UCLA Arts Library Art and Art History Blog

UCLA now has access to excellent quality architectural images from Archivision, through ARTstor [go to http://library.artstor.org/library/  (listed under ‘Institutional Collections’)].

Here is the collection’s description, from:
http://archivision.com/educational/overview.html

THE BASE COLLECTION (16,000 images)
The Library’s Base Collection is a core architecture collection representing major Greek, Roman, Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, 18th & 19th Century and Modern sites. The focus here is the Italian Renaissance and Baroque and Modern architecture, especially the work of Louis Kahn and Le Corbusier. The collection also includes gardens & parks, city skylines, cityscapes and public art as well as other design related topics, such as C.R. Mackintosh furniture drawings, etc.

ADDITION MODULE ONE (6,000 images)
The first Addition Module completes our holdings on Renaissance and Baroque Rome not included in the Base Collection. It also contains all of our Ancient Egyptian material (close to 2000 images – this was our major photographic campaign of 2004). The collection also holds all of our Islamic material in Egypt, as well as overview sets on Cairo, Aswan and Luxor. Many contemporary sites are also included, especially those in Vancouver, Seattle, Boston and Montréal.

ADDITION MODULE TWO (6,000 images)
Module Two contains all of our Andrea Palladio material (over 700 images, of which 299 are Scamozzi etchings illustrating plans, sections and elevations of Palladio’s work); all of the Hector Guimard collection (229 images); Fascist architecture in Italy; most of our holdings from London England; and the balance of our Ancient Greek and Bramante material not contained in the first two modules. The Module also includes all of our Islamic architecture in Turkey plus contemporary architecture in Florida, New York, Montreal, and Washington DC. The Module is rounded out with 300 exquisite new (May 2007) photographs of the exterior and interiors of Mackintosh’s Hill House.

For more information, please contact Janine Henri, Architecture, Design and Digital Servives Librarian.

Grove Art Online (including the Grove Dictionary of Art) will form the centerpiece of an important new online gateway, Oxford Art Online—the new access point for new and forthcoming Oxford art reference subscriptions and products. Oxford Art Online will offer users the ability to access and cross-search Oxford reference and Grove content in one location.Oxford Art Online includes the full text of the Grove Dictionary of Art, the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, the Oxford Companion to Western Art, as well as new Grove/MoMA learning resources, a world art timeline and thematic guides, and linking with ARTstor for mutual subscribers.

The new site further allows users to search for images and image links efficiently in a single place. This enhancement permits users to easily discover the more than 5,000 images from many sources, which include the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), Art Images for College Teaching (AICT), and the Artists Rights Society.