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Celebrate Juneteenth with a virtual exhibition of African American quilts, showcasing the strength and community of quilters throughout history. Explore the artistry, history, and significance of these beautiful quilts in this commemoration of freedom, justice, and equality.
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Access 2+ million rights-cleared academic images and multimedia integrated with JSTOR’s scholarly content—trusted by libraries and educators for research and teaching.
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Discover JSTOR’s expanding collections, encompassing African, African American, and Asian content, alongside domains like social justice, human geography, environmental studies, public health, and natural sciences. Uncover captivating works like Barbara Anello’s striking photographs of Khmer sites, Arthur Szyk’s masterpieces, and more.
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Discover, tools, new content, and Artstor’s growth! Get the lay of the land with our handy resources. Welcome new participants and welcome back, old friends!
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Discover the emotional journey of Art Historian Magda Salvesen as she curates the estate of American painter Jon Schueler. Dive into the captivating world of Artists’ Estates and explore the intricate balance between reputation and trust.
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Discover the beastly alphabet by JSTOR, dedicated to preventing cruelty to animals. Get ready to be amazed by the incredible creatures we can conjure!
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Discover a wealth of inspiring resources on women’s topics. From licensed to public content, explore JSTOR’s collection in honor of International Women’s Day.
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Discover how our cherished feline companions have enriched our lives during lockdown. Join us as we explore the bond between humans and cats through captivating portraits and unique comparisons to renowned works on JSTOR.
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Needless to say, 2020 has been a year like no other, and it’s marked everything we did at Artstor. We tried to help institutions and students meet the challenges of remote teaching, released new content — with a strong emphasis on freely accessible Open Artstor collections — and tried to brighten things up on our…
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More than 3 million of the images in Artstor are now discoverable alongside JSTOR’s vast scholarly content, providing you with primary sources and vital critical and historical background on one platform. This blog post is one of a series demonstrating how the two resources complement each other, providing a richer, deeper research experience…
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“Someone struggled for your right to vote. Use it.” — Susan B. Anthony As the United States holds its 2020 presidential elections, we rounded up a selection of images that reflect the importance of voting–throughout history and around the world. We encourage you to cast a vote and make your voice heard.
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Artstor has published nearly 42,000 images from the U. S. National Library of Medicine’s Images from the History of Medicine, freely available to all for reuse under the Creative Commons Public Domain mark. Open Artstor: Images from the History of Medicine (National Library of Medicine) is part of an initiative to aggregate open museum, library,…
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Explore and celebrate the vibrant cultures of Mexico, Central & South America, and the Hispanic Caribbean during Hispanic Heritage Month. Discover Latin American topics with the Artstor Digital Library’s specialized collections. Start your journey now!
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Discover Artstor’s vast Public Collections with over 1.3 million freely accessible images and materials. Delve into Latin American content for Hispanic Heritage Month and explore notable highlights.
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Discover the true essence of Hispanic heritage beyond stereotypes with a curated collection of diverse and creative images. Celebrate the beauty and uniqueness of our many heritages, showcasing the rich cultural tapestry.
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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 and historical background on one platform. This blog post is one of a series demonstrating how the two resources complement each other, providing a richer, deeper research experience in all…
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We at Artstor/ITHAKA are so devoted to our canines that we share a dogspotting channel that provides a steady stream of engaging pictures. During the crisis, as we isolate with our pets, the photos and anecdotes have proliferated. In tribute to our best friends who delight and support us during this time, we would like…
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Missing your favorite museums? Let us reveal them to you remotely. JSTOR offers comprehensive coverage of the collections of well over 100 international museums and galleries through various accesses—ranging from fully public, from our community collaborators, as well as open collections with works entirely in the public domain—to selections in Artstor that are available to…
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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 prompt to eat, drink, and be merry, we would like to present some inspiring visions. Let’s begin with the harvest itself, the basis of all feasts and the bountiful personification…
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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 a perspective on the artist and his significant output of self-portrait drawings. Joseph Stapleton (1921-1994) was one of an estimated 400 artists who poured into New York City’s Tenth Street…
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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 and historical background on one platform. This blog post is one of a series demonstrating how the two resources complement each other, providing a richer, deeper research experience in all…
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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 and historical background on one platform. This blog post is one of a series demonstrating how the two resources complement each other, providing a richer, deeper research experience in all…
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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 in the Middle Ages, the most expensive of these books could be highly decorated, but the more affordable versions usually only showed minimal decoration, usually of the first letter of…
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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 an escape from the urban glare, enhancing our appreciation of stellar skies. In homage to the stars, we have mined the resources of Artstor to present some outstanding celestial subjects…
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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 bag. When the $2,145 luxury lambskin version of the familiar blue plastic shopping bag appeared on the runway in June 2016, it was the beginning of the end of a…
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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 in the IMA’s collection. The American collection at the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields (IMA) is an encyclopedic group of brilliant objects that span US history from the Colonial…
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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 and botanical species from classical times through the onset of photography may be studied alongside striking contemporary photographs. Illustrations of animal, plant and mineral specimens are also available as well…
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