The Image Collection has added content in the following areas:

Ancient Art: Roman Painting

Northern Renaissance Art: Art from the Burgundian Court of Charles the Bold

Renaissance Art: Paintings and Drawings by Leonardo da Vinci

Baroque Art: Dutch cityscapes of the Golden Age

African Art: Costumes and Ritual Objects of the Zulu and Maasai Cultures

Modern Art: Work by James Ensor, Arthur Dove, Peter Blake, the Italian Futurists and the German artist group known as Die Brücke

Photography: The work of Robert Mapplethorpe and Ana Mendieta

For more information about the Image Collection, or for assistance in locating images, contact the Image Collection staff.  

Image: Leonardo da Vinci. Proportional Study of a Man in the Manner of Vitruvius. 1492. Gallerie dellAccademia di Venezia

     

 

The DePaul University Libraries are proud to announce Artstor and the Avery Index to Architecture (AIA).  AIA makes it possible to find articles from over 700 architecture and interior design journals in one easy search.  If you find an article in this database that's not full text, click on "find full text" to see if an article is available elsewhere or request that a copy be sent to you via ILLiad, our interlibrary loan service for articles.

We are also excited to offer ARtsor, a digital library of more than one million images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and teaching.  As the name indicates, the database can be used to locate images of paintings, sculpture and the like.  But it's also a great resource for students looking for primary source material including historical photographs, propaganda posters, advertisements and maps. 

You can search for either database by name using the library's search box on the middle and left-hand side of the library's homepage.  Both are also listed on the Art and Art History Research Guide.

We hope you enjoy our new resources and have a great autumn quarter! 

  
*Unknown. What Are You Doing to Prevent This? 1937. Distributed outside of Spain. Museum of Modern Art. ARTstor <http://www.artstor.org/index.shtml>.

**Unknown. Head of a King. 1600s. Nigeria, Benin, Edo. Cleveland Museum of Art. ARTstor <http://www.artstor.org/index.shtml>.

  

The Image Collection staff has finally finished a long-term project to make browsing easier and more accurate. Both the "Browse by Category" and "Browse by Creator/Artist" links on the left side of the Image Collection page now lead to pages with unique, authoritative and simpler entries. Previously, there were often multiple entries for an artist due to alternate names, misspellings or misattributions. Similarly, the Category page had multiple entries for some categories, as well as categories no longer used. These are now corrected, and browsing should be much simpler and effective.

Additionally, content has been added in the following areas:

American Art: Paintings by Kenny Scharf and Julian Schnabel

African Art: Works of the Hausa people and scenes from the ceremonies of the Yako culture of Southeastern Nigeria.

Northern Renaissance: Works by Robert Campin and Rogier van der Weyden

Italian Renaissance: Paintings by Venetian painters Titian, Paolo Veronese and Jacopo Tintoretto

Baroque Art: Highlights from a recent exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum

Islamic Art: Works in glass owned by the Corning Museum of Glass

Architecture: Drawings and plans by Frank Lloyd Wright

For more information about the Image Collection, or for assistance in locating images, contact the Image Collection staff. 

Image: Scharf, Kenny. "The Fun's Inside." 1983. Private Collection.

Summer brings new and exciting things: warm weather, trips to the beach, and most importantly new color copiers/scanners at the Lincoln Park and Loop campus libraries and a study room at the Loop library! 

The student copiers deduct $0.40 a page for color copies from your Demon Express account. Bring a flash drive to save your black and white and color scans for free.  Scanning is only available for flat sheets of paper inserted into the copier's document feeder.  For this reason, books cannot be scanned directly from the glass; you must first make photocopies and scan them through the feeder.  If you need to scan a high resolution image or photograph, the Campus Copy Center is a good, local option.    

After you're done using the color copier, head on over to the new study room at the Loop Library (located to the immediate left of the Bloomberg workstation and Career Information Collection).  Enjoy your new quiet study area.

We hope you like these new additions and keep checking the blog for additional services and collection updates.  Enjoy your summer and don't hesistate to ask whenever you have questions.  We're here to help!  

 

As the academic year winds down, you might be looking forward to getting back to your recreational reading list; or maybe you’ve been looking for a few good books to take along on summer travels. If summer reading is on your agenda, you'll find plenty of fiction on the shelves at DePaul Libraries to keep you busy!

Like many university libraries, DePaul doesn't have a separate fiction section, and you're not likely to find pop fiction like the Harry Potter or Twilight series. But you will find new books by contemporary literary writers such as Louise Erdrich, T.C. Boyle, Salman Rushdie, Toni Morrison, Michael Chabon and Joyce Carol Oates. DePaul also has a great selection of contemporary international fiction; a few recent favorites include After Dark by Haruki Murakami, Confessions of Noa Weber by Gayil Har'even and Say You’re One of Them by Uwem Akpan. And, of course, summer is a great time to revisit literary classics like The Grapes of Wrath, Pride and Prejudice or Invisible Man.

All fiction is listed in the library catalog; here's a quick, although certainly not comprehensive, way to search: use the Advanced Search screen of the library catalog to search for "fiction" as a Subject Word (“short stories” also works). You'll get a lot of results, but they'll be sorted by date making it easier to browse for recent fiction. The Lincoln Park campus library's new books display on the first floor also features new fiction, poetry, and non-fiction.

And if DePaul doesn't have the books on your summer reading list, don't forget to check the I-share catalog to place a request for another library to send the book to DePaul for pickup. The Chicago Public Libraries, or your local public library, are also great places to find recreational reading.

Happy reading this summer!

image credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/josephrobertson/2265297242/

The Image Collection has recently added a large number of images related to Buddhist art and architecture. The images depict works of art as well as temples, monasteries and cave complexes from India, China, Japan and Southeast Asian countries from the Second Century B.C.E. to the Nineteenth Century.

Additionally, content has been added in the following areas:

Architecture: Architectural Dictionary - an illustrated list of architectural terms.

Photography: Works by Mike Disfarmer and Sophie Ristelhueber.

American Art: Paintings by The Eight (commonly referred to as the Ashcan School)

European Art: Paintings by Louis Leopold Boilly, Paul Klee and Edvard Munch.

Medieval/Renaissance Art: Byzantine art and architecture

Ancient Art:Punic Art from Tunisia

For more information about the Image Collection, or for assistance in locating images, contact the Image Collection staff.

Image: Buddha Amitabha. c. 750-850 C.E. Candi Borobudur. Java, Indonesia.

We'd like to highlight just a few of the hundreds of new books that the library acquires each month. And why not start with controversy? Another country's, that is. Chantal Bouchard, a linguist at McGill University, tackles the loaded question of "Parisian French" versus so-called "French-Canadian patois" and the issues that have accompanied it for almost two centuries in Obsessed with Language: A Sociolinguistic History of Quebec (LPC 447.9714 B7524O).

Not ready to head that far north? How about Wisconsin? Chicago-Lake Geneva: A 100 Year Road Trip (LPC 917 C5329) retraces the route of a 1905 "photographic automobile map" complete with period advertisements and hand-drawn directional arrows. Thanks to the Chicago Map Society and the Newberry Library, we can see the original photographs paired with contemporary photos of the same spot; thanks to modern speed limits, it won't take you the recommended six hours to arrive.

Road trips mean summer, and summer means baseball—but not for everyone. In Stolen Bases: Why American Girls Don’t Play Baseball (LPC 796.357082 R5812S), University of Nevada-Reno professor of political science Jennifer Ring explores the intersection of gender, colonialism, and big business in our national pastime.

If you want to take a swing at any of our new books, look for the New Titles link in the catalog or check out the displays at the Lincoln Park or Loop Libraries.

The Image Collection has recently added quite a few images of Chicago from the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. These can easily be located by doing a search on the Advanced Search Page with "Chicago" in the Place field and "Historical Photographs" in the Category field.

Additionally, we have added content in the following areas:

African Art: The Art and Architecture of Ancient Nubia, Senegalese Glass Painting

Renaissance/Baroque Art: The Paintings of Jan Vermeer

Asian Art: The Painting and Sculpture of Tibet, Japanese Temples and Sculpture of the Nara Period

Russian Art: Paintings by Kazimir Malevich

American Architecture: Prairie-Style Homes, including those by Frank Lloyd Wright and Walter Burley Griffin

For more information about the Image Collection, or for assistance in locating images, contact the Image Collection staff. 

Naxos Music Library is a streaming audio database that lets you hear a wide variety of classical music along with some jazz, world, and other genres of music.

To find and listen to music, use the Keyword Search or browse by Composer or Genre; the Advanced Search feature also lets you search by musical instrument, time period, and country, as well as combine different search terms.

Once you've found a CD, select individual tracks or listen to the entire album using the control panel to play your selection. Naxos Music Library uses Windows Media Player for streaming (Mac compatible with a Flip4Mac or Silverlight download). As you listen, you can keep browsing for more music or read the "Album Information" and CD liner notes to learn more about the composer, performer, and genre.

Naxos Music Library currently offers 29,946 CDs and 426,581 tracks with new music added daily! Not sure where to start listening? Try one of these CDs or tracks...

• Chicago violinist Rachel Barton Pine's American Virtuosa
• Puccini opera arias
• Brazilian Samba
• The Chicago Symphony Orchestra performing Pictures at an Exhibition
• The soundtrack from Brideshead Revisited

For more world music via streaming audio, also check out the Smithsonian Folkways Recording Archive.

The Image Collection has recently scanned (or rescanned) images relating to the theory and practice of art. These images include color wheels, illustrations of color theory and optical effects, perspective diagrams and examples of modeling. We have also added illustrations of theoretical texts by the Bauhaus artist and teacher Johannes Itten and plates illustrating "The Interaction of Color" by American artist Josef Albers. These images can be most easily found by searching "General Art Theory" in the Category box of the Advanced Search Page. 

 

Additionally, we have added content and higher-quality images in the following categories:

Ancient Art: Aegean Pottery, Painting and Sculpture from Pompeii and Herculaneum

African Art: Works from the Baule and Sao cultures.

Medieval Art: Manuscript Illuminations produced by the Limbourg Brothers.

Renaissance/Baroque Art: Paintings by Titian

Japanese Art: Prints by Utamaro

American Art: Paintings by Tom Wesselman

Photography: Works by Sebastiao Salgado

For more information about the Image Collection, or for assistance in locating images, contact the Image Collection staff.