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Hello all,

 

I read a lot about how to serve the information /visual literacy needs of
studio artists or the students in studio programs. I'm often challenged by
questions posed by studio artists on how to use our subscription image
databases to search for conceptual topics (e.g. identity or aesthetics) or
those that reflect formal aspects of art works (color, perspective,
proportion, distortion, etc.). Artstor is often frustrating for this user
group when framing searches outside of the art history paradigm. Bridgeman
Education is somewhat better in terms of metadata, but other features are
not as user-friendly.  Outside of Google, are there other image databases
you recommend that retrieve results from a more conceptual framework, beyond
author, title, museum collection, medium, country, time period. Will Artstor
or Bridgeman be developing a "see more like this" feature that would extend
the possibilities of searching beyond one or two known items that do fit the
bill once identified? 

 

I showed the painting faculty member the search feature of the Met's
Timeline of Art History, doing a search on "distorted still lifes" and she
was happy to see a rich collection of images and references to the essays on
cubism, fauvism, etc. Do you have any other strategies for using our major
subscription image databases, or using other virtual means to search more
abstract concepts by which a student could assemble a corpus of images?  

 

Margaret D. Ericson|Arts Librarian and Copyright Liaison|Bixler Art and
Music Library|Colby College Libraries|5662 Mayflower Hill|Waterville, Maine
04901|

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(207) 859-5662

 



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