The Artstor Digital Library has added 2,000 images from the Library of Congress “Eyes of the Nation” collection. This collection provides a pictorial overview of American history and includes prints, posters, maps, manuscript pages, photographs, design, movie stills, and cartoons. To find these images, from the ARTstor homepage "www.artstor.org", click on the link "Search and Browse for Images". After a few seconds you will see the Artstor Welcome page click on “Image Gallery”. Choose “Eyes of the Nation” to view all the images in this collection.
Also nearly 1600 additional images have been added to the Islamic Art and Architecture Collection. This latest release focuses on the Ottoman architecture in Turkey and brings the total number of images in this collection to over 10,000. To find these images, from the ARTstor homepage "www.artstor.org" click on the link "Search and Browse for Images". After a few seconds you will see the Artstor Welcome page click on “Image Gallery”. Choose the “Islamic Art and Architecture Collection” to view all the images in this collection.
The ARTstor digital collection contains approximately 500,000 images from many time periods and cultures, and documents the fields of architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design, as well as many other forms of visual culture.
For information on how you can access and register for an ARTstor account visit our ARTstor information website at http://www.swccd.edu/~library/Docs/artstor0507.pdf .
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Thursday, July 19, 2007
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What's New in ARTstor
Recent additions to the ARTstor digital library are two new archives from the Negative Collection at the Frick Art Reference Library.
The first archive consists of over 3,000 large-format, glass plate negatives images produced by the Italian photographic firm of Sansoni and richly documents fresco cycles and other forms of architectural decoration throughout Italy. To find these images, from the ARTstor Welcome page click on “Image Gallery.” Choose “Sansoni Archive” to view all the images in this collection.
The second archive consists of nearly 4,000 large-format glass plate and nitrate negatives, as well as polyester “interpositives,” from A.C. Cooper and documents paintings as they passed through art auction galleries in London in the 1920s and 1930s. To find these images, from the ARTstor Welcome page click on “Image Gallery.” Choose “A.C. Cooper and Related Archives” to view all images in this collection.
The ARTstor digital collection contains approximately 400,000 images from many time periods and cultures, and documents the fields of architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design, as well as many other forms of visual culture.
For information on how you can access and register for an ARTstor account visit our ARTstor information website at http://www.swccd.edu/~library/Docs/artstor0507.pdf .
The first archive consists of over 3,000 large-format, glass plate negatives images produced by the Italian photographic firm of Sansoni and richly documents fresco cycles and other forms of architectural decoration throughout Italy. To find these images, from the ARTstor Welcome page click on “Image Gallery.” Choose “Sansoni Archive” to view all the images in this collection.
The second archive consists of nearly 4,000 large-format glass plate and nitrate negatives, as well as polyester “interpositives,” from A.C. Cooper and documents paintings as they passed through art auction galleries in London in the 1920s and 1930s. To find these images, from the ARTstor Welcome page click on “Image Gallery.” Choose “A.C. Cooper and Related Archives” to view all images in this collection.
The ARTstor digital collection contains approximately 400,000 images from many time periods and cultures, and documents the fields of architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design, as well as many other forms of visual culture.
For information on how you can access and register for an ARTstor account visit our ARTstor information website at http://www.swccd.edu/~library/Docs/artstor0507.pdf .
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