JSTOR Blog
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The Open: Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa collection is now available, featuring a selection of more than 45,000 images under Creative Commons licenses.
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In the nineteenth century, artists like Thomas Eakins brought the drama of the operating theater to canvas, capturing both the intensity of surgical practice and the rise of modern medical techniques. His landmark works, The Gross Clinic and The Agnew Clinic, reveal a vivid intersection of art, science, and history.
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Seize the season! Once again we have crossed the Thanksgiving threshold into full-blown festivities and the crescendo to the new year. In celebration of the […]
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A unique offering from a second-generation Abstract Expressionist Art historian Robert Solomon has just contributed the Joseph Stapleton: Self-Portraits collection to Artstor. Below, he provides […]
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The Open: Science Museum Group collection is now available, featuring a selection of nearly 50,000 images from the Science Museum Group (UK) under Creative Commons […]
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Open: Folger Shakespeare Library is now available with a selection of more than 8,000 images from the Digital Image Collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library. Provided […]
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The Open: Wellcome Collection is now available, featuring a selection of more than 100,000 images from the Wellcome Collection that connect science, medicine, technology, life, […]
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More than 2 million of the images in Artstor are now discoverable alongside JSTOR’s vast scholarly content, providing you with primary sources and vital critical […]
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More than 2 million of the images in Artstor are now discoverable alongside JSTOR’s vast scholarly content, providing you with primary sources and vital critical […]
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Three collections, freely available on JSTOR, feature bird illustrations from the 16th through the 19th centuries and showcase evolving techniques, influential bird artists, and early wildlife photography.
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Dostoevsky’s encounter with Holbein’s unvarnished Dead Christ shaped The Idiot, revealing how the painting’s stark realism challenged his faith and informed his probing vision of belief amid suffering.
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Books of hours are devotional texts that contain a personalized selection of prayers, hymns, psalms, and New Testament excerpts chosen specifically for their owner. Popular […]
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Summer solstice brings us the longest, sunniest days of the year. The season also sparkles with starry nights, and getaways in July and August provide […]
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From our friends at JSTOR Daily The purse has always been political, a reflection of changing economic realities and gender roles. Blame the Balenciaga IKEA […]
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Dr. Kelli Morgan, Associate Curator of American Art at the Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA) at Newfields introduces us to some of the American gems […]
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What’s new in JSTOR? Bowdoin College Museum of Art Contributor: Bowdoin College Museum of Art Content: The Museum has contributed 2,000 additional images of its […]
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JSTOR is replete with images from nature: arks of animals, a plethora of plants, and the dazzling spectacles of the earth. Meticulous renderings of animal […]
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What’s new in JSTOR? Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields Contributor: Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields Content: The Museum has contributed 4,254 additional images […]
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Photographer and anthropologist Frank Cancian has been documenting international communities for more than fifty years. His recent contribution to JSTOR in collaboration with University of […]
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What’s new in the Artstor Digital Library? Collection: Frank Cancian Documentary Photograph Archive Contributor: University of California Irvine Libraries, Photographer/anthropologist Frank Cancian, Professor Emeritus, UC […]
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Medieval reliquaries, which contained sacred relics, evolved along with early Christian beliefs about martyrdom and divinity, and the function of the sacred in devotional life.
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It may come as a surprise that JSTOR is flush with fashion. For a dose of glamour, how about a stroll down the red carpet, […]
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In the summer of 1675, Madame de Sévigné, a doyenne of letters, protested from Paris: “It is horribly cold… we think the behaviour of the […]
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Thanks to an additional contribution from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, we are now able to present a fuller picture of the […]
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Our thanks to New York photographer Bob Gore, who contributed approximately 300 images from his portfolio to JSTOR, documenting diverse expressions of faith across the […]
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Our thanks to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), which contributed the Roger Brown Study Collection, over 800 images of the artist’s […]
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Our thanks to the Pacita Abad Art Estate, which contributed 500 images of the artist’s work to the Artstor Digital Library.* The selection in Artstor […]
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When you see Andy Warhol’s name, his Pop Art paintings of Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, and Campbell’s soup cans probably spring to mind. But Warhol’s […]
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Every year the subject of food rises in our thoughts and comes into greater and more glorious focus as we are swept up in a […]
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The William Randolph Hearst Archive has contributed a collection of 2,050 images to Artstor, providing an intriguing perspective on the collecting passions of Hearst, the […]
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