Archive for the SCAD DID Category
The VRC has recently added a selection of ephemera printed by the Ashantilly Press from the Jen Library Special Collections to the SCAD DID. These images can be easily browsed in the SCAD DID by selecting the Graphic Design category and entering “Ashantilly Press” in the Artist Name field. The Ashantilly Press was founded in the mid-1950′s in Darien, Georgia by Bill Haynes and published books, broadsides, cards, and various ephemera until 1991. Over the past couple of years the Jen Library has managed to assemble an impressive collection of Ashantilly Press material. Please visit the Jen Library Archives and Special Collections blog for a thoughtful overview of this collection.
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Below is a sampling of over 400 History of Costume images recently added to the SCAD DID. This comprehensive collection documents the changes in garments and hairstyles from Ancient Egypt through the 1990′s. These images can be easily browsed by selecting the Fashion category and entering “History of Costume” in the Book Source field.
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Below is a sampling of recent additions to the SCAD DID acquired from Scholars Resource, including images of paintings, sculpture, and decorative art objects from the collections of the Louvre, Musee d’Orsay, Pushkin Museum, and Tretyakov Gallery. These images can be easily browsed in the SCAD DID by selecting a Category and entering “Scholars Resource 10086″ in the Archive Source field.
above, clockwise from upper left:
Young Woman Combing Her Hair. 1635. Salomon de Bray. Musee du Louvre, Paris, France
Icon – Saint Simeon. 16th Century. Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Two Cats. 1894. Theophile Steinlen. Pushkin Museum, Moscow, Russia
The Crucifixion. c.1910. Odilon Redon. Musee d’Orsay, Paris, France
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Below is a sample of recent additions to the SCAD DID acquired from Scholars Resource, including images of works from the collections of the Musee d’Orsay, Musee du Louvre, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Hamburger Kunsthalle, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Also included in this group are images of such architectural sites as the Alhambra, Bauhaus, and Copan. These images can be easily browsed in the SCAD DID by selecting a Category and entering “Scholars Resource 10044″ in the Archive Source field.
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Bauhaus. 1925-1926. Walter Gropius
Vessel. 1992. Kioke Shoko. Cleveland Museum of Art
Seated Female Nude. c.1810-1820. Pierre-Paul Prud’hon. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Lamentation. 1485. Carlo Crivelli. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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The VRC will be conducting a workshop for SCAD faculty, staff, and students on Friday, March 11, 2:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m., Jen Library, room 108. The purpose of this session is to highlight the digital resources that are available to faculty and to demonstrate the fundamentals of using ARTstor to find and save images, to download and organize images from the SCAD Digital Image Database (DID), and how to incorporate these images using the ARTstor Offline Image Viewer (OIV) to create class presentations. Participants will also learn how to have images added to the SCAD DID to fill the needs of specific courses and student presentations.
Seating is limited so please email vrc@scad.edu, or call 525-4726 to reserve a spot.
If you cannot attend, but would like to be shown the operations covered in the training sessions, please call or email the VRC to make an appointment for individual training.
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Below is a sample of recent additions to the SCAD DID of approx. 70 jewelry objects from various museum collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and the Kremlin Armoury Museum.
These images can be easily browsed in the SCAD DID by selecting the Jewelry & Personal Category and entering “Scholars Resource 9959″ in the Archive Source field.
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The Anastasis. Byzantine, 12th Century. Armoury Museum, Kremlin, Moscow, Russia
Earring with Nike Driving a Two-horse Chariot. Greek, c.35-325 BC. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
Necklace. Eugene Fontenay. c.1870. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Frog Pendant. Chiriqui, Costa Rica. c.11th – 16th Century. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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The VRC will be conducting workshops for SCAD faculty, staff, and students on Friday, November 5, 10:00 a.m. – 11.30 a.m., and Tuesday, November 9, 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m., Jen Library, room 108. The purpose of these sessions is to highlight the digital resources that are available to faculty and to demonstrate the fundamentals of using ARTstor to find and save images, to download and organize images from the SCAD Digital Image Database (DID), and how to incorporate these images using the ARTstor Offline Image Viewer (OIV) to create class presentations. Participants will also learn how to have images added to the SCAD DID to fill the needs of specific courses and student presentations.
Seating is limited so please email vrc@scad.edu, or call 525-4726 to reserve a spot.
If you cannot attend, but would like to be shown the operations covered in the training sessions, please call or email the VRC to make an appointment for individual training.
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The VRC will be conducting a workshop for SCAD faculty, staff, and students on Tuesday, October 12, 10:00 a.m. – 11.30 a.m., Jen Library, room 108. The purpose of this session is to highlight the digital resources that are available to faculty and to demonstrate the fundamentals of using ARTstor to find and save images, to download and organize images from the SCAD Digital Image Database (DID), and how to incorporate these images using the ARTstor Offline Image Viewer (OIV) to create class presentations. Participants will also learn how to have images added to the SCAD DID to fill the needs of specific courses and student presentations.
Seating is limited so please email vrc@scad.edu, or call 525-4726 to reserve a spot.
If you cannot attend, but would like to be shown the operations covered in the training sessions, please call or email the VRC to make an appointment for individual training.
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Below is a sample of recent additions to the SCAD DID of over 130 Islamic objects from the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, including examples of textiles, manuscripts, calligraphy, armor, and ceramics.
These images can be easily browsed in the SCAD DID by selecting the Islamic Period and entering “Scholars Resource 9633″ in the Archive Source field.
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Melancholy Courtesan. c.1750. India, Mughal.
Helmet. 15th Century. Iran, Safavid.
Carpet. 16th Century. Iran, Safavid.
Mosque Lamp. Late 14th Century. Egypt, Mamluk.
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The VRC has recently added digital images to the SCAD DID from the following architecture books:
Stamper, John W. The Architecture of Roman Temples: The Republic to the Middle Empire
Posener, Julius. Han Poelzig: Reflections on His Life and Work
Tavernor, Robert. On Alberti and the Art of Building
Blunt, Anthony. Borromini
De Albentiis, Emidio. Secrets of Pompeii: Everyday Life in Ancient Rome
Ward-Perkins, J.B. Roman Imperial Architecture
Eaton, Ruth. Ideal Cities: Utopianism and the (Un)built Environment
Riley, Terence. The Changing of the Avant-Garde: Visionary Architectural Drawings
Broto, Carles. Domestic Interiors Now
Images from these sources can be easily located in the SCAD DID by entering a book title in the Book Source field.
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