MassArt Library Blog

LYNDA.COM

gvlr — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:00:41 +0000

Access over 42,000 online

video tutorials instantly.

Digital Photography
Web Design
Web Development
Audio
Motion Graphics
Adobe
Photoshop
Microsoft Office
Illustrator
Apple
Creative Inspirations
3D Graphics
Dreamweaver
ActionScript
Final Cut Pro
and many more!

Don’t Forget! To access Lynda.com you must use your MassArt Username and Password!!!!

19th & 20th Century Artists Tools @ MassArt Library

gvlr — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:59:09 +0000

MassArt

Morton R Godine Library

Presents
19th & 20th century

Artists’ Materials
Sept 24, 2009 – October 22, 2009

From the Collection of Robert Baart

In Memory of

Aubrey Baer

JeopARTy

gregwallace37 — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 20:37:33 +0000

JeopARTy, Monday, September 21 & 28, 7pm:

New Venue for Sept. 28th: Smith Hall Lounge, 1st floor!

An interactive game show that asks if acts of artistic appropriation are fair or not.

AP photo by Manny Garcia and Obama Hope poster by Shepard Fairey, 2008.

Come join us for a fun evening in which panels composed to students and faculty as well as the studio audience get to vote on whether different cases of appropriation (such as Shepard Fairey’s use of an AP photo for his Obama poster) are ethical or not. There will be few clear right or wrong answers. Just a lot of interesting debate.

There will be two stand-alone sessions. The first will take place on Monday, September 21 at 7 PM. The second will take place on Monday, September 28 at 7 PM. The moderator is Greg Wallace, MassArt librarian. The event is sponsored by Project Discovery: The Studio Foundation Experience.

Art Rogers, Greeting card photo and Jeff Koons, String of Puppies, 1988

Some useful online resources:

US Copyright Office

http://www.copyright.gov/

Fair Use Project at Stanford University

http://fairuse.stanford.edu/

National Coalition Against Censorship – Art Law Library

http://www.ncac.org/art-law/index.cfm

Harvard Law School (Art Law Overview)

http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/martin/art_law/image_rights.htm

University of Texas (Copyright Crash Course)

http://www.utsystem.edu/OGC/IntellectualProperty/cprtindx.htm#top

The Arts and Humanities in Public Life: Copyright Protection and Appropriation Art by William M. Landes.

http://culturalpolicy.uchicago.edu/conf1999/landes.html

New York Foundation for the Arts (Essay on Copyright and Fair Use)

http://www.nyfa.org/archive_detail_q.asp?type=6&qid=173&fid=1&year=2004&s=Winter

BPL Picture File at MassArt Library

gvlr — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:07:23 +0000

Come use our pictures

The Boston Public Library has donated to the the MassArt library a portion of its extensive picture file. The picture file is located on the 12th floor near the computer lab. It is housed in two green file cabinets. The images are organized loosely by subject. Please feel free to browse the files. You will see pictures of: bears, whales, trees, flowers, and more. Feel free to take the pictures out for your creative projects.

War & Art: A Tribute to The Monuments Men

gvlr — Tue, 05 May 2009 19:27:48 +0000

At its commencement ceremony on May 22, MassArt will award an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree to the Monuments Men. This group of approximately 345 men and women from 13 nations participated in the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives Program within the Civil Affairs and Military Government Sections of the Allied Armies during World War II. They rescued art and other cultural property from the war’s destruction and the Nazi’s systematic looting.

Manet Painting recovered from Merkers Mine in Germany (from the website of the Monument Men Foundation For the Preservation of Art)

In tribute to the Monuments Men, the Godine Library is exhibiting a range of materials: books, posters, playing cards, videos– on several themes. We hope to recount the Monuments Men’s challenges and heroics more than 60 years ago as well as explore similar challenges we face today, many concrete and dangerous, others philosophical and political. As we can, we’ll be posting to this blog, presenting additional information reflecting the exhibition themes:

the Monuments Men
continuing work to return art stolen from Jewish families and others during the Holocaust
recent destruction and looting of cultural material in Iraq and Afganistan, and efforts to mitigate those, including a new initiative of the U.S. Armed Services
scholarly debate about the nature of cultural property and ethical obligations regarding its ownership and protection.

The Monuments Men

The Monuments Men respected the cultures of others. They risked their lives to preserve that culture. Two Monuments Men were killed in action protecting treasures. As a group the Monuments Men changed the course of history by returning more than 5 million cultural items after the war. Help us preserve the legacy of the Monuments Men and put it to use in protecting cultural treasures from future armed conflict. (from the website of the Monument Men Foundation For the Preservation of Art)

(from the website of the Monument Men Foundation For the Preservation of Art)

Monuments Man Sgt. Kenneth Lindsay gazing at the ancient Egyptian Bust of Queen Nefertiti. On view as part of the Art & War exhibit is a plaster cast of this bust as well as a selection of books about the ethics of cultural appropriation. Does the Nefertiti bust reside in Berlin and the Parthenon marbles reside in London for reasons of preservation and public access or colonialism?

The following images from the 1946 exhibition catalog in the Godine’ Library’s collection, Paintings Looted from Holland give a sense of the work of the Monuments Men and the enormous value of the artworks they recovered.

Room Before the MFA&A Took Over with Leftover Nazi Propaganda Material

Koenigsplatz, Munich, With Art Collecting Point in Center

Room in Art Collecting Point after MFA & A Took Over

Token Load for Holland. 26 Masterpieces Taken on Board American Plane

Dutch Convoy Starting for Holland

From the book Paintings looted from Holland : returned through the efforts of the United States Armed Forces. A collection to be exhibited in … Ann Arbor, Michigan, Baltimore, Maryland, Buffalo, New York [etc.] … 1946

Hendrick Avercamp, Skating

Gerard Ter Borch, Jacob de Graeff

Pieter Claesz, Still Life

Arent A. Gelder, Ernst van Beveren

Pieter Codde, Couple in Interior

Gerret Heda, Showpiece.

Jan Davidsz. De Heem, Vivant Oranje

Thomas De Keyser, A Lady

Thomas De Keyser, A Young Tourist

Nicolaes Maes, “Juno” or the Eavesdropper

Aert Van Der Neer, Mills at Night

Jacobus S. Mancadan, Classical Landscape

Jacob Van Ruisdael, Beach of Egmond

Jacob Van Ruisdael, View of Haarlem

For more information about the Monuments Men, including video interviews and clips from the film Rape of Europa, please visit http://www.monumentsmenfoundation.org/.

Protecting Cultural Property in Iraq

In the early days of the Iraq war, apparently in favor of protecting Iraq’s oil ministry, the United States abandoned that nation’s national library and museum to fire and looting respectively. Since then we’ve all learned more about Iraq’s cultural treasures, what’s at stake, and what we can do.

Archeologist and MassArt Professor of Art History John Russell has long been outspoken about the need to protect Iraq’s cultural treasures. He even put his life on the line. For nine months at the start of the war, Russell served as an advisor to the Ministry of Culture in Baghdad, where he helped renovate museums and protect archeological sites from looting. You can read about his service in Andrew Lawler’s Boston Globe article “The Treasure Hunter,” and read John’s own thoughts in his essay “Why Should We Care” that appeared in the winter 2003 issue of Art Journal.

Professor John Russell

More recently Russell been working on two projects with the U.S. Committee of the Blue Shield, a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting cultural property during wartime. First, the USCBS successfully lobbied the U.S. Senate to ratify (this past September) the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict. Second, Russell and the USCBS have been delivering cultural-property-protection training to U.S. military personnel. You can read more about these projects in the USCBS newsletter. One aspect of the training is the design and distribution of playing cards modeled on the “Most Wanted” playing cards. Instead of bearing the images of bad guys, these cards have images of art needing protection. The Godine Library exhibition includes a deck and other educational materials that Russell helped develop. You’ll probably notice that every card says, “ROE first.” ROE signifies the military Rules Of Engagement.

Websites of Interest:

U.S. Blue Shield Committee

Antiquities Collectors Blog

Society for Historical Archaeology

FBI Art Theft Program

Interpol

Materials available for your perusal within the Godine Library exhibit Art & War:

Monographs

The looting of the Iraq Museum, Baghdad : the lost treasures of ancient Mesopotamia / edited by Milbry Polk and Angela M.H. Schuster. 2005

Antiquities under siege : cultural heritage protection after the Iraq war / edited by Lawrence Rothfield. 2008

The rape of Europa : the fate of Europe’s treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War / Lynn H. Nicholas. 1995

Afghanistan : hidden treasures from the National Museum, Kabul / edited by Fredrik Hiebert and Pierre Cambon. 2008

Art under a dictatorship / Lehmann-Haupt, Hellmut. 1973

The lost museum : the Nazi conspiracy to steal the world’s greatest works of art / Hector Feliciano.1997

The victor weeps : Afghanistan / Fazal Sheikh.1998

Rescuing Da Vinci : Hitler and the Nazis stole Europe’s great art : America and her allies recovered it / Robert M. Edsel ; forewords by Lynn H. Nicholas and Edmund P. Pillsbury. 2006

Paintings looted from Holland : returned through the efforts of the United States Armed Forces. A collection to be exhibited in … Ann Arbor, Michigan, Baltimore, Maryland, Buffalo, New York [etc.] … 1946

Loot! : the heritage of plunder / Russell Chamberlin.1983

The plundered past [by] Karl E. Meyer.1973

Klimt’s women / edited by Tobias G. Natter and Gerbert Frodl ; texts by Neda Bei … [et al.]. 2000

Articles

Specters of Provenance: National Loans, the Königsplatz, and Maria Eichhorn’s “Politics of Restitutions”

Alexander Alberro, Grey Room Winter 2005, No. 18: 64–81.

Films

The Rape of Europa [videorecording] / Actual Films ; in association with Agon Arts & Entertainment presents ; written, produced and directed by Richard Berge, Nicole Newnham and Bonni Cohen ; co-producer, Robert M. Edsel ; an Actual Films production, in association with Agon Arts & Entertainmentand Oregon Public Broadcasting. 2008

The Train [videorecording] / a United Artists release ; [Les Productions Artistes associés]. MGM Home Entertainment;screen story and screenplay by Franklin Coen and Frank Davis ; produced by Jules Bricken ; directed by John Frankenheimer. 1951. In August 1944 the Allied army is closing in on Paris. German commander and art fanatic Colonel Von Waldheim steals a vast collection of rare French paintings and loads them onto a train bound for Berlin. When a beloved French patriot is murdered while trying to sabotage Von Waldheim’s scheme, Labiche, a stalwart member of the Resistance, vows to stop the train at any cost.

LIBRARY SURVEY

gvlr — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 20:36:03 +0000

→Library Home Page←

TAKE SURVEY HERE

Thank You

Haute Fashion a la Mass Art

gvlr — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 20:56:39 +0000

Spring 2009 Collection : Haute Fashion a la Mass Art

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

We are featuring exquisite pieces from our special collection and archive departments.

Please come into the library to browse this exhibit.

Featured works by Sonia Delaunay and others.

Favorite Fashion Websites

Happy Holidays from The Morton R. Godine Library

gvlr — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 21:16:09 +0000

It has been a fine 2008 semester here at the library and the holiday break is upon us faster than we thought. With the winter solstice taking place only days ago we plunged right into a cold Boston winter. The library will be closed for Winter break from Dec 24th to Jan 2nd. We will be open again on January 5th. The library will be open with limited hours from 12-5pm from January 5th to January 20th. We are not open weekends during this period.

The library will be closed Wednesday January 14th.

Thanks so much for coming to see us this 2008; we look forward to seeing you in the new year!!!!!

Remember Have a Blue Christmas

Banned Books @ Mass Art

gvlr — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 20:47:11 +0000

2008 Banned Book week is here at Mass Art

Please come check out some of the worlds best books that have been confronted with censorship; classics like Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax to Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer.

Take The Banned Book Quiz

More Banned Books

YouTube Banned Books

A Few Extras from Mr. Warhol

caitlin — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:28:56 +0000

This summer we were given a copy of Peter Gidal’s Andy Warhol: Films and Paintings and it was put into processing as a normal acquisition, but upon closer inspection we discovered a few surprises within the book.

This unassuming paperback is signed by Andy Warhol in marker on the title page. While that is wonderful enough to make a book special the autograph seeker also documented the book signing. Tucked into the pages were three color machine prints including what we can only guess is the artist’s car parked outside and two photographs of Andy Warhol himself. The photographs are stamped JAN 81, which puts the signing at about 10 years after the book was published and six years before Warhol’s death in February of 1987.