Dear colleagues,
I'm pleased to share this news relating to modern and contemporary art in
ARTstor.
Max Marmor
ARTstor
MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ART IN ARTSTOR: AN UPDATE
We know that many ARTstor users have been eagerly awaiting the day when
ARTstor would be able to offer a representative body of 20th – and now
21st – century art. And so we would now like to announce that we have
recently released into the ARTstor Digital Library tens of thousands of
images of modern and contemporary art works by scores of artists. Artists
now represented in ARTstor range from William Baziotes and Isabel Bishop to
Jacob Lawrence and Kasimir Malevich to Frank Lloyd Wright and Francisco
Zuńiga.
We are continuing to negotiate agreements that will allow us to offer an
expanding body of modern and contemporary art images. And in coming weeks
we will expect to announce both the addition of further 20th (and 21st!)
century art images as well as a series of collection development
partnerships that focus specifically on modern and contemporary art – such
as the following announcement of an important partnership with the Cooper
Union in the area of graphic design.
COLLABORATIVE AGREEMENT REACHED BETWEEN THE COOPER UNION FOR THE
ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART AND ARTSTOR
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art and ARTstor are
pleased to announce that they have reached an agreement whereby the Herb
Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography (part of Cooper Union’s
School of Art) and ARTstor will collaborate on the distribution through
ARTstor of several thousand high quality digital images of modern graphic
design. This collaboration will focus initially on a digital design
archive previously familiar to the graphic design community as the National
Graphic Design Image Database. We anticipate making these images available
to ARTstor users in the course of the spring semester 2006.
The focus of the Lubalin Center’s efforts, including the effort represented
by the former National Graphic Design Image Database, has been to
disseminate material related to the history of visual communication in the
twentieth century and to encourage and support interdisciplinary studies of
visual history and communication. The present collaboration will make this
rich body of visual material and related scholarship available online in
ARTstor, where it will complement related graphic design materials from a
variety of sources. The audience for these highly valued materials will
include teachers, students, designers, and all students of the history of
visual communications, who will value having the ability to access, browse,
and make rich educational artistic uses of this valued resource.
“The collection created by the Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and
Typography represents a pioneering effort in the documentation and
dissemination of graphic design history,” says Ellen Lupton, Curator of
Contemporary Design, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. “The on-line
collection is an invaluable and unequaled resource for designers, students,
and educators." Sheila de Bretteville, Professor of Graphic Design, Yale
University, adds that “an online resource devoted to the history as well as
the most advanced contemporary forms of graphic design is essential to
students, faculty and practitioners hungry for this visual stimulation.
ARTstor’s effort to resurrect the former National Graphic Design Image
Database would be a most needed and desired start!”
In reaching this agreement, Mike Essl, full-time faculty member in graphic
design at Cooper Union, expressed his enthusiasm in collaborating with
ARTstor to make this important graphic design resource more broadly
available for noncommercial artistic, pedagogical and artistic
purposes. “The Lubalin Center is very pleased to be working with ARTstor
in making our online digital image archives more widely available to
students and researchers in the field and excited to participate in its
representation of modern design content.” Max Marmor, ARTstor’s Director
of Collection Development, expressed ARTstor’s keen interest in this
partnership. “The Lubalin Center’s graphic design collections, and its
admirable efforts to make them available in digital form, are well-known.
We at ARTstor are delighted to help in reviving the pioneering effort
embodied in the former National Graphic Design Image Database, and to help
make the Lubalin Center’s resources more readily available to artists,
teachers and students.”
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, established in
1859, is among the nation's oldest and most distinguished institutions of
higher learning. The college, the legacy of Peter Cooper, occupies a
special place in the history of American education. It is the only private,
full-scholarship college in the United States dedicated exclusively to
preparing students for the professions of art, architecture and
engineering. Since opening in 1985, the Herb Lubalin Study Center of
Design and Typography has served as a hands-on research facility for
students, faculty, design professionals and the public. The facility has
evolved into a multifaceted resource devoted to the documentation and
preservation of the history of graphic design.
ARTstor was created in 2001 as a nonprofit initiative of The Andrew W.
Mellon Foundation, and is now an independent non-profit organization
dedicated to serving education and scholarship in the arts and the
humanities through the utilization of digital technologies. Currently,
more than 435 nonprofit institutions in the United States are participating
in ARTstor, and ARTstor anticipates making its library of digital images
available to nonprofit institutions outside of the United States as well.
For more information on ARTstor, see the ARTstor website at www.artstor.org.
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