monograph, essay collection, exhibition catalogue, catalogue raisonne, essay, review etc], language, and ISBN or ISSN numbers. The database attempts to cover relevant literature on major movements and individuals of the respective periods. Most works in the database are in English, though significant literature in other languages has also been included in some cases. The database mainly features secondary literature, i.e. literature about the avant-garde rather than by the avant-garde. However, exceptions have been made in those cases where the writers and painters of the avant-garde have written theoretical assessments, analytical pieces or declarations of intentions which are relevant for the understanding of the avant-garde's endeavours. This is why certain manifestos, key essays, programmatic statements or reviews have been included. These are usually designated in the 'type' category as 'programme/manifesto/statement'.
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Computer baroque
http://www.animateprojects.org/films/by_project/computer_baroque/baroque
Launched in March 2009 at Tate Modern in London, 'Computer Baroque' is an online archival collection of exemplary and innovative short films, all made using computer animation between 1982 and 1995. 15 short films from this period are freely available to view on the website, and are presented using Flash video. Films are accompanied by substantial curatorial notes by curator Richard Wright. The collection aims to represent a period... "in which computer animation was the focus for audacious and exuberant experiments across all areas of new media, art and technology". A short essay on the exhibition, 'Computer Baroque: Computer animation 1982–1995 by Richard Wright', can be found in the right-hand sidebar or by clicking Writings / Essays on the sidebar of the Animate Projects website. This website is an interesting and stimulating insight into the early years of the creative use of computer animation.
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Karim Rashid
http://www.karimrashid.com/
This is the website of award-winning designer Karim Rasid, who was born in Cairo in 1960 to Egyptian and English parents, raised in Canada, and is now based in New York. As well as a biography his website includes his manifesto which advocates that high-quality design should be available to everyone. For him design is not just about solving problems but about "a rigorous beautification of our built environments". The main sections of the website relate to the different aspects of his design work: Furniture; Product; Space; Light; Packaging; Identity; Surfaces. There are also sections on his fashion design and his art.
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Revista espacio, tiempo y forma
http://62.204.194.45:8080/fedora/get/bibliuned:revistaETF/demo:Collection/view/
Published since 1988, 'Espacio, Tiempo y Forma' is the annual peer-reviewed journal of the Faculty of Geography and History at the Spanish open university (UNED). It is divided in seven different series, corresponding with the departments at the faculty: Prehistory and Archaeology; Ancient History; Medieval History; Modern History; Contemporary History; Geography; and History of Art. Although the language of the publication is Spanish, most recent articles have abstracts in Spanish and English. Each series publishes research articles and book reviews within the specific field. In most cases, they focus on Spain, but other European and Latin American areas are also covered. The website lacks any form of search tool, and users can only browse each issue. However, all articles can be accessed for free and given the wide scope of the journal, browsing may yield interesting results.
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[Jodi]
http://www.jodi.org/
Joan Heemskerk and Dirk Paesmans, a Dutch / Belgian couple living in California - whose first names form the word 'jodi' - are net art pioneers. They have worked with photography, video and performance art, however, now they present their work on the Internet and via CD-ROM. They are interested in the relationship between modern digital technology and our ability or otherwise to deal with it. Jodi bring what normally occurs in the background to the surface of their Web pages: computer crashes, error messages, computer programs dissolving into nothing and so on. This website, then, is a series of black blank applet windows randomly jogging about on the screen, rendering the user apparently useless - causing confusion, but forcing the user to find a solution.
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Corby & Baily
http://www.reconnoitre.net/
Corby & Baily (also known as Reconnoitre.net) is the website for the projects of new media artists Gavin Baily and Tom Corby. The earliest project that they undertook was 'untitled' in 1996. Since then they have worked on 'Reconnoitre' (1997-1999), 'loop_reprise' (2001), 'mesh', sponsored by Arts Council England, Sciart, NESTA and The Wellcome Trust in 2001, 'gameboy_ultraF_uk' (2001-2002), 'die-text' (2005), and more recently 'cyclone.soc'. Information is provided about each project and in some cases there is the opportunity to view images or movie clips of the project (which requires Windows Media Player) and to download the application. The website also gives information about exhibitions where Corby & Baily have exhibited their work and awards that they have received, artist biographies and links to digital artists' and organisations' websites.
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Kunisada and Kabuki
http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/gallery/japan/gallery/texthomepage.htm
This is the website for the online exhibition ‘Kunisada and Kabuki’ which is hosted by the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, UK. Kunisada (1786-1865) was one of the most prolific and commercially-successful of all woodblock print designers and Kabuki actors were his main speciality. There is an introduction to the art of Kabuki. The themes page allows the user to view images by subject. Themes include a visit to the theatre, plays or scenes and actors. There is also a guide on how to read an actor print. Through the virtual gallery one can view all the images of the collection in sequence. This exhibition is divided into three parts. The first part features commercial actor prints from the 1820s and 1830s. Part two features prints from 1844 onwards when Kunisada started signing his work as ‘Toyokuni’. Part 3 features privately issued prints known as surimono. These prints were commissioned by poetry clubs and actors.
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London College of Fashion : the Woolmark Company
http://www.vads.ac.uk/collections/LCFWOOL.html
This image database contains close to 2,500 images of black-and-white fashion photographs. The International Wool Secretariat, now The Woolmark Company, was established in 1937 to undertake research and the global promotion of wool. To that end, they built up a large library of promotional photographs and accompanying press releases which they generously donated to the London College of Fashion in the 1980's when they relocated and were short of space. The photographs date from the 1940's through to the 1980's and capture both the fashion of the time and the style of photography.The press releases, which in some cases are still attached to the photographs, give additional information about the garments, designers/manufacturers, the photographer and any points of interest reflecting the promotional style and language of the time.
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John Johnson collection of printed ephemera : trades and professions prints
http://www.vads.ac.uk/collections/JJTP.html
This database is a digital record of the Trades and Professions prints subject section of the John Johnson Collection of Printed ephemera at the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford. There are around 830 images, which include a large sequence from Laroon's Cries of London. The John Johnson Collection was assembled by John de Monins Johnson (1882-1956) who was inspired by his work as a papyrologist in Egypt to rescue Britain's immediate paper heritage. Johnson subsequently worked at the Oxford University Press. The Collection was transferred to the Bodleian Library from the Oxford University Press in 1968, since when both old and modern ephemera have been added to it. There are in excess of one million items which span the 16th to 20th centuries. The Collection is strongest in 19th and early 20th century ephemera, with significant holdings in the 18th century.
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Fashioning felt
http://exhibitions.cooperhewitt.org/Fashioning-Felt/
This website is the online companion to the exhibition ‘Fashioning Felt’ hosted by the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. The exhibition took place from the 6th March until the 7th September 2009. The exhibition focuses on felt that has been produced by hand or by machine-felting process but it excludes non-woven felt and techniques in order to emphasise the essential elements used in felt making. There are three main sections. The section on objects, shows images and details of exhibits as well as links to related designs. The section on process includes photos showing how a Turkmenistan carpet is made. There is also a blog. One can browse objects by keyword such as architecture, fashion or furniture or by designer.
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Elizabeth Nesbitt room : a goodly heritage
http://www.library.pitt.edu/libraries/is/enroom/
The Elizabeth Nesbitt Room is based at the Information Sciences Library at the University of Pittsburgh, and houses various special collections relating to children's literature and the history of children. The Elizabeth Nesbitt Room website provides information on the physical collections, as well as online bibliographies and electronic images relating to the materials they cover, including: the American Sunday School Union; chapbooks (including full texts of: Aesop's Fables; Cinderella; and Aladdin among others); a project showcasing important 19th and 20th-century children's book illustrators (including Beatrix Potter and Arthur Rackham); 19th-century juvenile magazines; and a biography and bibliography of Samuel Goodrich (author of early American school text books). The site also provides a brief history of the Nesbitt Room. This resource would be useful for those studying 19th and 20th-century children's literature, as well as English literature or history of publishing and books.
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Technical study of Picasso‘s construction 'Still life' 1914
http://www.tate.org.uk/research/tateresearch/tatepapers/09spring/jackie-heuman.s
Issue 11 of the Tate Papers, the Tate Gallery‘s online research journal, has provided this illustrated technical study of Picasso‘s construction ‘Still Life’ 1914, published in the Spring of 2009. Although curator's have published technical studies on Picasso's paintings little attention has been paid to his early sculptures. Although Picasso made around a dozen sculptures at this time, this was the only one shown publicly during his lifetime and analysis of this work has provided insights into his working method. This article explores Picasso's use of unconventional materials and carefully managed his technique to accentuate his abandonment of traditional craft.
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Casting bronzes
http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/videoDetails?cat=2&segid=370
The Getty Museum has provided this online six-minute video on the process of casting bronzes. The process dates from the beginning of 1500, when patrons became intrigued by the famous bronze collections of antiquity. Artists at this time experimented with bronze, which was prized for its ability to register fine detail and reflect light, developing the process of lost-wax casting, which enabled numerous copies of the same piece to be made, which is still in use today. The video looks at this process, as well as the modeling and chasing of the piece to produce the desired surface effect. RealPlayer is required to view the videos.
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Literature for children
http://palmm.fcla.edu/juv/
Literature for Children is a collection of digitised images and texts from 19th and 20th-century American and British children's books. The collection draws from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature (Department of Special Collections and Area Studies, University of Florida), as well as from collections held in the Departments of Special Collections at: the Florida Atlantic University; Florida State University; and the University of South Florida. The site provides images from around 600 works, some consisting of full texts, and others of sample pages and the covers. The images are of good quality, and are provided as JPEG and PDF files. Some of the materials are available for educational use only, while others are subject to copyright or in the public domain. The size of the collection allows for some comparison between editions of the same work (for example several versions of 'Robinson Crusoe' by Daniel Defoe are included), as well as providing a variety of types of work, ranging from picture books to collections of rhymes, to novels. Items can be browsed by title and author, and searched by title or author keyword, or by keywords within the full text. The website describes the collections, and also provides copyright information and related links. This resource would interest book historians, as well as those researching or studying children's fiction and English and American literature.
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Regarding war
http://www.transculturalwriting.com/regarding_war/about.html
Regarding War is the website of a research project run by the Centre for Transcultural Writing and Research (CTWR) at Lancaster University. The project uses photographic images and poetry to communicate individual experiences of contemporary wars, focusing particularly on people living in the north of England. At the time of writing the site consists of a small number of images and texts, but the project is a work in progress. The site gives details of those people working on the project, as well as the aims of the project. More information on the images and poems is provided by a blog, written by the project's poet, Fadir Faqir, and photographer Richard Hanson. This project would interest those studying creative writing and English, as well as art and cultural studies.
Added: 2009-08-23More details
Auguste Rodin and the Cantor collection
http://www.cantorfoundation.org/Rodin/rodin.html
Part of the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation's website, the Auguste Rodin and the Cantor Collection site provides information on the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor collection of Rodin's sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, and memorabilia. Amassing one of the largest private collections of Rodin's work in the world, the Cantors have also donated works by Rodin to over 70 institutions worldwide, established museum galleries and sculpture gardens, and funded large exhibitions. The website includes a short history of the collection, and a series of images from it in the virtual gallery, with detailed notes alongside each image. There is also a biography of the sculptor, as well as information about bronze casting of Rodin's sculptures, and the lost wax casting process.
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