Ayres 205
898-6878
Fall & Spring Semester Hours: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM Mon.- Fri.
Curator: Erin Herzog
Collections
The Ira Latour Visual Resources Center (VRC) houses the slide collection of the Art and Art History Department. The VRC also holds a reference collection of non-circulating art history books, illustrated books, catalogues raisonee, livres d'artiste, current periodicals, photographs, and non-print media such as CD-ROMs, videos, and DVDs.
A catalog of the book and film collection is available online. Materials MAY NOT be checked out for student use.
Images
The center provides images to be used for research assignments, course study pages, and lectures. Four computers are available for student use along with scanning and copying stations.
The VRC digital image collection is available both through Portfolio and ARTstor.
All VRC materials must be used for educational purposes only.
Online Resources
- ARTstor
ARTstor is a subscription database containing more than one million images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences.
- BibliOdyssey
BibiOdyssey is a blog containing eclectic historic science and art images from rare books and prints.
- California State University IMAGE Project (World Images)
The CSU IMAGE Project includes images for the art history survey and historical images from a wide variety of fields, including political and cultural history, anthropology, biology, medicine and technology.
- Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
FAMSF ImageBase contains images from the permanent collections of the Legion of Honor and de Young Museums.
- Library of Congress flickr photostream
The Library of Congress photostream contains historic photograph collections.
- New York Public Library Digital Collections
The New York Public Library offers audio, video, webcasts, images, prints, photographs, poetry and fiction.
- UbuWeb: Film and Video
UbuWeb is a large web-based educational resource for avant-garde material providing access to out of print materials, sound art and video.
- Hammer Museum: Watch and Listen
The Hammer Museum offers streaming video of their exhibitions, readings, lectures and forums.
- Charlie Rose: Art and Design
Charlie Rose interview artists, architects and designers.
- VernissageTV
VernissageTV takes you to opening receptions (vernissages) of exhibitions and events. Archived footage of events is indexed by artists name.
- Oxford Art Online
Oxford Art Online is a subscription service including Grove Art, Timelines of World Art and Thematic Guides including essays and biographies.
- Metropolitan Museum of Art Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
The TOAH includes images of works of art, descriptions of work and related thematic essays in an interactive timeline and map.
- The Medieval Bestiary
The Medieval Bestiary is an interactive site with links to digital Medieval manuscripts available online.
- Ira Latour
A collection of photographs and writings by Ira H. Latour.