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The ARTstor Digital Library:
Enhancing Education via Visual Resources
Joanna Fu
Library Relations Associate
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About ARTstor
The ARTstor Digital Library (ADL) is a valuable tool for faculty, students and librarians.
Domenico Remps| Cabinet of Curiosities| second half of the 17th century
ADL makes it possible to find content, manage content, and share content you
have discovered and compiled.
…How are people using these features?
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ARTstor is more than just art…
Architecture and City Planning
ARTstor Content
Photographs
Paintings
Sculpture and Installations
Prints
410,638
109,979
Decorative Arts, Utilitarian Objects and
Interior Design
Manuscripts and Manuscript
Illuminations
Drawings and Watercolors
Humanities and Social Sciences
118,523
Fashion, Costume and Jewelry
123,008
291,238
Garden and Landscape
161,932
238,065
Graphic Design and Illustration
Performing Arts (including Performance
Art)
Film, Audio, Video and Digital Art
Science, Technology and Industry
Maps, Charts and Graphs
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…and is used by more than just artists.
ARTstor Users by Department
Art History
Fine Art
Other
Design and Applied Arts
History
Architecture
Graphic Design
English
Education
Business
Theater
Biology
Psychology
Library Science
Classics
Communication
Film
Social Sciences
Music
Computer Science
Engineering
Economics
Anthropology
Philosophy
Archaeology
Museum Studies
Sociology
Math
Law
Chemistry
Linguistics
American Studies
Dance
Geography
Gender Studies
Conservation
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Digital Library Tool Usage
Advanced Search
Download
Faceted Search
Keyword Search
View Image
View Metadata
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Digital Library Tools and Features
 Related Images
 Offline Image Viewer
 Details and
Duplicates
 Image Groups
 Zoom and Pan
 Save and Print
 Images for Academic
Publishing
 Personal
Collections
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Selected Museum Collections
American Folk Art Museum
The Museum of Modern Art
The Art Institute of Chicago
National Gallery of Art
Asia Society
Natural History Museum, London
Barnes Foundation
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Berlin State Museums
New Museum of Contemporary Art
British Museum
Philadelphia Museum of Art
The Courtauld Gallery
The Phillips Collection
The Frick Collection
San Francisco Museum of Modern
Art
George Eastman House
J. Paul Getty Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Sterling and Francine Clark Art
Los Angeles County Museum of Art Institute
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Richard Morris Hunt and McKim, Mead and White, original building; Kevin Roche, John Dinkeloo and
Associates, renovations | Metropolitan Museum of Art; interior, Leon Levy and Shelby White Court | original
building completed 1902; renovation completed 2011|New York, New York |Photographer: Ralph Lieberman
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Victoria and Albert Museum
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Content in ARTstor
Image classification highlights:
110,000 images of Manuscripts or Manuscript Illuminations
120,000 Decorative Arts and Interior Design Images
290,000 Photographs, from art photography to
photojournalism
400,000 images classified as architectural content
Chinese | Covered Box with Design of Scholar and Attendant in a Landscape, late 16th-early 17th
century | Image and original data provided by Saint Louis Art Museum, slam.org/
Henri Meunier, Pollet et Vittet, Chocolaterie de Pepinster, 1896. Image and data from: The Museum of
Modern Art
Herod the Great | High Aqueduct, built circa 22-10 BC | Caesarea, Israel | Image and original data provided
by Shmuel Magal, Sites and Photos, sites-and-photos.com
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Architecture Collection Highlights:
• ART on File: Contemporary Architecture, Urban Design
and Public Art
• The Museum of Modern Art: Architecture and Design
• QTVR Panoramas of World Architecture
• SAHARA (Society of Architectural Historians Architecture
Resource Archive)
• Ezra Stoller: Modern Architecture (Esto)
•World Monuments Fund
•Ralph Lieberman: Architectural Photography
Dennis Stock:;The Guggenheim Museum. Architect Frank O. Gehry, 1998
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Architectural Plans and Designs
Diller + Scofidio, Slow House, project North Haven Point, Long Island, New York, 1989
Rem Koolhaas, Elia Zenghelis; Roosevelt Island Redevelopment, project New York City; 1975
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Plans and Designs Contd.
Samaria (Palestine) Conjectural plan of Dar-El-Khalif. (Palace of Caliphs); c.850.; Sabastiyah (Samaria),
West Bank, Israel
Priene. Theater. Later scene building. Plans. Top: plan of scene building and theater. Bottom: plan of
second story;300-200 BCE; Priene (Turunçlar), Turkey
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Contemporary Architecture
China Pavilion; straight on overview of the west side of the building; 2010, Photographed
2010. Image and original data provided by ART on FILE, www.artonfile.com
Pei Cobb Freed & partners,Tour Pacific et Pont Japan; overview of building from the Axe
de la Defense, 2001, Photographed 2011.
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Unique Content: Architecture and Design Image Groups
architecture and design courses.
Curated groups of 100 seminal
images taught in introductorylevel architecture and design
courses:
"Architecture and the Built
Environment"
"Architecture to 1900: Plans and
Models”
“Design and Decorative Arts”
“Gardens and Landscape
Architecture.”
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Unique Content: Selected Monuments in AP Art History
A new initiative at ARTstor to help
for faculty members teaching
Advanced Placement Art History:
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Examine the correlation
between key monuments and
themes through detailed
image groups
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Covers a broad range of art
historical topics from the
ancient world to the present
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13 image groups, and many
more to come
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To the Digital Library…
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Travel Awards 2011: A Shakespeare Gallery
"ARTstor has changed the way I teach Shakespeare.
Images of the Globe Theater and panoramic maps of
Elizabethan London set the stage for our engagement
with the plays. Veronese’s Wedding at Cana [left] puts
the cosmopolitan world of sixteenth-century Venice on
extravagant display, with an African cup-bearer,
turbaned Turks and Moors, court musicians, fantastical
wedding costumes, and a stage-like setting.”
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Illustrative use of visual images to
provide historical context
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ARTstor mages create design
backdrops for student readings of
scenes from Shakespeare
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Images great enhance student
learning and experience
Julia Reinhard Lupton, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine
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Travel Awards 2011: Online Teaching and Architectural
Solutions to Climate Problems in the Islamic World
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Introduction to Islamic Art History Course
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Images for class are organized thematically, with a
focus on fine and utilitarian objects and buildings
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Images show technology, materials, and plans that
naturally temper hot and dry climate conditions
"ARTstor has helped me
create digital bridges
between students and
subject matter...ARTstor’s
varied content has also
helped me be more
efficient. I can find most
of the images I need in
one location without
additional searches,
imports, and scans."
Colette Apelian, Fine Art faculty, Berkeley City College
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Travel Awards 2012: Silk Through the Ages
"The ARTstor image group complemented our
physical collection and also provided unique
imagery documenting the history of the silkworm
industry and examples of silk used across cultures
and throughout history."
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Images were used for a class on fiber history to
show the weaves of different silk textures and
track the evolution of the fabric over time
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High resolution of images allow students to
zoom in and see repairs and textures of fabric
Amelia Nelson, Cataloging and Digital Services Librarian, Kansas City Art Institute
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Questions?
Joanna Fu, Library Relations Associate
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