From 16th January 2012 the following new databases will be available for all students and staff. They will be listed in the A-Z of databases on the University Library website and in the University Library subject guides for Art & Design.
WGSN: The leading online fashion trend-analysis and research service providing creative and business intelligence for the apparel, style, design and retail industries.
Vogue Archive: Contains the entire run of Vogue magazine (US edition) from 1892 to the present day, reproduced in high-resolution colour page images. More than 400,000 pages are included. Vogue is a unique record of international popular culture that extends beyond fashion. The Vogue Archive is an essential primary source for the study of fashion, gender and modern social history.
eLexicons: eLexicons provide access to unique learning resources for the visual arts. With biographies, work examples, bibliographies and glossaries, the eLexicons provide the complete foundation for study in higher education, covering graphic design, typography, illustration, lettering, art and craft. Support material includes lecture guides, indexes and reading lists.
Bridgeman Education: Gives access to over 380,000 images from museums, galleries, private collections and contemporary artists all copyright cleared for educational use. Bridgeman Education gives you access to the visual culture of every civilization and every period from Prehistory to the present day across continents and civilisations.
Author: hhoward2
uk.untitled: blog for new artists and writers is launched
uk.untitled is a new initiative set up by art historians Laura Di Maio (current PhD candidate University of Edinburgh) and Ruth Burgon (MSc University of Edinburgh). Their aim is to create a platform that can provide a first rung for young artists and art historians (students or recent graduates) in the United Kingdom, an initial place for them to get their work seen and their voices heard in the British art community.
uk.untitled hope that by beginning this project at the University of Edinburgh, in the year of its merger with the Edinburgh College of Art, they will promote the value of fruitful collaboration between artists and art historians, which is central to their thinking.
They will be beginning this project as a blog (which will include frequent reviews of independent shows, interviews with young artists, online exhibitions, platforms for debate, artistic event promotions, and monthly showcases of selected talent), but hope that it will develop in the future to allow them collectively to curate exhibitions of their contributors’ work, hold events, run debates and workshops and so on.
uk.untitled is project based around people and will not work without your input!
uk.untitled are looking for artists and writers who are interested in getting involved now. Email them with some info about yourself and a sample of your work: writers please submit a short (500 word) sample of your writing on art; artists please submit 5 photos of your work.
Additionally, if you are running an event or exhibition that you think might interest uk.untitled, please let them know and they will post a blog about it.
There will be a selection process as the organisers will be looking for a high standard in both the artists and writers they support.
EMAIL: uk.untitled@gmail.com
BLOG: www.uk-untitled.blogspot.com
Fluxus Reader available as free download
The difficult to obtain Fluxus Reader is now available as a digital copy, for download
here.
Download times are swift over the net, but the complete book runs to 36MB.
To make it easy for those who only wish one chapter, a single PDF for each chapter for use as stand-alone texts has been created.
The book is an open access edition, configured for full search and
accessible for copy and paste for scholars or students who wish to quote from the book.
All details and pages are identical with the print
edition. The PDF files are set to print out on a full-page format for
easy reading.
In making the digital edition of the Fluxus Reader available, the author
Ken Friedman has granted full permission for educational use in any format or medium.
Please feel free to share this information, to distribute the URL, or to
copy the book. Any other library that wishes to add the Fluxus Reader to its digital resources collection is free to do so.
Quote of the Week
Always we hope someone else has the answer, some other place will be better, some other time it will all turn out. This is it.
No-one else has the answer, no other place will be better, and it has already turned out.
(Lao Tse)
Quote of the week
Personally, I always imagined heaven as a library.
Jorge Luis Borges.
The sketchbook as journal
ECA library has recently acquired a fantastic new book about artists’ sketchbooks:
An illustrated life : drawing inspiration from the private sketchbooks of artists, illustrators and designers, by Danny Gregory.
As Danny Gregory describes on his blog “this book led me to fulfill my dream of gathering the work of all the artists I admire most, people like Robert Crumb and Chris Ware and James Jean and many others, and then sitting down for a chat about my favorite subject, recording one’s life with drawings in a book. It was an amazing experience and I like to think the book reflects it.”
The library has several other similar books on the theme of sketchbooks as journals:
Drawing from Life: The Journal as Art, by Jennifer New.
Sketchbooks: The Hidden Art of Designers, Illustrators & Creatives, by Richard Brereton.
Inspiring Writing in Art and Design: Taking a Line for a Write, by Pat Francis.
We hope these will inspire you!
Quote of the Week
Quote of the Week
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
(Albert Einstein)
Connecting lines: artists talking about drawing
Access to the recordings is available free online, and requires Quicktime/WMP.
Quote of the Week
It is provided in the essence of things that from any fruition of success, no matter what, shall come forth something to make a greater struggle necessary.
(Walt Whitman, Song of the Open Road in Leaves of Grass)
