Voices in the Visual Arts
Posted: 20 May 2008 04:11 AM CDT
Launched in 2004, Viva is an oral history research project by Camberwell College of Arts, one of the constituent colleges of University of the Arts London. The website includes extracts from life history recordings with former Camberwell alumni, as well as people associated with the college, and includes their reflections on living and working in the arts and creative industries.
Current interviewees include: designer Aziz Cami; painter Juliet Kindersley; publisher Peter Kindersley; designer Alex Maranzano; and ceramicist Sara Radstone.
The website also includes the Design History Society oral history project, which includes interviews with historians, academics, and writers who have shaped the field in the last 30 years. The 'context' section of the website includes a select bibliography of available texts in the areas of oral history and narrative research.
Link: http://www.vivavoices.org
Access: Free
Spode Pottery Posted: 20 May 2008 04:08 AM CDT
The website of the New York Public Library has provided this digitised version of `Spode and his successors: a history of the pottery: Stoke-on-Trent 1765-1865' a book written by Arthur Hayden, which was originally published in 1925. The forty-six images, many in colour, illustrate the various objects produced by the Staffordshire potteries of Spode and W. T. Copeland. Objects illustrated include vases, plates and dishes, as well as figures, including an earthenware bust of Josiah Spode the second. Pages from old pattern books are also included in this volume.
Link: http://tinyurl.com/6mady4
Access: Free
Peter Blake Video Posted: 20 May 2008 04:05 AM CDT
Tate Online's TateShots website has provided this MP4 five-minute video by the pop artist, Peter Blake. Published to accompany a retrospective exhibition of his work, which was held at Tate Liverpool from 29 June to 23 September 2007, Blake discusses the evolution of his style from his early days at the Royal College of Art, to his latest work. The video can be played on a range of media player software including iTunes and QuickTime. A transcript in RTF is also available.
Link: http://www.tate.org.uk/tateshots/episode.jsp?item=11307
Access: Free
Victorian Music Covers Posted: 20 May 2008 04:03 AM CDT This is a searchable database of digital images deposited with the Visual Arts Data Service (VADS) by the University of Reading, of their Spellman Collection of Victorian Music Covers. Printed mainly using lithographic techniques, most of the items are colour-illustrated and many of them are examples of outstanding music illustrators of the period, including John Brandard and Alfred Concanen. Each record is accompanied by a detailed catalogue entry.
Link: http://www.vads.ac.uk/collections/SCVMC.html
Access: Free
Journal of Design and Manufactures Posted: 20 May 2008 04:01 AM CDT
Part of the University of Glasgow library's website, this 'Book of the Month' online exhibition features volume one of `The Journal of Design and Manufactures'. The library holds four of the six volumes published by Chapman and Hall between 1849 and 1852 under the editorship of Henry Cole and Richard Redgrave, with the aim of improving British standards of design and manufactures. This online exhibition includes a number of colour images of the actual samples of textiles and wallpapers bound into the volume, as well as examples of the steel-engraved illustrations and samples in situ on the page.
Link: http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/exhibns/month/aug2001.html
Access: Free
2 comments:
Hi Malar, I found my way to your blog from your comment! Nice to meet a fellow Singapore library professional in the blogosphere :)
Arts and design is something that I have a personal interest in (as a hobby), but not very knowledgeable in the library sense (e.g. collections, trainings, classification, sources). I've looking forward to learning more from your blog. Subscribed!
Hi Ivan,
Thank you for the comments. I must say, your Rambling Librarian, is very interesting. Please feel free to ask about anything pertaining to the arts, and I will be most happy to answer.
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