December 4, 2008 by artstor
ARTstor staff will attend the upcoming Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) Task Force meeting on December 8, 2008. Pauline Saliga (Society of Architectural Historians), Ann Whiteside (MIT), and Carole Ann Fabian, (ARTstor) will co-present on SAH Architectural Resources Archive — an ongoing collaborative effort among SAH, scholars of architectural history, libraries, librarians and ARTstor.
The Society of Architectural Historians Online Image Archive:
Transforming the Field of Architectural History through Collaboration
Monday, December 8, 2008
3:15 p.m. to 4:15 p.m.
Meeting Room 9
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December 4, 2008 by artstor
In collaboration with Canyonlights World Art Image Bank, ARTstor has digitized approximately 1,600 images of architecture from the archive of Brian Davis. The collection documents architectural and garden sites in Europe, primarily architecture in Britain from the Middle Ages to the early 20th century. Images include strong coverage of English architecture from the 17th through 19th centuries, with examples of buildings designed by architects such as Inigo Jones, Christopher Wren, Robert Adam, John Soane, John Nash, Joseph Paxton, and Augustus W. N. Pugin. There is also a group of images documenting gardens and landscape architecture in England, Russia, and Italy.
Brian Davis teaches British Studies and has given courses in literature, art, and architecture at the University of East Anglia, the University of Cambridge, and the University of Bath. He is widely known for his commercially distributed teaching slides of architecture, which are made available by Canyonlights World Art Image Bank. Canyonlights has also collaborated with ARTstor to share and create additional images of architectural and archaeological sites in Europe and the United States.
To view the Brian Davis: Architecture in Britain collection: go to the ARTstor Digital Library, browse by collection, and click “Brian Davis: Architecture in Britain”; or enter the Keyword Search: “brian davis”
For more detailed information about this collection, visit the Brian Davis: Architecture in Britain collection page.
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December 4, 2008 by artstor
ARTstor is collaborating with Deepanjana Danda Klein to share her archive of approximately 6,000 photographs relating to the architecture and sculpture of the rock-cut cave temples at Ellora in Maharashtra, India. These 34 Buddhist, Hindu, and Jain caves were excavated from a two-kilometer stretch of rock cliff between the sixth and tenth centuries C.E. An initial release of more than 1,100 images is now available in the Digital Library. This first set focuses on the Buddhist caves (Nos. 1-12), the earliest structures at Ellora, dating from 500 to 700 C.E. Subsequent releases will include the 17 Hindu caves (Nos. 13-29), built between 600 and 870 C.E., which form the center of the complex. The Hindu caves are grouped around the famous Kailasa Temple (No. 16), which represents the epitome of Indian rock-cut architecture. Finally, there are the five Jain caves (Nos. 30-34) dating from 800 to 1000 C.E. Klein’s work at Ellora represents the first systematic photographic campaign of the entire site, including photography of previously undocumented caves.
Klein collaborated with Professor Walter Spink from the University of Michigan, who noted: “Due to the knowledge, energy, and technical expertise of Dr. Deepanjana Danda Klein and the enthusiastic cooperation of her husband, Dr. Arno Klein, scholars now finally have a truly comprehensive photographic coverage of this great site’s varied Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain material.”
All photographs were taken by Arno Klein and annotations for these images are based on Professor Spin’s notes from the site. These materials will be published in a forthcoming volume on the Ellora cave temples. Klein is a Specialist in the Modern & Contemporary Indian Art Department at Christie’s. She has a Ph.D. in Indian art history from De Montfort University (DMU) and has taught art history, theory, and aesthetics at the School of Architecture at DMU, Leicester and at the Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute for Architecture and Environmental Studies in Mumbai.
To view the Cave Temples at Ellora, India (Deepanjana Danda Klein and Arno Klein) collection: go to the ARTstor Digital Library, browse by collection, and click “Cave Temples at Ellora, India (Deepanjana Danda Klein and Arno Klein)”; or enter the Keyword Search: ellora klein
For more detailed information about this collection, visit the Cave Temples at Ellora, India (Deepanjana Danda Klein and Arno Klein) collection page.
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December 4, 2008 by artstor
ARTstor is partnering with the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum to share approximately 1,200 images of works by Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986). The images will include all of the museum’s works by O’Keeffe — paintings, drawings, and sculpture dating from 1901 to 1984. The collection in ARTstor will present the entire range of O’Keeffe’s oeuvre, from her early experiments with abstraction to mature works. Subjects range from the artist’s iconic flowers and bleached desert skulls to nudes, landscapes, cityscapes, still lifes, as well as her highly innovative abstractions.
For more detailed information about this collection, visit the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum collection page.
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December 4, 2008 by artstor
Cornell University Library is partnering with ARTstor to share its Beyond the Taj collection of approximately 6,600 photographs of South Asian architecture. These photographs depict significant works of architecture, cultural traditions, rituals, and pilgrimage sitesfrom the monasteries of Ladakh to the temples of Tamil Nadu. Coverage extends to Buddhist, Hindu, Jain, and Mogul sites throughout India. The core of the collection was assembled over a 22-year period by Robert D. “Scotty” MacDougall (1940-1987), former Professor of Architecture at Cornell University, as well as an anthropologist and practicing architect. MacDougall had a special interest in expanding the study of architectural history to include Asian traditions. His research produced photographs, drawings, and other records that further challenged the boundaries of traditional studies of architecture by emphasizing its domestic, devotional, and vernacular aspects.
The Beyond the Taj collection is the product of a long-term collaboration between Bonnie Graham MacDougall, Associate Professor of Architecture, and Margaret N. Webster, Director of the George W. & Adelaide Knight Visual Resources Facility, in the College of Architecture, Art and Planning at Cornell University.
For more detailed information about this collection, visit the Beyond the Taj: Architectural Traditions and Landscape Experience in South Asia (Cornell University Library) collection page.
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