VISUAL RESOURCES

AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DOCUMENTATION

Published By: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
Frequency: 4 issues per year
Print ISSN: 0197-3762
Online ISSN: 1477-2809

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Vol. 23, Nos. 1-2 (March-June 2007)

Visual Documentation in Freud's Vienna, edited by Mary Bergstein
  • Bettina Hagen, The Cast Collection at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna
  • Astrid Mahler (translated by Elborg Forster), A World of Forms from Nature: New Impulses for the Aesthetic of the Jugendstil
  • Louis Rose, Daumier in Vienna: Ernst Kris, E.H. Gombrich, and the Politics of Caricature
  • Cheryl A. Logan, Cases and Prototypes: Constitutionalism and Photographic Portrayal of the Person in Freud's Vienna
  • Elfriede Haslauer (translated by John Winbigler), Egypt in Nineteenth-century Vienna: A Phantasm?
  • Diane O'Donoghue, Mapping the Unconscious: Freud's "Topographic" Constructions
  • Michael Molnar, From Image to Evidence: At the Historic Corner Window. 17.6.1897
  • Forbes Morlock, The Very Picture of a Primal Scene: Une leçon clinique à la Salpêtrière

Vol. 22, No. 2 (June 2006)

Before and After the Wall: German Photography in Discourse and Practice, edited by Miriam Paeslack
  • Ulrich Rüter, Photography in Germany Today: A Sketch of Its Institutional Landscape
  • Arne Reimer, Beyond the "Becher School": Recent Tendencies in German Photography of the Post-Reunification Era
  • Anette Hüsch, Real Fiction: Peter Bialobrzeski's Search for Convincing Images
  • Maren Polte, Photography: Irrelevant or Indispensable? Pictorial Science from the Perspective of Photography
  • Cristina Cuevas-Wolf, Nature, Technique and Perception: Twentieth-century Afterimages and Modes of Scientific Representation

Vol. 22, No. 1 (March 2006)

Nineteenth-century Popular Arts, edited by Ann Bermingham
  • Romita Ray, The Beast in a Box: Playing with Empire in Early Nineteenth-century Britain
  • Daniel Harkett, Illusions of Power: The Diorama and the Royalist Press in Restoration Paris
  • Michael Leja, Art and Class in the Era of Barnum
  • Alison Fraunhar, Picturing the Nation: Marquillas Cigarerras Cubanas and the Plantation
  • Vanessa R. Schwartz, Afterward: The Promise and Perils of Visual Culture's Big Tent

Vol. 21, No. 3 (September 2005)

The Period Room Debate and the Making of America's Public Art Museum, edited by Sally Anne Duncan
  • Thomas Andrew Denenberg, Picture Houses and Period Rooms: Wallace Nutting, the Museum, and the Market
  • Kristina Wilson, Style and Lifestyle in the Machine Age: The Modernist Period Rooms of "The Architect and the Industrial Arts"
  • Curt Germundson, Alexander Dorner's Atmosphere Room: The Museum as Experience
  • Elizabeth Kennedy, Home on the Range: Frederic Remington's Recreated Studio at the Whitney Gallery of Western Art

Vol. 21, No. 2 (June 2005)

Photojournalism, Mass Media and the Politics of Spectacle, edited by Amy Lyford and Carol Payne
  • Ulrich Keller, Producing/Controlling Spectacle: Presidential Speech in Media Reportage
  • Stan Honda: An Interview by Amy Lyford & Carol Payne
  • Terri Weissman, The Spectacle of Trauma: 9/11 in the Museum
  • Randa Shaath: An Interview by Carol Payne & Amy Lyford
  • Jane Blocker, A Cemetery of Images: Meditations on the Burial of Photographs
  • Mark Danner, An Excerpt from "The Secret Road to Abu Ghraib" With an Introduction by Carol Payne & Amy Lyford

Vol. 21, No. 1 (March 2005)

The Destruction of Our Cultural Heritage: Examples of Visual Documentation from Iraq, Afghanistan and Croatia
  • Vibiana Bowerman and Nensi Brailo, Protecting Our Shared Cultural Heritage: An Overview of Protocols and Projects
  • Wlodek Witek, The Eyes and Ears of an Explorer: Database for Audiovisual Archives of a Norwegian Linguist from his Journeys to Afghanistan and South Asia, 1923-1975
  • Linda Groom, An Interlude in Iraq: The Photographs and Dairies of Australian Photographer Frank Hurley in the Catalogues of the National Library of Australia
  • Jeffrey B. Spurr, Glimpses of an Eclipsed Heritage: Photography of Afghanistan in the Collections of the Fine Arts Library at Harvard
  • Francis Deblauwe, Antiquities and the Iraq War: Information, the Web and Pictures
  • Clemens Reichel, Beyond Cataloguing Losses: the Iraq Museum Database Project at the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago

Vol. 20, Nos. 2-3 (June-September 2004)

Copying in Medieval Art, edited by Sarah Blick, Rita Tekippe, and Vibeke Olson
  • Sarah Blick, Exceptions to Krautheimer's Theory of Copying
  • Rita W. Tekippe, Copying Power: Emulation, Appropriation, and Borrowing for Royal Political Purposes
  • Vibeke Olson, The Significance of Sameness: An Overview of Standardization and Imitation in Medieval Art
  • Cheryl Gohdes Goggin, Copying Manuscript Illuminations: The Trees of Vices and Virtues
  • Yao-Fen You, Krautheimer and the Marketplace: VERnacular Copies of Antwerp Compound Altarpieces in the Rhineland
  • Janet Snyder, "A Good Head for Business": Evidence of Standardization in Medieval Stone Sculpture
  • Marguerite Keane, Louis IX, Louis X, Louis of Navarre: Family Ties and Political Identity in the Hours of Jeanne de Navarre

Vol. 19, No. 4 (December 2003)

Describing Depictions vs. Depicting Descriptions, edited by Jan L. de Jong
  • Jan L. de Jong, Word Processing in the Italian Renaissance: Action and Reaction with Pen and Paintbrush
  • Liana De Girolami Cheney, Giorgio Vasari's Astraea: A Symbol of Justice
  • Lyckle de Vries, Written Paintings: Real and Imaginary Works of Art in De Lairesse's Schilderboek
  • Kathryn N. Benzel, Modern In(ter)ventions: Reading the Visual

Vol. 19, No. 1 (March 2003)

Paul van Moorsel and the Documentation of the Ancient Near East, edited by Colum Hourihane
  • Mat Immerzeel, Introduction to Paul van Moorsel
  • Hans Brandhorst, The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliotheek MS 76 F 5: A Psalter Fragment?
  • Claudine A. Chavannes-Mazel, Popular Belief and the Image of the Beardless Christ
  • Mat Immerzeel, A Day at the Sarcophagus Workshop
  • Karel C. Innemée, Veneration of Portraits, Icons, and the Relics in Christian Egypt
  • Gertrud J.M. van Loon, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in Paradise in Coptic Wall Painting

Vol. 18, No. 2 (June 2002)

Following the Archival Turn: Photography, the Museum, and the Archive, edited by Cheryl Simon
  • Carol Payne and Jeffrey Thomas, Aboriginal Interventions into the Photographic Archives: A Dialogue between Carol Payne and Jeffrey Thomas
  • Vid Ingelevics, Culture (Camera) Commerce: The Gift Shop Exhibition at the Winnipeg Art Gallery
  • Christine Y. Hahn, Exhibition as Archive: Beaumont Newhall, Photography 1839-1937, and the Museum of Modern Art
  • Miranda J. Wallace, August Sander's Photographic Archive: Fables of the Reconstruction
  • Lyndell Brown and Charles Green, Robert Smithson's Gost in 1920s Hamburg: Reading Aby Warburg's Mnemosyne Atlas as a Non-Site

Vol. 17, No. 4 (2001)

From Albums to the Academy: Postcards and Art History, edited by Jordana Mendelson
  • David Prochaska, Thinking Postcards
  • Allan Life, Picture Postcards by M.V. Dhurandhar: Scenes and Types of India-with a Difference
  • Ellen Handy, Postcard Sublime: William Henry Jackson's Western Landscapes
  • Lynda Klitch, Little Women: The Female Nude in the Golden Age of Picture Postcards
  • Craig Eliason, Manifestos by Mail: Postcards in the Theo van Doesburg Correspondence
  • Peter Chametzky, The Post History of Willi Baumeister's Anti-Nazi Postcards

Vol. 17, No. 1 (2001)

Illustrations as Visual Resources, edited by William B. MacGregor and Louis Marchesano
  • Evelyn Lincoln, Models for Science and Craft: Isabella Parasole's Botanical and Lace Illustrations
  • William B. MacGregor, Illustration and its Afterlife: The Visual Uses of Sébastien Le Clerc's Pratique de la géométrie
  • Laura H. Hollengreen, Illustrating Architecture
  • Kent Minturn, Digitally-Enhanced Evidence: MoMA's Reconfiguration of Namuth's Pollock
  • James Elkins, On Some Useless Images

Vol. 16, No. 3 (2000)

Lost Works of Art, edited by Deborah Mauskopf Deliyannis
  • Carol Neuman de Vegvar, The Architecture of Women's Monasticism in Archaeology and in Early Insular Texts
  • Frank Futral, Text as Image: Charles Willson Peale's "Lost" Staircase Self-Portrait
  • Liana De Girolami Cheney, Giorgio Vasari's Visual Interpretation of Ancient Lost Paintings
  • Elizabeth E. Guffey, Reconstructing the Limits of Propaganda: Pierre-Paul Prud'hon and the Art of Napoleon's Remarriage
  • Carrie Lambert, Documentary Dialectics: Performance Lost and Found

Vol. 16, No. 2 (2000)

Plagiarism in Art (and Art History), edited by Mary Vaccaro
  • Gunnar Swanson, Where Can I Steal a Clever Title for this Article?
  • Anne L. Schroder, Reversals of Power: Artistic Property, Counterfeiture, and the 1793 French Copyright Act
  • Stephen Petersen, Innovation and the Rhetoric of Plagiarism: The Klein/Takis Rivalry
  • Judy Sund, The Preke Speaks: Kahlúa's Co-option of West Mexican Burial Effigies
  • Richard T. Pfohl, The Key to the (Digital) Salon: Copyright and the Control of Creative Expression

Vol. 15, No. 3 (1999)

The Early History of the Phaidon Press, 1923-1967, edited by Valerie Holman
  • Nigel Spivey, A Short History of the Phaidon Press, 1923-1998
  • Ernst Fischer, The Phaidon Press in Vienna, 1923-1938
  • Valerie Holman, Art Books Against the Odds, Phaidon in England, 1938-1950
  • Elly Miller, Ludwig Goldscheider: a Memoir
  • Harvey Miller, Phaidon and the Business of Art Book Publishing, 1923-1967
  • Anthony Hamber, Communicating Colour: Advances in Reprographic Technology, 1840-1967
  • Clive James, On the Library Coffee-Table
  • HIStorical Catalogue, 1923-1972, Originally compiled by Innocenz Grafe for the Phaidon Jubilee Catalogue in 1973

Vol. 15, No. 2 (1999)

The Culture of the Copy
  • Patricia Mainardi, Copies, Variations, Replicas: Nineteenth-Century Studio Practice
  • Richard A. Sundt, Architectural Simile, Copy or Original Creation? The Church of St. Brigid in Brisbane and Its Relationship to Gothic Architecture in Southern France
  • William V. Ganis, The Eternal Lady: An Analysis of Andy Warhol's Jackie Series vis-à-vis Friedrich Nietzsche's Eternal Return of the Same
  • Robert A. Baron, From Romance to Ritual: Mona Lisa Images for the Modern World
  • Jonathan Applefield (and ELIZ), Demythologizing the Copy: An Interview with ELIZ
  • Donna M. Meeks, The Allegorical Imperative (Or Why Paint When the Copy Store is Open Twenty-four/Seven?
  • Karen M. White, The Copy
  • Debbie Hall, The Original and the Reproduction: Art in the Age of Digital Technology

Vol. 14, No. 3 (1999)

Art History Goes to the Magic Kingdom, edited by Robert Neuman
  • Robert Neuman, "Now Mickey Mouse Enters Art's Temple": Walt Disney at the Intersection of Art and Entertainment
  • Garry Apgar, The Meaning of Mickey Mouse
  • Robin Allan, Walt Disney and Europe
  • Barbara Coleman, Trough the Year We'll All be Friends: The "Mickey Mouse Club," Consumerism, and the Cultural Consensus
  • Ethel S. Goodstein, Southern Outposts in the Magic Kingdom: The South as a Regional Sub-text in Disney's American Spectacle
  • David T. Doris, "It's the Truth, It's Actual...": Kodak Picture Spots at Walt Disney World
  • Cher Krause Knight, Adam and Eve...and Goofy: Walt Disney World as the Garden of Eden

Vol. 14, No. 4 (1999)

Cost and Use of Digital Images on University Campuses: Lessons from the Museum Educational Site Licensing Project, edited by Howard Besser, Rosalie Lack, and Robert C. Yamashita
  • Howard Besser and Robert Yamashita, Issues of Network Access to Visual Information: The UC Berkeley Mellon Study of the Museum Educational Site Licensing Project
  • Robert C. Yamashita, Outlining the Social and Economic Cost Center Models for the Distribution of Digital and Analog Images
  • Joanne Miller, The Costs of Creating Digital Images and Metadata by Museums
  • Rosalie Lack, The Cost of Deploying Digital Images by Universities
  • Joanne Miller, The Cost of Distributing Analog Images by University Slide Libraries
  • Rosalie Lack, The Patterns of Slide Library Circulation: A Study
  • Lena Stebley, Faculty Perspective on Teaching with Digital Images: Results of Focus Groups with Art Faculty
  • Howard Besser, The MESL Experience versus Slide Libraries: Comparison and Analysis

Vol. 13, Nos. 3-4 (1998)

The Princeton Index of Christian Art, edited by Colum Hourihane
  • Isa Ragusa, Observations on the History of the Index: In Two Parts
  • Dirk Jacob Jansen, Princeton Index of Christian Art: The Utrecht Copy
  • Kirk Alexander, The Visualization of Art History: The role of Databases in Visual Thinking
  • Lindy Grant, Time and the Conways: The Beginnings of Art History and the Collecting of Photographs in Britain
  • Jochen Becker, Librarians, Life and Ladders: Carl Spitzweg and Others
  • Todor Petev, Typology and Format in the Netherlandish Blockbook Canticum canticorum, ca. 1465
  • Christina Maranci, Armenian Architecture as Aryan Architecture: The Role of Indo-European Studies in the Theories of Josef Strygowski
  • Natalia Teteriatnikov, The 'Gift Giving' Image: The Case of the Adoration of the Magi
  • Johann-Christian Klamt, Artist and Patron: The Self-Portrait of Adam Kraft on the Sakramentshaus of St. Lorenz in Nuremberg

Vol. 12, Nos. 3-4 (1997)

Copyright and Fair Use: The Great Image Debate, edited by Robert A. Baron
  • Karen A. Akiyama, Rights and Responsibilities in the Digital Age
  • David Bearman and Jennifer Trant, Museums and Intellectual Property: Rethinking Rights Management for a Digital World
  • Amalyah Keshet, Fair Use, Fair Trade, and Museum Image Licensing
  • Allan Kohl, Prospects for a Public Domain Art Image: Resources in an Era of Digital Technologies
  • Christine L. Sundt, A Visual Resources Advocacy Statement
  • Maryly Snow, The Pedagogical Consequences of Photomechanical Reproduction in the Visual Histories: From Copy Photography to Digital Mnemonics
  • Karlene M. McLaren, Copyright: Fair Use or Foul Play
  • Stephen E. Weil, Fair Use/Museum Use: How Close is the Overlap?
  • Barbara Hoffman, Fair Use of Digital Art Images and Academia: A View from the Trenches of the Conference on Fair Use (CONFU)
  • Virginia M.G. Hall, Fair Use and Digital Image Archives: A Report on the National Information Infrastructure Conference on Fair Use
  • Caron L. Carnahan, The Visual Surrogate as Intellectual Property: The Clinton Administration's "White Paper" and its Implications for Visual Resources Collections
  • Barbara lang Rottenberg and Rina Elster Pantalony, Moral Rights and Exhibition Rights: A Canadian Museum's Perspective
  • Linda Bien, Canadian Visual Resources and Canadian Copyright
  • Maryly Snow: REVIEW-Copyright, Public Policy, and the Scholarly Community, edited by Michael Matthews and Patricia Brennan

Vol. 11, Nos. 3-4 (1996)

Art Information Task Force - Categories for the Description of Works of Art, edited by Murtha Baca and Patricia Harpring
  • Mary Case, Document for Dialogue: Categories for the Description of Works of Art
  • Suzanne Folds McCullagh, Nuances of Art Information
  • David Bearman, Data Relationships in the Documentation of Cultural Objects
  • Gregory Tschann, Categories in Context: Issues Regarding the AITF Categories for the Description of Works of Art
  • J. Dustin Wees, Categories for the Description of Works of Art and Visual Resources Applications
  • Brendan Cassidy, Iconography in Theory and Practice
  • 1994 Annual Meeting o the College Art Association (CAA), College Art Association Board-Sponsored Session: "Data ex Machina: How the Art Information Task Force is Paving the Way for Research Across Data Highways"
  • Chart of Categories
  • Categories for the Description of Works of Art: Definitions
  • Bibliography of Controlled Vocabulary Sources

Vol. 11, No. 1 (1995)

Images in Libraries, Museums, and Archives: Description and Intellectual Access - Papers from the Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries (PASCL) Summer Seminar, 1993, edited by Amy M. McColl
  • Georgia B. Barnhill, Pictorial Histories of the United States
  • Katherine Martinez, Imaging the Past: Historians, Visual Images and the Contested Definition of History
  • Marcy Flynn and Helena Zinkham, The MARC Format and Electronic Reference Images: Experiences from the Library od Congress Prints and Photographs Division
  • Michael Joseph, Information Technology and Access to Visual Images in Printed Books
  • Jackie M. Dooley, Processing and Cataloging of Archival Photograph Collections
  • William H. Helfand, The Search for Ephemera Images

Vol. 10, no. 3 (1994)

Festschrift for the Art and Architecture Thesaurus, edited by Alfred Willis
  • Toni Petersen, Retrofitting the Thesaurus: New Models for Old Vocabularies
  • Lina Miraglia, Piranesi's Vasi, candelabri Reinterpreted
  • Holley R. Lange, John Gravdahl, and Heidi Leech, The Physical Characteristics of Poster Art: Seeking an Appropriate List of Descriptors
  • Richard Pearce-Moses, Threading the Needle: Helping Patrons Find their Way in a Photographic Archives Haystack
  • James M. Turner, Indexing "Ordinary" Pictures for Storage and Retrieval
  • Betsey Buckheit, Between Two Vocabularies: Image Indexer as Middleman
  • Janice Woo, Indexing: At Play in the Fields of Postmodernism
  • David Bearman, Thesaurally Mediated Retrieval

Vol. 10, No. 1 (1994)

Issues in Electronic Imaging, edited by Christine L. Sundt
  • Benjamin R. Kessler, Electronic Images in Visual Resources Collections: Some Strategic Questions
  • Michael Ester, Digital Images in the Context of Visual Collections and Scholarship
  • Deirdre C. Stam, Pondering Pixeled Pictures: Research Directions in the Digital Imaging of Art Objects
  • Victoria Wyatt and Ged McLean, Imaging Databases in Research and Teaching: Global Perspectives and New Research Technologies
  • William Weinstein, Designing an Image Database: A Holistic Approach
  • Jim Wallace, Project Chapman: The Direct Delivery of Smithsonian Photographic Images Via the Internet

Vol. 8, No. 1 (1991)

ICONCLASS Retrieval: Report on the ICONCLASS Workshop, June 26-28, 1989, by Hans Brandhorst and Peter van Huisstede
  • Section 1. Functional Requirements for an ICONCLASS Retrieval System
  • Section 2. Implications for Using ICONCLASS in an Automated Retrieval System
  • Section 3. The AHIP Prototype
  • Section 4. The Maintenance and Development of ICONCLASS
  • Epilogue: Workshop Results and Some Recent ICONCLASS Developments
  • Appendix 1: ICONCLASS Questionnaire
  • Projects and Respondents
  • The Questionnaire
  • Appendix 2: Glossary
  • Description of Characteristic Functions of the ICONCLASS Retrieval System

Vol. 7, No. 4 (1991)

Electronic Visual Imaging in the Museum, edited by Alan B. Newman, Deirdre C. Stam, and Christine L. Sundt
  • Howard Besser, User Interfaces for Museums
  • Kent Lydecker, Observations on Museum Use of Electronic Imaging: Today & Tomorrow
  • Alan B. Newman, Electronic Imaging Systems for Museums
  • Michael Ester, Image Quality and Viewer Perception
  • Paul Kahn and Bernard J. Haan, Video in Hypermedia: The Design of InterVideo
  • Judi Moline, Linking Information to Objects: A Hypertext Prototype for Numismatists
  • Ben Davis, Infra-thin Multimedia
  • Kathleen S. Wilson, The Interactive Video Research and Development Project of the Museum Education Consortium
  • Jane Stone, J. Denbigh Starkey, Ray S. Babcock, Laurie Reinhart, and Xian Ling Wu, Three-Dimensional Computer Modeling for Museum Applications
  • Marilyn Schmitt, James Druzik, Andrew Eskind, Russell Kirsch, Paul Kahn, Discussion: Potentials and Pitfalls

Vol. 7, Nos. 2-3 (1990)

Photography and Art History
  • Editorial: From Panopticon to Kaleidoscope: The Art History Photograph Collection in Transition
  • Anthony Hamber, The Use of Photography by Nineteenth-Century Art Historians
  • Joseph Romano, Connoisseurship and Photography: The Methodology of Mojmir Frinta
  • Friedrich Kestel (translated by Judith Supp), Walter Hege (1893-1955): "Race Art Photography" and/or "Master of Photography"?
  • Ralph Lieberman, Thoughts of an Art Historian on the Relationship of His Two Disciplines
  • Jeanne Marty and Susan Wester, Documentation of Roman Architecture: Special Projects of the Getty Center
  • Brent Maddox, Bunched Images Betetting Ideas
  • Thomas Weston Fels, Photography and Art History: Symposium Report

Vol. 6, No. 4 (1990)

On Professionalism, edited by Rebecca Miller Hoort
  • Christine L. Sundt, Professionalism and Professional Status: Personal Reflections
  • Carla Conrad Freeman, Visual Media in Education: An Informal History
  • Astrid R. Otey, A History of the Visual Resources Association
  • Carla Conrad Freeman, Visual Collections as Information Centers
  • A Portfolio of Scenes from Visual Collections
  • Benjamin R. Kessler, Professional Qualifications: Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?
  • Linda McRae, Upgrading Professional Status: Florida as a Case Study
  • Nancy Shelby Schuller, The Curator's Job Description: Development and Evaluation
  • Christina B. Updike, Position Classification: The Evaluation of a Job Description
  • Rebecca Miller Hoort, Equal Pay for Equal Work and Comparable Worth: An Introduction
  • Lynda J. Ames, Equal Pay for Work of Comparable Value: Issues to Consider When Beginning an Initiative
  • Carla Conrad Freeman, Professional Issues for the Visual Resources Curator: A Bibliography

Vol. 5, No. 3 (Autumn 1988)

Report on the ICONCLASS Workshop, November 2-4, 1987, by Catherine Gordon
  • Preface
  • Forward
  • Participants
  • Projects
  • Preliminaries
  • ICONCLASS Examples
  • Discussion
  • Format
  • Order
  • Interpretation
  • Evolution
  • Future Publications
  • Instruction
  • Appendix A: ICONCLASS Questionnaire
  • Appendix B: Glossary of Notations
  • Appendix C: Sample Photographs
  • Appendix D: Reference Books
  • Bibliography/Project Contributions

 

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Christine L. Sundt, Editor
Visual Resources Consultant and Educator
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