VISUAL RESOURCES COORDINATOR STEPHEN LARESE'S VISUAL RESOURCES LINKS:
Visual Resources Links
The following are useful websites for anyone using images in their teaching of art and art history. They are grouped here by function. The most important of them are probably the sties that offer images for the teaching of art history classes. So I will begin with those sites.
Online images (in general)
It is good practice for faculty and students in our fields to become familiar with various online resource sites. Google has developed, and is developing, into is kind of indexing resource for everything including art images. Many of the images that you will find through Google Images will be of varying quality, or size, may be lacking documentation and may not be sustained.
Finding images on the web:
Boston University has a detailed site, http://www.bu.edu/library/instruction/findimages/index.html
It includes further links for:
á Image Copyright http://www.bu.edu/library/instruction/findimages/copyright.html
á Downloading and Inserting Images http://www.bu.edu/library/instruction/findimages/download.html
á Search Engines http://www.bu.edu/library/instruction/findimages/sengines.html
á Image Search Engines http://www.bu.edu/library/instruction/findimages/isengines.html
á Image Archives/Image Collections/Imagebases (Selections) http://www.bu.edu/library/instruction/findimages/iarchives.html
There are several Information stores coming into use from a more authoritative source. One of the most useful of these is
ARTstor
Brief introduction to ARTstor
The ARTstor Digital Library is comprised of digital images and their corresponding data (i.e., metadata); the tools to make active use of those images; and an online environment intended to balance the interests of users with those of content providers. With ARTstor, you will be able to search for images online, save groups of images for your own use and student use, and create digital image presentations.
ARTstor documents artistic and historical traditions across many time-periods and cultures and focuses on, but is not limited to, art. ARTstor's Charter Collection contains approximately 300,000 digital images of visual material from different cultures and disciplines; by 2007 ARTstor is expected to contain more than 500,000 images.
Access to ARTstor
As a campus-wide resource, ARTstor is designed to be used by researchers in fields that do not traditionally use images, as well as by art historians As an information store it seeks to offer sufficient breadth and depth to support a wide range of non-commercial educational and scholarly activities. It is important to understand that it functions as a subscription that this university is enrolled in. This means that you will need to access ARTstor through Stony Brook University Libraries home page: http://sunysb.edu/~library/index.html
You can do this on your computer anywhere as long as you go through the Library page as follows:
* After you go to the above site, Stony Brook University Libraries. Click onto the “Online Resources” link for “Databases & E-Journals”. If you “Browse by subject” (“Art” in this case) there are useful links, such as the Art Index, that you might want to take note of. To access ARTstor, however, click onto “Browse by title” (“A” for ARTstor), and scroll down to the ARTstor listing and click onto it. This will bring you to ARTstor’s entry page: http://www.artstor.org/info/
* Once there, at the right-hand side of the page you can take a ‘tour’ of the ARTstor offerings and setup that will open in a smaller window. Or you can directly ‘launch’, which allows you to begin use of ARTstor by registering and setting up an account for yourself.
* You will see the various collections that make up the ARTstor offerings. (For example, SUNY Binghampton as images listed for use. There is also a collection for survey images.) Once you have registered and set up an account, you can always log onto your account to review images and groupings of images that you want to use or save for later use.
ARTstor Offline Image Viewer Instructions http://www.artstor.org/webhelp/ARTstor_Help.htm#Getting_Started.htm
For projection of images Offline*, ARTstor does offer an Offline Image Viewer (OIV).
It is interactive, to some extent, with other image sources and delivery software, such as PowerPoint.
Help from ARTstor userservices@artstor.org
http://www.artstor.org/webhelp/ARTstor_Help.htm#Getting_Started.htm
Lastly, there is a page of directions, “Resources for End Users”; it contains the following:
• Best Practices http://www.artstor.org/info/using_artstor/bestpracticeseu.jsp
• System Requirements http://www.artstor.org/info/using_artstor/techspecs.jsp
• Training Sessions http://www.artstor.org/info/using_artstor/endusertraining.jsp
• Remote Access http://www.artstor.org/info/using_artstor/remoteaccess.jsp
• Ask a Question http://www.artstor.org/info/misc/contact_us_general.jsp
• Announcement Mailing List http://www.artstor.org/info/using_artstor/listserv.jsp
For further help you can always see me, or for contact directly to ARTstor:
ARTstor User Services
151 East 61st Street
New York, NY 10021
888.278.0079 (USA only)
212.500.2400
Images Beyond ARTstor
Art Images for College Teaching http://arthist.cla.umn.edu/aict/index.html
Survey of images made available by its author, art historian and visual resources curator Allan T. Kohl.
ArtServe http://rubens.anu.edu.au/
The Australian National University offers images that concentrate on art and architecture in non-Western areas, mainly from the Mediterranean Basin, Japan, India & Cambodia.
ArtSource http://www.ilpi.com/artsource/welcome.html
Networked resources on Art and Architecture including libraries, events, images, museum information, exhibitions, etc.
Digital Imaging Project, Bluffton University (Mary Ann Sullivan) http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/index/index2.html
More than 10,000 images of sculpture and architecture.
Art Kiosk, California State University (K.Cohen) http://worldart.sjsu.edu/
WorldArt image database allows you to search over 35,000 images from throughout the world. Created by Kathleen Cohen with other faculty, staff and students of the California State University.
Art and Architecture, Courtauld Institute of Art http://www.artandarchitecture.org.uk/
More than 40,000 images and a network of over half a million links.
David Rumsey Visual Collections http://www.davidrumsey.com/collections/
Over 300,000 images of maps, fine artwork, photographs and other items from over thirty collections.
“View maps, fine artwork, photographs and other items from over thirty renowned collections. Explore these collections using the Insight® Browser with no download required, or the Insight® Java Client with advanced
functionality, requiring one time download. View the collections individually with the Insight Browser or Java Client. With the Insight Java Client, combine several collections from one category, or combine any collection from the View All tab.”
David Rumsey's Map Collection http://www.davidrumsey.com/
“Thousands of high-resolution digital images of maps from the David Rumsey Collection, one of the largest private collections of historic maps in the US. More than 13,000 maps”
Mother of all Art and Art History http://art-design.umich.edu/mother/
University of Michigan's extensive compilation of art history departments, research resources, image collections, museums, online exhibitions.
Whitcombe: Art History Resources on the web http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html
Full coverage of history of art, research resources, museums.
“Compiled by Christopher L. C. E. Witcombe, Professor, Dept of Art History, Sweet Briar College, Virginia
Online since 24 October 1995”
World Wide Web Virtual Library: History of Art http://www.chart.ac.uk/vlib/
Links relating to Art History and computer applications in Art History. The site is sponsored by CHArt, the Computers and History of Art Group.
The Great Buildings Collection http://www.artifice.com/gbc/buildings.html
Survey of major monuments, architectural images of more than 800 buildings
Asian Historical Architecture http://www.orientalarchitecture.com/
Over 8500 photos of 545 sites in seventeen countries.
Images from Museum Sites
Museums will often have the best documented and most reliable source for a specific image you may need. However, museum sites differ vastly in what digital materials they offer. Some of the most reliable museum sites follow.
Virtual Library’s Museum Pages (Worldwide Museums) http://icom.museum/vlmp/
VLmp is “a distributed directory of on-line museums”
The British Museum http://www.bmimages.com/Index.asp
Musée du Louvre http://www.louvre.fr/llv/oeuvres/bdd_oeuvre.jsp?bmLocale=en
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY http://www.metmuseum.org/search/advanced_search.asp
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston http://www.mfa.org/
Philadelphia Museum of Art http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/search.html
Vatican Museums http://mv.vatican.va/3_EN/pages/MV_Home.html
Using PowerPoint®
A Quick Start Guide to Using PowerPoint® For Image-based Presentations
http://www.aapvrf.cornell.edu/KVRFpp.pdf
Cornell University, Knight Visual Resources Collection
Fine Arts Slide Library of Indiana University, Bloomington http://dido.dlib.indiana.edu/collections/dido/sl/slide6.html
Scroll down to the PowerPoint section
Using PowerPoint to Create an Art History Presentation NYU, Institute of Fine Arts
http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/fineart/ifa/pdf/Powerpoint_Manual.pdf
Dictionaries and Encyclopedias (and Controlled Vocabularies)
The Dictionary of Art Historians http://www.dictionaryofarthistorians.org/
A biographical/bibliographical lexicon of historic scholars of art
Perseus http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/
Located in Department of Classics, Tufts University, especially noted for Greek and Roman materials.
Getty Research Institute http://www.getty.edu/research/
Search Page http://www.getty.edu/search/
Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT) http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/aat/
A database of terms and definitions for describing, indexing, and accessing information on the visual arts and architecture.
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN) http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/tgn/
A database of modern and historical names, coordinates, and descriptions of geographic places, arranged in hierarchical order.
Union List of Artist Names (ULAN) http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/ulan/
A database of preferred and variant names, biographical information, and bibliographic citations relating to artists and architects.
STEVE (The Art Museum Social Tagging Project) http://www.steve.museum/
“What is steve? Steve is a research project whose participants are building a tagging tool, collecting tags, analyzing data, engaging in discussion, and hoping to apply what we learn to improving access to works of art. Here’s a diagram of steve's world.”
Copyright Issues
U.S. Copyright Office: Copyright Basics http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1.html
NYU: NINCH Fair Use Education site http://www.ninch.org/ISSUES/COPYRIGHT/FAIR_USE_EDUCATION/FAIR_USE_EDUCATION.html
NINCH Guide to Good Practice
http://www.nyu.edu/its/humanities/ninchguide/XIII/
Indiana University, Copyright Management Center (K.Crews) http://www.copyright.iupui.edu/
Center for Intellectual Property and Copyright in Digital Environment University of Maryland
http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/bytopic/intprop/
University of Texas: Copyright Crash Course http://www.utsystem.edu/ogc/Intellectualproperty/cprtindx.htm
University of Oregon: Copyright & Art Issues (Chris Sundt) http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~csundt/copyweb/
Imaging and Scanning Advice
A Few Scanning Tips by Wayne Fulton http://www.scantips.com/
Visual Resources Association (VRA) http://www.vraweb.org/
TASI (Technical Advisory Service for Images) http://www.tasi.ac.uk/
Cornell Univeristy: Moving Theory into Practice: Digital Imaging Tutorial http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/tutorial/contents.html
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