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Art Institute of Chicago - Research Guides. Transitioning to a Digital World: Art History, Its Research Centers, and Digital Scholarship. The Kress Foundation has a longstanding interest in art history research centers both here and abroad.

Transitioning to a Digital World: Art History, Its Research Centers, and Digital Scholarship

For half a century the Foundation has supported the important programs of many such centers, most notably through our institutional pre-doctoral art history fellowship program. Kress also has a strong interest in the emerging digital humanities, and especially in digital art history. In order to help us all understand better the current state of digital art history and how it relates to our traditional art history research centers, we have sponsored a study of the subject. In partnership with the Roy Rosenweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University – a key mode in the emerging network of the digital humanities under the inspired leadership of Daniel Cohen – we invited Diane Zorich to undertake this study.

Executive Summary In 2011, the Samuel H. Download a PDF version of the report Copyright Information Back to Directory. Harvard - Guide to Research in History of Art & Architecture - Harvard Library LibGuides at Harvard Library. NYU - The Institute of Fine Arts. Digital Art History - Digital Art History - Guides at Emory University - Main Library (Woodruff) This guide is inspired by Transitioning to a Digital World Art History, Its Research Centers, and Digital ScholarshipA Report to the The Samuel H.

Digital Art History - Digital Art History - Guides at Emory University - Main Library (Woodruff)

Kress Foundation and The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media George Mason UniversityBy Diane M. Zorich Cultural Heritage Consultant dzorich@mindspring.comMay 2012 Teaser excerpts below to get you to click on the full report The examples listed below, while not comprehensive, give a sense of the type of research art historians might undertake with the aid of digital technologies: Visualizing a work of art in its place over time, e.g., viewing a painting, sculpture, or building in relationship to the environment around it and the changes to that environment over time. Some Barriers: AUP Library Art History Resources. Vocabularies. AAT is a thesaurus containing generic terms, dates, relationships, sources, and notes for work types, roles, materials, styles, cultures, techniques, and other concepts related to art, architecture, and other cultural heritage (e.g., amphora, oil paint, olieverf, acetolysis, sintering, orthographic drawings, Olmeca, Rinascimento, Buddhism, watercolors, asa-no-ha-toji, sralais).

Vocabularies

CONA compiles titles/names and other metadata for works of art, architecture, and other cultural works, current and historical, documented as items or in groups, whether works are extant, destroyed, or never built; in development, may be used to record works depicted in visual surrogates and for other purposes (e.g., Florentine Codex, Codice Fiorentino, Guernica, Girl with a Pearl Earring, Chayasomesvara Temple, Hagia Sofia, The Great Wave, Kanagawa oki nami ura, Le déjeuner sur l'herbe, Venus de Milo). Union List of Artist Names (Research at the Getty) Search Tips For the Find Name field, you may use AND and OR [e.g., 1) eldon garnet, 2) garnet OR carnet, 3) garnet OR carnet OR karnette, 4) eldon AND carnet, 5) eldon AND (garnet OR carnet), 6) (eldon OR elton) AND (garnet OR carnet)].

Union List of Artist Names (Research at the Getty)

Boolean operators must be in all caps (AND and OR). Wildcard is the asterisk (*); right truncation only. To find an exact match rather than a key word, use quotes [e.g., "carlos"]. There is an implied AND between the Find Name, Role, and Nationality fields. About the ULANLearn about the purpose, scope and structure of the ULAN. F.A.Q. about the ULANHere you will find a list of the most frequently asked questions about ULAN.

ULAN@getty.eduClick here to send a message to the ULAN editors. Use of the ULAN Copyright © 2017 The J. Le Delarge, Le Dictionnaire des arts plastiques modernes et contemporains.