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Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 11:17:13 -0400
From: Gayle Williams <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: University of Essex Latin American Art Collection
I received this announcement from a mini CD-ROM sent by the UECLAA. For more
check out their website at
http://www.essex.ac.uk/arts/ueclaa/ueclaa.html
Gayle
University's collection of Latin American Art goes on-line
The University of Essex has been awarded £300,238 to put Latin American Art
onto the internet and make it accessible to people across the globe.
The grants has been awarded by the government's Arts and Humanities Research
Board (AHRB) to Professor Valerie Fraser of the Department of Art History
and Theory, the money will enable the University to create a fully
searchable database, on the internet, of the entire University of Essex
Collection of Latin American Art (UECLAA).
The grant demonstrates that UECLAA is now regarded in the UK as a major
collection of international importance. With over 500 works in a wide
variety of media, and encompassing work from 1900 to the present day, it is
Europe's foremost collection dedicated exclusively to twentieth century
Latin American Art. But with no facilities for display the collection it is
only rarely viewed by the public. This three-year project means the entire
collection will soon be on display world-wide.
Professor Valerie Fraser will be Project Director and Gabriela Salgado, who
is currently curator of UECLAA, will be Project Manager and will oversee the
day-to-day running of the project. Two new positions will also be created at
the University.
The database will be fully illustrated and each item will be accompanied by
some interpretative text. Users will be able to search for information about
Latin American art by categories such as artist's name, nationality or
gender, by date, medium or subject. There will be links to and from other
websites of related interest, including links to the personal websites of
artists represented in the collection and to organisations with interests in
the field of Latin American art. The possibilities for extending the
appreciation and understanding of Latin American art are tremendous.
It is anticipated that the user-group for the site will include university
students, school children, academics, journalists, artists, gallery staff
and anyone with an interest in Latin America. Students on Art History or
Gallery and Museums Studies courses will be able to use the database to
create virtual exhibitions.
There is also potential for collaboration with the University's recently
announced plan for a Centre for the Study of Surrealism and its Legacies
which is also being funded, at a cost of £800,000, by the AHRB.
Professor Fraser said: 'The benefits for the University will be immense.
Viewed by people all around the world we hope that the UECLAA will help
attract new students and researchers, raise the world-wide profile of the
University and enhance the Department of Art History and Theory's already
outstanding reputation.'
'The Collection itself is bound to expand in exciting new directions once it
is displayed on the internet and our planned collaboration with the
Surrealism Centre opens up of possibilities for tremendously innovative
research into Latin American Surrealism - all available world-wide!'
Aims
· To establish UECLAA ON-LINE as a unique research resource for Latin
American art, and promote
scholarship in the field
Objectives
· Convert the existing text-only UECLAA catalogue into a versatile database
· Illustrate this with digitised photographs of each work
· Include biographical, contextual and interpretative text on artists/works
· Incorporate UECLAA archive catalogue, including selected illustrations
· Make this material accessible as UECLAA ON-LINE via redesigned UECLAA
website
· Promote UECLAA ON-LINE via symposia, publications and website
· Train permanent UECLAA staff in the maintenance of on-line database and
website
Outcomes
· On-line resource for research, teaching and reference grounded in a unique
collection of modern
Latin American art otherwise difficult to access
· User-friendly web-site giving access to main resource but also to other
research collections and
information on Latin American art
· Symposia and publications relating to the resource and to Latin American
art
· Greater knowledge and understanding amongst permanent UECLAA staff of
possibilities of IT for
research and teaching
Gayle Williams
Bibliographer for Latin America, Spain & Portugal
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University of Georgia Libraries
Athens GA 30602
phone: (706) 542-0679
fax: (706) 542-4144
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