New anatomy visualization resource – Visible Body

A new anatomy visualization tool Visible Body is now available to current staff and students of Cambridge University.

Cambridge University members can access Visible Body on or off campus at this link.

Visible Body is also available from the Cambridge University Libraries A-Z and in the list of resources for Clinical Medicine.

On the Welcome page you will be asked for your email and to create a password. Please proceed to enter your @cam.ac.uk email address and create a password. Use these to access Visible Body in future if prompted.

Please be warned that the first time you use Visible Body on your device, the site may be a bit slow to load. This is because the resource contains visualization tools and scripts that take a few moments to load. You will see a message in the bottom right of your browser advising you not to reload the page.

Visible Body is an interactive 3D visualization and learning tool of human anatomy. 

For help using Visible Body please consult the Clinical Medicine team.

ECM Advent Calendar Window 5 : Christmas cards on the Art & Architecture ePortal

Guest post by Suzanne Edgar, ebooks@cambridge

Alden Finney Brooks (1840–1932)
The Christmas Card (Child with Christmas Card) (1881)

The Art & Architecture ePortal (A&AePortal) is the place to look for Christmas card design inspiration! You can browse the platform for festive cards and seasonal imagery with image keyword searches.

 

On the platform you will find several Christmas cards from American printer, lithographer and publisher Louis Prang, who is sometimes known as the “father of the American Christmas card.” 

In 1880, Prang launched an annual Christmas card design competition which promised public exhibition and publication as its prize. The competition drew many “feeble and sentimental entries” (!) rendered in crayon, but also the work of professionals and artists such as Elihu Vedder.

Here is Thomas Wilmer Dewing’s 1884 entry, Gloria, which depicts four angels playing harps.

Thomas Wilmer Dewing (1851–1938)
Gloria, 1884

Gloria did not win that year, though the work was exhibited in Boston and was described as “the most lovely thing in the entire collection.”

The information, images and quotes in this blogpost are taken from the chapter “Art for a Decorative Age” in  American watercolor in the age of Homer and Sargent by Kathleen A. Foster, which is available on the A&AePortal, along with much more art and architectural history scholarship.

New e-resource : Art & Architecture Archive

Collections 1 & 2 of the ProQuest Art & Architecture Archive are now available for members of the University of Cambridge to access.

A full-text archive of magazines comprising key research material in the fields of art and architecture, dating from the late-nineteenth century to the twenty-first. Subjects covered include fine art, decorative arts, architecture, interior design, industrial design, and photography. The issues are presented as full-color page images; detailed article-level indexing permits quick, efficient searching and navigation of this material.

Art & Architecture Archive is a major research resource comprising the digitized backfiles of many of the foremost art and architecture magazines of the twentieth century. Offering unprecedented access to the archives of key consumer and trade publications, it is a unique collection of the essential primary sources for studying the history of these subjects. The magazines cover the spectrum of sub-disciplines, from fine and applied arts, through to interior design, industrial design, and landscape gardening. Issues are scanned from cover to cover in high resolution color and presented in page image format with fully searchable text.^*

The high-quality reproduction and easy discoverability of the original content will allow scholars, students, and practitioners of fine art to draw inspiration from the many artworks displayed in visual arts titles such as Apollo and Art Monthly. They may also study features and reviews revealing the contemporary reception of specific works.

Trade magazines, widely recognized as indispensable sources for art and architecture, are also strongly represented. Research materials and technical guidance are available to those working in areas including graphic design, construction, and product design, in publications such as Print, Architectural Review, and Graphis, respectively.

In combination, the consumer magazines and the trade publications comprise an invaluable reference source, as a historical record of the art and architecture industries. Through reviews, advertisements, exhibition listings, and awards, users may trace the careers of major artists and architects, as well as the history of the commercialization and marketing of art.

The Art & Architecture Archive is also available to access via the Databases A-Z.

Text from the ProQuest platform.

Art & Architecture Archive : access until 17th September 2020

University of Cambridge members now have access to ProQuest’s Art & Architecture Archive until 17th September 2020.

Please send your feedback about any of this eresource using the online form.

Art & Architecture Archive is a major research resource comprising the digitized backfiles of many of the foremost art and architecture magazines of the twentieth century. Offering unprecedented access to the archives of key consumer and trade publications, it is a unique collection of the essential primary sources for studying the history of these subjects. The magazines cover the spectrum of sub-disciplines, from fine and applied arts, through to interior design, industrial design, and landscape gardening. Issues are scanned from cover to cover in high resolution color and presented in page image format with fully searchable text.

Trade magazines, widely recognized as indispensable sources for art and architecture, are also strongly represented. Research materials and technical guidance are available to those working in areas including graphic design, construction, and product design, in publications such as Print, Architectural Review, and Graphis, respectively.

In combination, the consumer magazines and the trade publications comprise an invaluable reference source, as a historical record of the art and architecture industries. Through reviews, advertisements, exhibition listings, and awards, users may trace the careers of major artists and architects, as well as the history of the commercialization and marketing of art.

Art & Architecture Archive also serves wider research in the humanities and social sciences, with sociologists and historians, for example, able to locate primary sources attesting to the relationship between art movements and social trends.

The ability to cross-search these magazine backfiles within a single database creates an unrivalled opportunity for researchers to locate a comprehensive body of primary source material relating to particular individuals, topics and movements, across a variety of publications and document types. A single search may return industry news items, interviews with major artists, and features about technological developments, as well as photographs / illustrations, architectural plans, statistics, and reviews.

Also available to access via the Databases A-Z.

Photo by Jeffrey Czum from Pexels

Photo by Jeffrey Czum from Pexels

Text taken from the ProQuest platform

ARTMargins

New on ejournals@cambridge A-Z : ARTMargins.

From the MIT website for the journal:

“ARTMargins publishes scholarly articles and essays about contemporary art, media, architecture, and critical theory. ARTMargins studies art practices and visual culture in the emerging global margins, from North Africa and the Middle East to the Americas, Eastern and Western Europe, Asia and Australasia. The journal seeks a forum for scholars, theoreticians, and critics from a variety of disciplines who are interested in postmodernism and post-colonialism, and their critiques; art and politics in transitional countries and regions; post-socialism and neo-liberalism; and the problem of global art and global art history and its methodologies.”

Now available to the University of Cambridge electronically from volume 1 (2012) to present.

Access ARTMargins via the ejournals@cambridge A-Z or at this link.

 

Image credit: Gratisography

JSTOR Arts & Science XIII Archive Collection

New on ejournals@cambridge A-Z: JSTOR Arts & Science XIII Archive Collection

“late byzantine cross-in-square” by fusion-of-horizons (on Flickr)

From the JSTOR website:

“The Arts & Sciences XIII Collection adds an increasingly international set of journals in disciplines including Language & Literature, Art & Art History, Philosophy, and Religion. Represented subdisciplines include European church history and the literature of the American West.

The collection offers a global scope. European countries including Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands each contribute several titles, with an additional title published in South Korea, the Journal of Korean Religions.

The Arts & Sciences XIII Collection also complements JSTOR content in History, Music, and Classical Studies. The collection will contain at least 125 titles by completion.”

Notable titles include:

• Journal of Indian Philosophy (1970-)
• Gregorianum (1920-)
• Impressions (1976-)
• Philosophische Rundschau (1953-)

A full title list for the package can be found on the JSTOR website.

Access the various titles from JSTOR Arts & Science XIII Archive Collection via the ejournals@cambridge A-Z. Records for the titles in this archive will be available in LibrarySearch in the new year. Access to the articles will be available in LibrarySearch+ next week.

JSTOR Arts & Science XI Archive Collection

New on ejournals@cambridge A-Z: JSTOR Arts & Science XI Archive Collection

‘Language of the birds’ by David Yu (on Flikr)

From the JSTOR website:

“Arts & Sciences XI will expand JSTOR’s coverage in the humanities, with scholarship in core fields of Language & Literature, History, and Art & Art History.

Comprising a minimum of 125 titles, the collection will  include important journals in Classical Studies, Architecture & Architectural History, and Music.

Other discipline clusters will include Bibliography, Library Science, Religion, Philosophy, Archaeology, Performing Arts, Film Studies, and Linguistics.

Interdisciplinary titles will broaden the scope of the collection to include area studies such as American studies, Asian studies, Jewish studies, and African American studies.”

Notable titles include:

• The American Scholar
• Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts
• Studies in Pre-Columbian Art and Archaeology
• Journal of Moravian History
• Asia Major

A full title list for the package can be found on the JSTOR website.

Access the various titles from JSTOR Arts & Science XI Archive Collection via the ejournals@cambridge A-Z. Records for the titles in this archive will be available in LibrarySearch in the new year. Access to the articles will be available in LibrarySearch+ next week.

Grey Room

New on ejournals@cambridge A-Z : GREY ROOM.

From the MIT website for the journal:

“Grey Room brings together scholarly and theoretical articles from the fields of architecture, art, media, and politics to forge a cross-disciplinary discourse uniquely relevant to contemporary concerns.

“Publishing some of the most interesting and original work within these disciplines, Grey Room has positioned itself at the forefront of the most current aesthetic and critical debates. Featuring original articles, translations, interviews, dossiers, and academic exchanges, Grey Room‘s emphasis on aesthetic practice and historical and theoretical discourse appeals to a wide range of readers, including architects, artists, scholars, students, and critics.”

Now available to the University of Cambridge electronically from issue 1 (2000) to present.

Access Grey Room via the ejournals@cambridge A-Z or at this link.

Image credit: ‘The Three Towers’ by mhx on Flickr – https://flic.kr/p/rMqbwW

Renaissance studies

New on ejournals@cambridge A-Z : backfile: RENAISSANCE STUDIES

From the Wiley Online website for the journal:

“Renaissance Studies is a multi-disciplinary journal which publishes articles and editions of documents on all aspects of Renaissance history and culture. The articles range over the history, art, architecture, religion, literature, and languages of Europe during the period. Editions of important documents appear in their original languages, with introduction, textual apparatus, notes and (occasionally) translations of the documents and sources into English. The journal also contains a substantial book reviews section and often illustrated reviews of major exhibitions worldwide. “

Backfile now available to the University of Cambridge electronically – in addition to the current content already available – from volume 1 (1987) to volume 10 (1996).

Access Renaissance Studies via the ejournals@cambridge A-Z or at this link.

Image credit: Wikipedia  – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Renaissance

V&A Collection

Victoria & Albert Museum’s Collections database allows you to perform searches of over 293,000 images in objects in the V&A collection.

 The database includes over 1.1 million catalogue records as well as the image collection. Make sure you opt for the ‘Only records with images’ option before performing your search if you do not want to see results without images.

 

The images are also grouped by collection. For instance, you can view illustrations and photographs of toys, children’s stories, clothes, and more in the ‘Collection: Museum of Childhood’.

You can also perform searches on all the tags of an image, which include materials, techniques, place of origin, names, galleries, and category (includes porcelain, ceramics, textiles, etc.).

Each time the homepage is visited the selection of images changes which offers a great way to explore random elements of the collection.