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Each May, around the world, almost twenty five thousand students sit for the AP® Art History exam. This year’s test falls on the third of […]
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Editor’s note: this post has been updated to reflect the name change from Shared Shelf to JSTOR Forum. We invited Lisa Laughy, Web Services/Archives Assistant at St. […]
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On his famous three voyages to the South Seas, British explorer Captain James Cook charted the largely unexplored Pacific Ocean, achieved the first recorded European […]
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Democritus is primarily remembered for theorizing that all matter consists of particles called atoms, and this stunning quote: “Nothing exists except atoms and space, everything […]
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By Joseph Costello, Medical Librarian, Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine Prompt: Imagine the human expression of anguish. An amalgamation of stories, […]
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To celebrate Artstor’s collaboration with the RISD Museum, our friends at the museum graciously created a lightning-tour of their encyclopedic collection in the Digital Library […]
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To celebrate Artstor’s collaboration with the RISD Museum, our friends at the museum graciously created a lightning-tour of their encyclopedic collection in the Digital Library […]
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Next week we will offer Teaching Global Contemporary Art in AP® Art History, the second in our series of occasional webinars on works of art […]
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Editor’s note: this post was updated to include current information about Artstor’s platform for public collections. At the end of 1917, the Federated Home & School […]
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If you’re still trying to adjust to the start of Daylight Saving Time, we’d like to give you a little bit of advice: don’t let […]
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By Katy Matsuzaki, Manager of Academic Programs, New Britain Museum of American Art Recently a group of docents at the New Britain Museum of American Art […]
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Editor’s note: this post was originally published in February 2013 and has been updated to reflect platform changes. Did you know that Artstor contains publicly […]
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As we built our AP® Art History Teaching Resources over the last three years, we found ourselves fascinated by some of the newly required content. […]
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Alliance will enhance access to multimedia digital resources to support education and research James Shulman, President of Artstor, and Kevin Guthrie, President of ITHAKA, today […]
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Frida Kahlo is world-famous for her self-portraits, which were a big part of her relatively small oeuvre (55 out of 144 paintings), while her husband […]
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No doubt you are familiar with the work of the renowned wildlife artist John James Audubon, most likely his famous prints from The Birds of […]
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Kenyon Cox (1856-1919) might now be best remembered for his murals in the Library of Congress, as well as in the state capitol buildings of Des […]
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Jenny Barker Devine, Associate Professor of History at Illinois College and the author of On Behalf of the Family Farm, shares her thoughts on how the Consortium […]
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Earlier this summer we announced that with $2.2 million in support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Artstor and the Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) […]
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We’ve gathered six examples that illustrate how the images in Artstor can be used to enhance the teaching and learning of architecture and architectural history, […]
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There’s hidden sweetness in the stomach’s emptiness. We are lutes, no more, no less. If the sound boxes stuffed full of anything, no music. If […]
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To the pioneers of Minimalism, Agnes Martin’s grid paintings were an early source of inspiration. To the Abstract Expressionists, Martin was a peer, whose use […]
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Good news for English instructors: We have four new Curriculum Guides–collections of images from the Artstor Digital Library based on syllabi for college courses–covering different […]
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Good news: You can now access all of Artstor’s Teaching Resources through the Artstor Digital Library’s Browse menu! All three of our AP® Teaching Resources–for Advanced […]
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In addition to still images, you can find videos, audio files, 3D images, and panorama (QTVR) files within the Artstor Workspace. You can search by […]
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Artstor has named the 30 community members of the new Artstor Digital Library User Advisory Board. The members represent a variety of areas of our […]
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He was only eighteen years old, yet William Turner’s watercolors were already praised in print as follows: “By dint of his superior art he has […]
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La Española, the island now divided into the Dominican Republic and the Republic of Haiti, existed first as a Spanish colony during the entire sixteenth […]
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Édouard Manet’s Luncheon on the Grass was the scandal of the year in France when it was exhibited in the 1863 Salon des Refusés, and […]
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I recently came across the BBC adaptation of Émile Zola’s The Ladies’ Paradise and, as a self-confessed Francophile, couldn’t wait to begin watching it. A […]
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