{"id":154,"date":"2010-06-10T15:53:22","date_gmt":"2010-06-10T15:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/news\/specialcollections\/2010\/06\/10\/european-popular-imagery-collection-is-cool-site-for-june-2010\/"},"modified":"2010-06-10T15:53:22","modified_gmt":"2010-06-10T15:53:22","slug":"european-popular-imagery-collection-is-cool-site-for-june-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/2010\/06\/10\/european-popular-imagery-collection-is-cool-site-for-june-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"European Popular Imagery Collection is Cool Site for June 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spanning the fifteenth through the nineteenth centuries, the Harry Ransom Center\u2019s (at the University of Texas at Austin) European popular imagery collection is now fully accessible online via two sources: <a href=\"http:\/\/research.hrc.utexas.edu:8080\/hrcxtf\/view?docId=ead\/00484p1.xml\"> the Center\u2019s finding aid<\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artstor.org\/what-is-artstor\/w-html\/col-ransom-utaustin.shtml\">ARTstor\u2019s nonprofit digital library<\/a>.<br \/>\nThe Ransom Center\u2019s online finding aid includes descriptive text derived from collector\u2019s notes and a lengthy subject index. Each record in the finding aid also includes a link to the related image. ARTstor\u2019s digital library provides advanced search functions and the ability to group selected images for PowerPoint display in classrooms, with images at high resolution.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nThe invention of the printing press in the fifteenth century and the resultant cultural phenomenon called \u201cPopular Imagery\u201d is a perfect example of cause and effect. Like printed words, unlimited reproductions of images helped bring about the development of a new visual language in early European society and a burgeoning cultural renaissance. The broad scope of the collection, whose origins include nine European countries, illustrate this fact. Prints make up the bulk of the popular imagery collection, with 686 intaglios (including 17 mezzotints), 115 woodcuts, one wood engraving, and six lithographs. Researchers will find an abundance of subjects, from political satire on kings, rulers, revolution, and war to social satire on gender, marriage, and domestic life; from religious studies and their allegorical themes on vice and virtue to numerous motifs on \u201cThe Ages of Man,\u201d and \u201cThe Dance Macabre\u201d or \u201cDance of Death.\u201d Great moments in science and technology are visually well-represented in the collection, as are entertaining designs for buildings, board games, and signs of the Zodiac.<br \/>\nWhile some of the works in this collection were created anonymously\u2014often to protect the creator from ridicule, incarceration, or worse\u2014the collection also includes imagery by many significant artists of the time period, including Albrecht D\u00fcrer (1471\u20131528), Hans Holbein (1497\u20131543) and Lucas Cranach, the Younger (1515\u20131586).<br \/>\n*From <em>Cultural Compass<\/em>, June 1, 2010<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spanning the fifteenth through the nineteenth centuries, the Harry Ransom Center\u2019s (at the University of Texas at Austin) European popular imagery collection is now fully accessible online via two sources: the Center\u2019s finding aidand ARTstor\u2019s nonprofit digital library. The Ransom Center\u2019s online finding aid includes descriptive text derived from collector\u2019s notes and a lengthy subject [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-154","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-cool-site-of-the-month"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}