Department of Art History, The University of Chicago
Emergency scans are any images needed in less than two weeks. For the Fall 2010 quarter, emergency scanning hours are from 2pm-4pm, Monday through Friday. These are the hours during which students and staff are guaranteed to be available for rush orders. Please keep in mind that emergency scans are limited to ten per requester, per week. They will be delivered via an emailed link to Webshare.
If you have any questions, feel free to contact the VRC.
…back upstairs, and down the hall! Please come visit us in Suite 257 of the Cochrane-Woods Art Center.
The beginning of fall quarter is quickly approaching. Need help using ARTstor? Finding what you need in LUNA? Creating presentations? As a reminder, VRC staff are available for individual or group training sessions. We also provide in-class image searching orientation for students in the humanities. If you are interested in scheduling a session, please contact us.
Got too much paper? VRC orders can now be placed from the comfort of your own home or office, without printing. Please try the online digitization request form and contact us with any questions.
Humanities Computing staff members have developed an application for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad called Chapbook. This “app” provides free access to all news, events, blogs, and podcasts currently available from the Division of the Humanities website (including our very own All Things Visual, as seen above). The program allows you to search the campus directory and view campus maps, as well as access articles from Tableau, the Humanities Division magazine.
To download the application from iTunes, click here.
The second floor of the Art History Department, including the VRC, is undergoing extensive renovation this summer. The first stages are well underway. Faculty offices and the “old” VRC have been emptied in advance of construction and asbestos abatement.
This means that after a several weeks of packing and preparation, the VRC has temporarily relocated to the first floor of Cochrane-Woods Art Center, Room 156. We will be open for the duration of construction (except for days when the building will be closed for abatement). Our summer hours are: Monday – Thursday, 8:30-5; Friday, 8:30-2. Please come see us!
As finals week approaches, take a quick break from the stress by watching this clever video for the song “70 Million” by Hold Your Horses. How many works of art can you name?
The Women Writers Project is providing free public access* to Women Writers Online, a database of early modern texts written by women, during Women’s History month. While the database does not contain images, you may find some interesting commentary on art and artists, for example:
excerpts from pages 89 and 111 of Margaret (Lucas) Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, The World’s Olio, 1655 (pages 89, 111)
Or it were better see a Gentleman hew down trees, or dig in the bowels of the earth amongst minerals, than painting, or pencilling: for that shews manly strength, command and force over the hardiest of natures works, so as it be voluntary and not slavish. It is more manly to be a Souldier . . .
“There be some that condemn the Art of Painting in Women, others that defend it; for, say they, as Nature hath made one World, so Art another, and that Art is become the Mistris of Nature; neither is it against Nature to help the Defects. Besides, those that find out new Arts, are esteemed so, that they become as Petty Gods, whether they become Advantageous to Man, or no . . .”
* WWO is always available to the University of Chicago community via library subscription.
New from the British Library is the Digitised Manuscripts Blog by Juan Garcés, project manager of the Greek Manuscripts Digitisation Project. Funded by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, the project will digitize 250 Greek manuscripts of the British Library’s 1,000 Greek codices and 3,000 Greek papyri by summer 2010.
We are now providing Intelligentsia coffee in the VRC! Stop by and have a cup. We brew a fresh batch every morning around 9am, and are happy to brew more in the afternoons by request.
As always, the suggested donation is: 25 cents per cup of coffee, tea, or hot chocolate and 25 cents per cookie or treat.
Help us be green – please bring your own mug!
The Visual Resources Center’s website, All Things Visual, is now mobile-friendly! Try viewing our site from an iPhone or iPod Touch and you’ll find it’s easy to read and navigate.