The ARTstor core content has almost a million images available for subscribers to use for educational purposes. Christine Kuan, Director of Collection Development, recently provide information about new images from exceptional collections that are now available, such as: Scala; the Bodleian Library; the Phillips Collection; Canyonlights; Council of Independent Colleges (CIC HCAP); contemporary art photographed by Larry Qualls; Columbia University Quicktime Virtual Reality (QTVR) panoramas of Venice; Terra Foundation American art; and the Berlin State Museums. She also elaborated on new collaborations and forthcoming collections including: field photographs and Indian monuments and architecture from the American Institute of Indian Studies; Columbia University QTVRs of Mali, West Africa; stained glass from the Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi (CVMA) and the National Monuments Record (NMR); medieval stained glass from Madeline Caviness; performance art from the Franklin Furnace Archives; Islamic art from Shangri La; contemporary architecture in Spain photographed by ART on FILE; and Renaissance and Baroque book illustrations from the Warburg Institute. For full collections descriptions, see:
http://www.artstor.org/what-is-artstor/w-html/collection-status.shtml . |