Category: Online Resources

Publication | New open access journal ‘British Art Studies’ from the Paul Mellon Centre

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The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art (PMC), London, and the Yale Center for British Art (YCBA), New Haven have launched a new online and open access journal called British Art Studies. It is always great to see more open access publications and the interface of this online journal has clearly been carefully thought through and designed specifically for online reading (rather than just pdfs on a website). From the editorial of their first edition: British Art Studies is the joint publication of two research centres dedicated to British art: the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art (PMC), London, and the Yale Center for British Art (YCBA), New Haven. The journal has grown out of many conversations and collaborations between the two centres, working with scholars and institutions worldwide. The foremost aim of British Art Studies (BAS) is to…

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Survey | Wellcome Trust survey on Third Party Image Permissions for Electronic Publications

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A survey by the Wellcome Trust aims to gather information about the challenges faced by researchers who want to publish images in ebooks and online. We are trying to learn about the challenges researchers face when wanting to use images from third parties in electronic publications such as e-books and online articles. “Third party” includes image providers like the Tate, V&A, Wellcome Images, Getty Images, etc. We want your feedback to help us find out how best we can alleviate some of these problems. You can take the survey here: https://dotmailer-surveys.com/032pxje8-451bez96

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Read | Words + Pictures from ANU Centre for Art History and Art Theory

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A new-ish (three months old) website from the ANU Centre for Art History and Art Theory is publishing student reviews of exhibitions and discussions about art. Description from the website: Words + Pictures is a student run initiative of the ANU Centre for Art History and Art Theory. The blog aims to become a platform to showcase and discuss both the written and visual work of the students of the School of Art. Words + Pictures includes exhibition reviews, previews for student exhibitions, and will serve to facilitate and document connections between students across the School of Art. You can read recent posts on the Words + Pictures website here: http://cahat.weblogs.anu.edu.au/

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Database | Early Modern British Painters, c. 1500-1640

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Art History News alerts us to a new database on Early Modern British Painters, c. 1500-1640 compiled by Robert Tittler. See the database here. The database is described as This resource identifies all those men and women who have been identified as painters of any sort working in England, Wales, Scotland or Ireland between the years 1500 and 1640. At this posting, it includes 2,578 such entries. It includes those who were native to the British Isles and also those aliens who came and worked there at any time during this era. It also includes those whom contemporary occupational descriptions refer to as pursuing any specialty within the general category of ‘painter’ including, e.g., ‘limner’, ‘picture-painter’, ‘glass-painter’, ‘herald painter’, ‘manuscript illuminator’, etc. Each entry indicates, wherever possible, the places of origin and of residence, contemporary occupational description, dates of life and of…

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Online Resources | Getty releases ULAN database as linked open data

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The Getty has released its Union List of Artist Names (ULAN)® as linked open data. It is available with other Getty vocabularies (The Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT) ® and The Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN) ®) here. About the database The Union List of Artist Names (ULAN)® is a resource containing more than 650,000 names and biographical information for current and historical artists, architects, patrons, workshops, firms, museums, and other people and groups associated with the creation and history of art, architecture, and other works of cultural heritage. ULAN includes records for identified people, as well as for anonymous “hands.” It also includes links to related people and groups within ULAN, as well as links to places in the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names® (TGN) and to terms in the Getty’s renowned thesaurus of cultural heritage terminology, the…

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Publication of EMAJ Issue 8

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The editors of EMAJ (electronic Melbourne art journal) are pleased to announce the publication of issue 8. 2015 marks ten years of online, open-access art history publishing in Melbourne. EMAJ remains dedicated to publishing peer-reviewed scholarly articles on a broad range of art historical topics and is edited by a group of volunteer art history graduates and early career researchers based in Melbourne. Table of contents below - to download the full articles please visit http://emajartjournal.com/current-issue/ The call for papers for EMAJ 9 closes on April 30th 2015 - http://emajartjournal.com/call-for-papers-emaj-9/   emaj issue 8, 2014-2015 EDITORS Nicholas Croggon, Giles Fielke, Katrina Grant, Helen Hughes, Tim Ould, Amelia Sully, Christopher Williams Wynn ARTICLES War and Peace: 200 Years of Australian-German Artistic Relations | REX BUTLER & A.D.S. DONALDSON An overview of Australian-German Artistic Relations over the past two hundred years. The guns…

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Online Resource | Smithsonian Asian Art collection goes online

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A story from the Art Newspaper that the Smithsonian Museum’s extensive collection of Asuian Art will all be available to browse online from 1 January next year. Part of a project by the Smithsonian to make its entire collection available online with open access.   The Smithsonian’s museums of Asian art in Washington, DC, are due to release their entire collections online on 1 January 2015. More than 40,000 works, from ancient Chinese jades to 13th-century Syrian metalwork and 19th-century Korans, will be accessible through high-resolution images without copyright restrictions for non-commercial use. The vast majority—nearly 35,000 objects—have never been seen by the public. The Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery are the first Smithsonian museums and the only Asian art museums to complete the labour-intensive process of digitising and releasing their entire collections online. The project,…

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Online Resource | Unpublished archives of British artists made available online

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The Tate has begun to digitise its archives of British artists. These objects, which include letters, drawings, diaries, and photographs are now available to everyone to view on the Tate’s website. It also seems like much (or even all) of the material has been released under a non-commercial, non-derivative Collective Commons license. From the Tate press release Tate announced today that intimate love letters from Paul Nash to his wife, touching family photographs of Jacob Epstein, unpublished images revealing Eduardo Paolozzi’s playful nature, 45 volumes of Barbara Hepworth’s sculpture records and correspondence from William Nicholson to his son Ben are among the first batch of items to be made available on Tate’s website for a world-wide audience as part of the Archives and Access project.The project draws on the world’s largest archive of British Art - Tate Archive - and brings it together…

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Online Resources | Europa Inventa Database: Early European Objects in Australasian Collections

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A new resource for people working on European art history and history via the ANZAMEMS website. Australasian libraries, galleries and museums hold many thousands of unique and irreplaceable European manuscripts, art works and historic objects dating from the eleventh to the eighteenth centuries. They are of great value to researchers – both in Australasia and in Europe – not just for their contents but for what they reveal about the persistence of the Early European heritage in Australasia. Collectively and individually, they are unique national treasures of Australia and New Zealand. Europa Inventa (“Europe Discovered”) is the first systematic description of these Early European materials. The Europa Inventa database currently contains information about 1,700 artworks and 300 medieval manuscripts held in the major Australian libraries, galleries and museums. It is one of the digital services developed for the ARC Research…

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