GSA Library Art and Design News

The Magazine

2012-02-03T12:00:00.001Z

GSA Archives and Collections have recently conserved and digitised an important 4 volumes of student work by Charles Rennie Mackintosh and his contemporaries, dating from their time at the School in the mid 1890s.
Known simply as 'The Magazine' these volumes continue to provide important source material for researchers, with individual volumes loaned to a number of major exhibitions in the UK and overseas. The dedicated website now allows these volumes to be searched and accessed online for the first time.

Body Pods

2012-01-12T15:07:00.000Z

Discover the strange and surprising human body in Body Pods, a series of 12 podcasts by artists and scientists, each one exploring a different part of your body.
The Ear is the first in the serie. Artists to follow include Francesca Beard, Amanda Boyle, Stacy Makishi, David Rosenberg, and Richard Thomas.

Luc Tuymans

2012-01-05T16:46:00.000Z

Luc Tuymans often uses the history of his country, Belgium, and that of his own family as a starting point in his work. His paintings are born out of a distrust of imagery in an image saturated world, and a belief that representation can only ever be partial and subjective. Drawing on images from film, television and photography, on subjects ranging from major historical events, such as the Holocaust, or the politics of the Belgian Congo, to something as inconsequential and banal as wallpaper patterns, he creates paintings that explore the inadequacy of collective memory. TateShots visited Tuymans in his home city of Antwerp.

Isaac Newton's Papers

2011-12-15T08:57:00.000Z

Isaac Newton’s own annotated copies of his works, notebooks and manuscripts are being made available online by Cambridge University Library and the University of Sussex. Researchers, students and the public can now zoom in to each page to explore texts like Principia Mathematica in incredible detail and make use of transcriptions to understand Newton’s mind – and handwriting. Several of the manuscripts in the collection contain the handwritten line ‘not fit to be printed’, scrawled by Thomas Pellet, a Fellow of the Royal Society, who went through Newton’s papers after his death to decide which ones should be published.

Voices of Art History

2011-12-14T09:59:00.000Z

The Association of Art Historians has launched its online oral history project. Voices in Art History explores the development of the discipline in Britain through a series of audio interviews with art historians. The recordings offer commentary on the changing nature of the arts and culture since the 1950s.

Locating London's Past

2011-12-12T11:55:00.000Z

Researchers have today unveiled a new interactive map that reveals London’s social history in unprecedented detail, enabling users to explore everything from the world’s first gay scene to eighteenth century riots. Locating London’s Past is a new website that lets users delve deep into the capital’s past. The website is the first to map information from a vast array of sources, covering:

· crime and punishment

· the distribution of wealth, poverty and occupations

· the ownership of consumer goods

· mortality

Living Books

2011-11-25T08:49:00.000Z

A series of 21 ‘living books’ has been launched online as part of a pioneering initiative designed to provide a bridge between the humanities and the sciences. The Living Books About Life series is written and produced by humanities scholars from universities across the world – from the UK and America to Poland and Australia – and has re-packaged and re-presented science-related research material to make it more accessible to a humanities audience. The books address a number of scientific topics whose unifying theme is life, such as air, agriculture, bioethics, cosmetic surgery, energy, neurology and human cloning.

Whistler Etchings - Catalogue Raisonne

2011-11-24T09:07:00.000Z

This project explores the creative processes of the American-born artist, James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903), as an etcher and printer. A major figure in 19th century printmaking, Whistler created over 490 etchings. The evolution of each etching from the copper plate through different states to the final print is described and fully illustrated. The catalogue includes many previously unknown etchings, plus fresh information on titles, dates, subjects and sitters, technique, and the 19th century art market.
The project is based on collaboration between three major institutions: the University of Glasgow (recipients of Whistler's estate), the Art Institute of Chicago and the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. It includes prints in public and important private collections.

GSA Video Archive

2011-11-22T11:55:00.000Z

The GSA Video Archive is now available to view online and includes 84 videos of public lectures and events organised by The Glasgow Urban Lab, Architecture Friday Lectures, Fine Art Friday Events, and Exhibitions.
You can now watch the entire series of Architecture Friday Lectures from 2010-11 and various Friday Event lectures dating from 2006-11 – including notable talks by architect Steven Holl, artist and kinetic sculptor Susumu Shingu, designer Ben Kelly, artist and GSA graduate Christine Borland, artist and GSA graduate Roddy Buchanan, Urban Lab lecturer Graeme Evans, artist Martha Rosler, and more!

University Museum Collections

2011-11-21T09:33:00.000Z

Scottish universities hold a high proportion of Scotland’s nationally important collections – more than 1.8 million items. The Revealing the Hidden Collections website gives information about all this material through almost 2000 detailed descriptions of collections and an increasing number of records of individual items and collections. All records are searchable hrough a single search maintained by the Culture Grid.

American Culture Archive

2011-11-16T12:37:00.000Z

To tie in with BBC Four’s All American season which will explore the cultural heritage of 20th century America, the BBC has made available online 15 full-length programmes on this theme from its archive. The titles, broadcast between 1965 and 2001, explore US art, technology, politics and society. They include examples from classic series such as Whicker’s World and Alistair Cooke’s America, interviews from Face to Face with Maya Angelou and Dr Martin Luther King, an Omnibus programme on Studs Terkel, and Alexis Korner’s series investigating American Blues, The Devil’s Music.

Science Explorer

2011-11-08T15:22:00.000Z

BBC Radio 4 has just launched Science Explorer, which brings together much its science programming previously broadcast on the air. At present the site includes broadcasts from the likes of cognitive psychologist Steve Pinker, theoretical physicist Jim Al-Khalili, physicist and astronomer Jocelyn Bell Burnell while topics explored include the legacies of Hippocrates, Da Vinci, Darwin and Freud, the evolution of the human brain, mind-body duality and much more. The thematic grouping bring together a broad range of sources and users can create their own playlists.

Kays Catalogues

2011-11-02T15:02:00.000Z

Kay & Co Ltd of Worcester sold clothes to the nation from 1920. The catalogue images in Kays Collection held by the University of Worcester represent the nation’s changing lifestyles and body image from 1920 to 1990. From the launch of the earliest ‘ready to wear’ clothing range in 1920, to the turn of the century in 2000, Kays’ catalogues demonstrate the growth of leisure time amongst the working classes, the increasing commercialisation of childhood and family life, the influence of ‘street style’ on the high street. They also provide a fascinating insight into the gender roles of the day. At the heart of the World of Kays website is a database of 1500 high quality copies of images from the catalogues.

Glasgow Dialectograms

2011-11-02T10:19:00.000Z

"Glasgow Dialectograms explore the use of illustration as record, information as art. Superficially a pastiche of scientific, anthropological and architectural illustrations, dialectograms comment upon contemporary city spaces, public, private and personal, through creating an extremely detailed schematic of a place that condenses and includes both subjective and objective information into a single piece. They show facts, thoughts and feelings. They use a deliberately loose and organic ‘anti-architectural’ drawing style to describe not just what it is there, but who uses it, what a particular space means to someone, and how relationships between people shape their environment. The term ‘Psycho-Geography’ applies, but put simply, they are made by talking to people, sharing ideas and processing them into visual forms – a diagram, a dialogue, a dialectic, but also a dialect of technical drawing – hence, Dialectogram."

Manifesta Workbook

2011-11-01T17:58:00.000Z

The Manifesta Workbook is a free, print-on-demand art mediation resource. It consists of a collection of non-linear chapters focused on art mediation in exhibition settings. Manifesta is the roving European biennial of contemporary art. It changes its location every two years.

Beatrice Coron and Papercraft

2011-11-01T17:55:00.000Z

New from TED.
With scissors and paper, artist Béatrice Coron creates intricate worlds, cities and countries, heavens and hells. Striding onstage in a glorious cape cut from Tyvek, she describes her creative process and the way her stories develop from snips and slices.

ECLAP: e-Library for Performing Arts

2011-10-28T14:50:00.000Z

ECLAP - the e-library for performing arts - is a European project and Best Practice Network that is bringing together the most relevant performing arts content (videos, photographs, texts, essays, etc.) from cultural institutions across Europe.

TateShots : Karla Black

2011-10-28T12:11:00.000Z

Karla Black’s unorthodox and innovative approach to sculpture has led to a nomination for the Turner Prize 2011. Using established art materials alongside more unusual items such as nail varnish, cellophane and bath salts she creates work whose fragility seems to echo her fascination with pyschological vulnerability. In this interview she talks about what sculpture means to her, and its power to evoke a physical response.

Research Data Management

2011-10-28T11:38:00.000Z

An online training course to help disseminate good practice in research data management developed at the University of Edinburgh is now free to use by PhD students, early career researchers and digital data users at all UK universities. The non-credit, free online course has interactive units focused on key concepts of data management including video clips of senior academics talking about data management challenges. There are also practical exercises in handling data in four software packages widely used by researchers in different fields, which learners can download and work through at their own pace.

EUScreen

2011-10-27T15:24:00.000Z

EUscreen, a new online portal that launches today, provides access to thousands of TV clips from across Europe. It is a groundbreaking collaboration with 36 partners from 19 countries, including access to thousands of items of archive TV footage dating from the early 1900s until today. As well as providing new and exciting insights into Europe’s TV heritage, it also offers news footage and commentary on key events in history, including an interview with Martin Luther King from 1962 about racial discrimination in the US and his most recent arrest, and news footage from 1963 investigating whether the British are for or against joining the European Economic Community.

Royal Society Journals Archive

2011-10-27T12:24:00.000Z

The Royal Society has today announced that its world-famous historical journal archive – which includes the first ever peer-reviewed scientific journal – has been made permanently free to access online.
Around 60,000 historical scientific papers are accessible via a fully searchable online archive, with papers published more than 70 years ago now becoming freely available. The Royal Society is the world’s oldest scientific publisher, with the first edition of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society appearing in 1665. Treasures in the archive include Isaac Newton’s first published scientific paper, geological work by a young Charles Darwin.

Scottish Institute for Enterprise Workshops

2011-10-27T08:22:00.000Z

On Wednesday 9th November 2011, Scottish Institute for Enterprise are running an Enterprise Day for all University students in Glasgow and the West of Scotland.

PROGRAMME - WEDNESDAY 9TH NOVEMBER 2011, GILBERT SCOTT BUILDING, GLASGOW UNIVERSITY CAMPUS, 2PM - 5.30PM

“Sparking your idea” – 2.00pm – 3.00pm
Eileen Scott, Enterprise Support Executive, The University of Glasgow
A dynamic session on how ideas are generated and future trends spotted.

“Taking a Technology Product to Market” - 2.00pm -3.00pm
Brian Williamson, Director, Jumpstart UK
A very practical session based around real life case studies highlighting what is involved in developing and taking a technology product to market.

“Developing an on-line presence” – 3.00pm -4.00pm
Mark Evans, Group Managing Director, Kommando
This SIE Masterclass offers a practical look at how you build a consistent online presence with a good website.

“What makes a good idea a good business idea?” – 3.15pm -4.15pm
Liz Walsh, SIE Regional Business Advisor (Glasgow and West).
This session will show you what you need to do next as you begin to think about commercialising your bright idea.

“Speeding to market” - 4.30pm -5.30pm
Karine Burns – Business Development Manager, Innovation Centres, Scotland
This Masterclass will cover all the practical steps you need to take to get your product or service to market.

“The Practicalities of Setting up a New Venture – 4.30 pm -5.30pm
Paula Skinner and Rachel Thomson, Harper Macleod LLP
This session will guide you through the steps involved in setting up a new venture, the options available to you and the legal responsibilities you need to comply with.

If you would like to attend, please visit www.sie.ac.uk and register your interest.

Tom Cross

2011-10-25T12:26:00.000Z

A collection of images by painter Tom Cross has been digitised and made available online via the Visual Arts Data Service (VADS). Tom Cross produced many paintings and drawings inspired by Cornwall's landscapes and seascapes. Prior to his time at Falmouth, Tom lived and worked all around the country and abroad, and was influenced by a range of popular styles including French Modernism and Russian Constructivism, making him a key British twentieth century artist. University College Falmouth acquired the Tom Cross Archive in 2010. The archive provides a personal account of the life and work of the artist and former Principal through sketchbooks, diary entries, news-cuttings and exhibition catalogues.

Vogue Archive Online - Trial Access

2011-10-20T08:25:00.001Z

The Library currently has trial access to the newly launched Vogue Archive Online. This resource provides a searchable archive of American Vogue, from the very first issue in 1892 right up to the current issue, reproduced in high-resolution. The indexing enables you to search for images by garment type, designer or brand. The Vogue Archive preserves the work of the world's greatest fashion designers, stylists and photographers and is a unique record of American and international fashion, culture and society from the dawn of the modern era to the present day.

To access this resource on-campus:

Go to http://search.proquest.com/
Under ‘Trial Databases’ click on Vogue Archive

In order to assess the usefulness of this resource for our students, researchers and staff, the Library needs your feedback. Please forward any thoughts you have on this resource to Academic Liaison Librarian Duncan Chappell at d.chappell@gsa.ac.uk. This trial will last for 1 month, until mid-November.

Paris Review Interviews

2011-10-17T13:30:00.000Z

Celebrated literary magazine The Paris Review has made its archives of interviews with authors and writers freely available, going back to the 1960s. Featured writers include Franzen, Houellebecq, Ballard, Marquez, Ionesco, Kundera and Roth.