It is your responsibility to comply with United States Copyright Law, when using copies of other individual’s
creative works.

At the VRC, Copyright Law is most likely to pertain to educational use of copies of concrete expressions of a creative work, including

• Musical works, scores, lyrics, and sound recordings
• Pictorial/graphic works, art, sculpture, photographs
• Audiovisual works, motion pictures, videos

Slides

The 35mm slide collection contains approximately 45,000 images of art from all cultural periods.

• Fogg Slides:  Filed by the medium, and then by location.  (Exception:  Asian Art, Oceanic Art, Art of the early Americas, and African Art are filed by location, and then medium.)  Please see the VR Curator for assistance with this idiosyncratic collection.
• American Art Slides by Sandak:  Filed by the vendor’s category of art, such as “painting” or “decorative art”.
• Artist Slides:  Filed by the last name of the known artist.  However, architects are filed in the Fogg collection under the location of their architectural works.
• Fiber Arts Slides:  Filed within the Fogg Collection (ID #CF600)
• Donated slides - Art of MesoAmerica:  Stored in 4 carousels.  Many are “pink”.  Not catalogued.
• Donated slides - Misc. Art:  Stored in Copy Stand Room.  Not catalogued.

New 35 mm slides are no longer being produced for the VRC collection.  If you require slides for teaching, you can contact ITS at 245-2319 for assistance.

CD-Roms & internet-accessible Digital Image Collections

• ARTstor, a licensed database of digital art images ccontains nearly one million images for use in teaching and research. (Go to link on Alkek Library Databases Page)

• The departmental collection contains approximately 13,000 images from all ages, but consists primarily of examples of modern art.  Most of these images have been uploaded to MDID, with its searchable website interface.  Please use your university ID and password to log into this catalog at http://mdid.txstate.edu.  The complete searchable catalog is available in Filemaker 9 at the VRC; please contact the VR Curator for assistance with this.
   

• DVD-Roms containing still images and/or moving images include:
  
  1. “Photography Now: One Hundred Portfolios”, produced at Wright State University. (4 discs, including “The New street Photography” ©1994, “Photography in the 1990’s: Fifty Portfolios” ©1995, “The Celebrative Spirit: 1937-1943” ©1997)
  2. “Women in Documentary Photography 2000”, produced at Wright State University (©2000)
  3. Public Art Network competition presented by Americans for the Arts on CD-ROM
     
     • “2004 Year in Review”; 140 images of 46 of the year's most innovative and exciting public art projects.
     • “2005 Year in Review”; 123 total images of 37 innovative public art projects.  “Artist Donald Lipski and urban design and planning consultant Sherry Kafka Wagner reviewed and presented their selections of the most exciting, compelling, and innovative public art projects completed between April 2004 and April 2005 in the United States and beyond.”
     • “2006 Year in Review”; “Artist Mary Miss and Robert Rindler, artist and President of the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, reviewed 180 public art projects submitted for consideration to select highlights of innovative and exciting public art projects completed throughout the United States over the last year.”
     • "2007 Year in Review". "Artists Miwon Kwon and Larry Kirkland have each picked 20 unique public art projects completed throughout the United States over the last year".

Other CD-Roms, having various titles, pertain to the History of Art or Music; most require Mac OS 9 to operate.

 

 

Film

The Film Collection contains materials in DVD or VHS tape format, pertaining to the History of Cinema or to documentation of Artists and the History of Art. A new category of film was created during the Fall of 2008; these films pertain to Video Art or Performance Art. Please see VR Staff for assistance locating a particular title.

Searchable electronic catalogs for film or for music DVDs and CDs are located on the faculty workstation at JCM 3102d.

You can search on titles only using MDID as follows:

Briefly,

When you Browse the collections, at the top of the page there is a pull-down bar for “Collection”.  You can choose between “VRC Film” or “Art History” or “Personal”, or if you have created them “Favorites”.  Then choose “title” in the other pull-down bar, and go to the letter that starts the word you think is the first word in the title. 

If you prefer to work with the Search page, then at the top you will put a check mark to the left of “VRC Film” and remove it from the left of “Art History”.  Enter a word or words in the title block. The keyword block should work for a word in a title also.

You can also look under Collection Overview using the link “Terms” (see it below the word VRC Film) and this will take you to the tag clouds.  There, for example, you could choose the word “painting” and get the result  “New York Art Scene, The: 1940-1970; Painters Painting”.

BBC Sounds CDs

The BBC Sounds CD collection contains short clips of a variety of sounds. An index to the sounds is available. This collection has been transferred to Communication Design area; please contact Holly Shields for location and information.

ITN-Reuters Video Clips

The ITN-Reuters Video Clip DVD collection contains short video clips of a variety of filmed subjects. An index to clip content is available.  (Please contact the VR Curator for assistance with these.)

 

Textbooks on reserve

“Adobe Photoshop CS3 for Photographers” (Mallios Photography Class, by Evening) / CD
“Adobe Photoshop CS4 for Photographers” (Mallios Photography Class, by Evening) / CD
“Adobe Photoshop CS3 for Photographers, Real World” (Mallios Photography Class, by Chavez & Blatner)
“After Modern Art 1945-2000” (Hopkins)
“Alexander the Great & The Hellenistic Age”, 1 of 2 (McInerney)
“Alexander the Great & The Hellenistic Age”, 2 of 2 (McInerney)
“Art & Today” (Heartney)
“Artists, Critics, Content” (Fabozzi)
“Art History” (Stokstad)
“Art in the Hellenistic Age” (Pollitt)
“Art in Theory, 1900-2000: An Anthology of Changing Ideas”  (Harrison, Wood)
“Art Since 1900” (Foster, Krauss, Bois, Buchloch)
“Art through the Ages, Gardner’s”, 11th ed. (Kleiner, Mamiya, Tansey)
“Art through the Ages, Gardner’s”, Vol. 11, 12th ed. (Kleiner, Mamiya, Tansey)
“Avant-Garde in Exhibition: New Art in the 20th Century, The” (Altshuler)
“Color” 6th edition (2010, Zelanski & Fisher)
“Creative Impulse” (2003) Texas State Edition 6th ed. (Sporre)
“Critical Issues in American Art” (Calo)
“Dada and Surrealism” (Gale)
“Dadaism” (Elger)
“Drawing: Structure and Vision” (Drury, Stryker)
“Far Eastern Art” (Lee)
“Framing America: A Social History of American Art” (Pohl)
“History of 20th Century Art, A” (Blistene)
“History of Graphic Design” (Meggs)
“History of Italian Renaissance Art” (Hartt, Wilkins)
“History of Modern Art” (Arnason, Prather)
“Inside the White Cube” (O’Doherty)
“Italian Renaissance Art” (Adams)
“Launching the Imagination” (3-D Design, by Stewart) / CD (2 copies)
“Layers of Perception” (Randall Reid)
“Marcel Duchamp” (Ades, Cox, Hopkins)
“Modern Art: A Critical Introduction” 2nd ed. (Meecham & Sheldon)
“Modern Art” (Britt)
“Modern Art” (Hunter, Jacobus, Wheeler)
“Photography in Print” (Goldberg)
“Photography: A Cultural History” (Marien)
“Shaping Space” 2nd edition (Zelanski, Fisher)
“Styles, Schools, and Movements” (Dempsey)
“Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art” (Stiles, Selz)
 

Pantone Color Library

This collection of the most popular PANTONE Publications includes:

• FORMULA GUIDES coated, uncoated, matte
• COLOR BRIDGE coated, uncoated
• METALLIC FORMULA GUIDE coated
• PASTEL FORMULA GUIDE coated + uncoated
• TINTS four–guide set
• 4–COLOR PROCESS guides coated, uncoated
• SOLID CHIPS three–book set
  
  

  

 

 

A/V Equipment

Various kinds of A/V equipment are available for loan to Faculty to assist them with classroom and conference presentations. Please ask the VRC Receptionist for assistance with these. The laptop and digital camera, available to Faculty only, must be checked out directly from the VR Curator. 

 

Can go out, Faculty only:

• Digital Projector with Mac on rolling cart
• Elmo projector on rolling cart (digital)
• Overhead transparency projector on rolling cart (analog)
• A/V rolling cart (DVD player, VHS Tape player, TV monitor)
• Slide Projector (several available)
• Old fashioned tripod-base projection screen
• Super8 movie camera & projector
• Digital camera (old Nikon Coolpix 955)
• 24 folding chairs on rolling cart
• various Mac computer cables (in case of presenter difficulties)
• Old laptop
• VHS/DVD combo player and DVD burner

Stays at VRC:

• Digital cam. card reader
• Copy stand
• Digital SLR (Nikon D200) for copy stand work
• Large flatbed scanner (Epson 1640XL)
• Small flatbed scanner (Epson 2480 photo)
• Slide scanner with bulk loader (Nikon LS5000)
• Epson GT-2500 document scanner with feeder
• Light tables
• Student film viewing station (DVD/VCR combo player)
• Laser printer (“Stuart” in lab and “Mickey” in collections)