Our Sources
In-Haus is a conceptual thesis project brought to life for educational purposes. As a speculative project, the sources used are listed down below…
Artstor.
Artstor which is one of the greatest digital libraries of art and multimedia accessible for students and scholars. Packed within this url are thousands of digitized images of fine art, artists, and gallery spaces which one can browse by keyword search, advanced search, artstor’s collections, institutional collections, or public collections. Artstor has collected all of the copyright for these digital images and has come up with a tactic to ensure that these images are used for academic purposes; when an individual attempts to download an image to their device, they must first log in through their university and then acknowledge a copyright agreement brought up in a callout box.
The Oxford
Dictionary of Art.
The Oxford Dictionary of Art is an important tool that contains a full artistic dictionary as well as collective biographies about artists, artistic movements, and other fine art-related references. Working in tandem with Phaidon Encyclopedia of Art and Artists, the user gets a full range of fine art and the historical influences on the art historical genre. This book contains a different range of visuals and depictions of widely known artists, movements, etc. and is a great source for cross-referencing and more in-depth descriptions of specific aspects of fine art.
Met Custom
Print Web Store.
Art encompasses all of the prints that are accessible from their web platform. Similar to the MoMA’s selection previously referenced, the MET has obtained all necessary rights to reproduce prints of selected works from their own collections. The MET’s print store prides themselves on being a “collaboration” between the finest printers and their own knowledgeable staff, ensuring that “these prints achieve a superb standard of fidelity to the original artwork”. They offer a grand variety of prices, sizes, and artists with far more selection offerings than the MoMA, and allow the user to print to their own specifications such as medium, size, and custom framing.
MoMA Online
Prints Store.
The MoMA has obtained the necessary rights to reproduce such widely known pieces at multiple scales, offering a wide range of artists at various price points. Fom postcards to rare posters, the MoMa has a total of sixty seven prints for sale; their art pieces can be sorted and refined through filters on the side of the page by a variety of categorizations including genre of print, featured, price, color, size, artist, and shipping eligibility. There is no option to group or bundle these pieces, or create any kind of series with such prints; instead each piece has a description that is strictly about its specs and does not include any kind of historical information about the artist or movement.
Art Versus
Commerce by
Richard A. Herman.
Richard Herman’s article in the Michigan Bar Journal Art Versus Commerce: A Look at the Visual Rights Act is another piece on artistic copyright that highlights specific case studies surrounding VARA and other facets of such protective legislation. This piece clearly discerns what is and is not protected by these legal documents and clears up other art-law related concepts, such as the right of attribution, the right of integrity, and moral rights. There is also a crucial, distinct difference between VARA and copyright law and the ambiguous areas in which they overlap. Copyright law inherently includes legal ownership over specific works and visuals, limiting their ability to be reproduced or sold for profit.
Phaidon Encyclopedia of Art and Artists.
The big book Phaidon Encyclopedia of Art and Artists is an encyclopedia of well-known artists, art mediums, techniques, and anything related to art-making. It is a wealth of knowledge on anything art-centered and is a great source to research general touchpoints of a specific artist, art movement, or artistic references. For example, if an individual wanted to learn more about Vincent Van Gough’s life and career as an artist, they would find a standard description of the artists, his pieces, the Impressionist movement, and a small depiction of his work.