Lugt's Répertoire Online

2003 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Brooke Henderson
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Electronic Version ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Auction House ◽  
History Of Collecting ◽  
Art Objects ◽  
Challenging Tasks ◽  
History Of ◽  
Market Trends ◽  
The Hague

Lugt's Répertoire Online, created by IDC Publishers in close co-operation with the Netherlands Institute for Art History RKD in The Hague, is an impressive resource tool and welcome addition for researchers who require information located within the complex arena of auction house art sales catalogs. Also referred to as art sales catalogs, auction catalogs are valuable sources of information on the provenance of art objects, the history of collecting, and historical market trends. Locating auction sales information can be one of the more challenging tasks for a researcher. There are literally thousands of auction house sales catalogs produced worldwide each year, and it is often difficult for a researcher to pinpoint which catalog holds the desired information. Researchers usually turn to union lists of sales catalogs, such as Frits Lugt's Répertoire des catalogues de ventes publiques. Lugt's Répertoire Online, the first volume of which was released by IDC in January 2003, is the electronic version of Lugt's Répertoire, a union list of sales catalogs that has been critical to researchers for more than half a century. This immense printed work in 4 volumes appeared between 1938 and 1987, and although it has been out of print for years, Lugt's Répertoire is still one of the most widely consulted art historical reference works as it essentially functions as a finding aid for art sales catalogs. In the print version of the Répertoire, which covers the period 1600 to 1925, Lugt lists more than 100,000 art sales catalogs from libraries in Europe and the United States. He not only describes the collections of the larger libraries, such as the Paris Bibliothèque de l'Art et de l'Archéologie, but also catalogs the contents of minor collections. Volume 1 of the Lugt's Répertoire Online lists catalogs from the period 1600 to 1825. Volume 2 (1826–1860) has recently been added and therefore more than doubling the current number of records, and the additional volumes will follow sometime soon thereafter.

Networks and Opportunities: A Digital History of Ireland’s Great Famine Refugees in New York

2019 ◽  
Vol 124 (5) ◽  
pp. 1591-1629 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tyler Anbinder ◽  
Cormac Ó Gráda ◽  
Simone A. Wegge
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
The United States ◽  
Electronic Version ◽  
Easy Access ◽  
Digital History ◽  
Irish Famine ◽  
Savings Bank ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
History Of

Abstract For decades, historians portrayed the immigrants who arrived in the United States in the mid-nineteenth century fleeing the great Irish Famine as a permanent proletariat, doomed to live out their lives in America in poverty due to illiteracy, nativism, and a lack of vocational skills. Recent research, however, primarily by economic historians, has demonstrated that large numbers of Famine refugees actually fared rather well in the United States, saving surprising sums in bank accounts and making strides up the American socioeconomic ladder. These scholars, however, have never attempted to explain why some Famine immigrants thrived in the U.S. while others struggled merely to scrape by. Utilizing the unusually detailed records of New York’s Emigrant Savings Bank in conjunction with the methods of the digital humanities, this article seeks to understand what characteristics separated those Irish Famine immigrants who fared well financially from those who did not. Analysis of a database of more than 15,000 depositors suggests that networking was the key to economic advancement for the Famine immigrants. Those who lived in residential enclaves with other immigrants born in the same Irish parish saved significantly more than other immigrants, and those who created employment niches based on an Irish birthplace also amassed more wealth than those who did not. The electronic version of the article provides easy access to the database and interactive maps, allowing readers to ask their own questions of the data. The article also fleshes out the life stories of many of the immigrants found in the database, using documents found on genealogy websites such as Ancestry.com. These handwritten census records, ship manifests, and bank ledgers are hyperlinked to the electronic version of the article. That makes this essay ideal for classroom use—students can move effortlessly to the documents that underpin each paragraph and see clearly how historians use archival evidence to formulate arguments and shape historical narratives.

scholarly journals ORION—Art Collections and Collectors in Portugal

Heritage ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 1045-1059
Author(s):  
Vera Mariz ◽  
Rosário Salema de Carvalho ◽  
Fernando Cabral ◽  
Maria Neto ◽  
Clara Moura Soares ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Database Management System ◽  
Controlled Vocabulary ◽  
International Standards ◽  
Art Collections ◽  
Relational Capacity ◽  
History Of Collecting ◽  
Art Objects ◽  
History Of ◽  
One Step ◽  
New Research

ORION is a digital art history research-oriented project focused on the study of art collections and collectors in Portugal, supported on a relational database management system. Besides the obvious advantage of organizing and systematizing an enormous amount of information, promoting its analysis, this database was specifically designed to highlight the relationships between data. Its relational capacity is not only one of the most relevant features of ORION, but a differentiating quality, one step forward in comparison to other international databases and studies that use digital methodologies. This article discusses the methods and the advantages of using ORION in research related to the history of collecting, art markets and provenance of art objects in Portugal, where it is the very first time that an approach such as this is intended, looking for a systematization of data that paves the way to the emergence of new research questions. Furthermore, and because ORION aims to share the data and knowledge with other projects, institutions and researchers, the database uses different international standards, such as data structure (CIDOC-OIC and Getty-CDWA), controlled vocabulary (Iconclass, Art and Architecture Thesaurus (AAT), Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN), and Union List of Artist Names (ULAN)) and communication and exchange of information (CIDOC-CRM).

The Chinese Art “Arms Race”

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 229-256
Author(s):  
K. Ian Shin
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
American Exceptionalism ◽  
The United States ◽  
Chinese Art ◽  
Mainland Chinese ◽  
Metropolitan Museum Of Art ◽  
History Of Collecting ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
History Of

Interest in Chinese art has swelled in the United States in recent years. In 2015, the collection of the late dealer-collector Robert Hatfield Ellsworth fetched no less than $134 million at auction (much of it from Mainland Chinese buyers), while the Metropolitan Museum of Art drew over 800,000 visitors to its galleries for the blockbuster show “China: Through the Looking Glass”—the fifth most-visited exhibition in the museum’s 130-year history. The roots of this interest in Chinese art reach back to the first two decades of the 20th Century and are grounded in the geopolitical questions of those years. Drawing from records of major collectors and museums in New York and Washington, D.C., this article argues that the United States became a major international center for collecting and studying Chinese art through cosmopolitan collaboration with European partners and, paradoxically, out of a nationalist sentiment justifying hegemony over a foreign culture derived from an ideology of American exceptionalism in the Pacific. This article frames the development of Chinese art as a contested process of knowledge production between the United States, Europe, and China that places the history of collecting in productive conversation with the history of Sino-American relations and imperialism.

The treasure of the Berlin State museums and its allied capture: remarks and questions

1998 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 308-341
Author(s):  
K Goldmann
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Former Soviet Union ◽  
The United States ◽  
Documentary Evidence ◽  
World War ◽  
Art Objects ◽  
Art Works ◽  
German Nation ◽  
History Of

Following the disclosure of archives in the former Soviet Union detailing art works taken from Germany at the end of World War II, it is now possible to reconstruct more accurately a history of those objects removed from Germany but never returned. Inconsistencies in the documentary evidence concerning both the location of objects sent West from Berlin and other repositories (particularly in the last few months of the war) and the number of objects returned to Germany indicate that the United States may have been involved in an unofficial policy of claiming as war booty art treasures form the conquered German nation. This article attempts to detail some of those inconsistencies by comparing what is known of the inventories of German museums before the war, the movements of art objects and repositories used during the war, and the inventories of the German museums today, in order to reconstruct some of this missing pact.

scholarly journals Sociocultural Influences on Attitudes Toward Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP), History of PrEP Use, and Future PrEP Use in HIV-Vulnerable Cisgender Men Who Have Sex With Men Across the United States

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 128-158
Author(s):  
Drew A. Westmoreland ◽  
Viraj V. Patel ◽  
Alexa B. D'Angelo ◽  
Denis Nash ◽  
Christian Grov
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Hiv Transmission ◽  
Social Influences ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Connections ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
National Cohort ◽  
History Of ◽  
Sex With Men ◽  
Exposure Prophylaxis

Despite its proven effectiveness in reducing HIV transmission, pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) use remains low. This study used data from a 2017–2018 U.S. national cohort to investigate social influences on PrEP experience and future PrEP use among cisgender men who have sex with men. We used descriptive statistics and multivariable logistic analyses to examine social influences (e.g., how participants heard about PrEP and number of persons they knew taking PrEP) associated with each previous PrEP use and intentions to use PrEP. Among participants who knew of PrEP, commonly reported ways of first hearing about PrEP were through social media (27.4%) and friends (26.8%). These were also cited top influences on participants' current attitudes toward PrEP (friends 23.5%, social media 22.1%). Multivariable logistic regression analyses found that knowing more people taking PrEP was associated with increased odds of previously using PrEP and intending to use PrEP. Friends and social media were common and influential sources of information regarding PrEP. Results suggest that tapping into these social connections may effectively disseminate public health messaging about PrEP and encourage use among key populations to reduce HIV burden.

scholarly journals Carbofuran Cancellation Process

EDIS ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 2009 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Frederick Fishel
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
The United States ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Fact Sheet ◽  
History Of ◽  
Pesticide Applicators ◽  
The U.S

PI-170, a 4-page illustrated fact sheet by Frederick Fishel, provides a brief history of carbofuran’s use in the United States, describes risks associated with carbofuran use, and outlines the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) stated rational for revoking its regulations that have allowed carbofuran residues in food. This publication also describes the EPA’s plans announced in 2008 to cancel the pesticide’s registration due to risks carbofuran poses to pesticide applicators and to birds in treated fields. Includes additional sources of information. Published by the UF Department of Agronomy, August 2008.  

Special Considerations for Evaluation and Treatment of Spanish-Speaking Patients with Cleft Palate

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (5) ◽  
pp. 41-49
Author(s):  
Ellen Moore
Keyword(s):  
Cleft Palate ◽  
The United States ◽  
Culturally Competent ◽  
Speech Language Pathology ◽  
Spanish Speaking ◽  
Appropriate Treatment ◽  
Oral Pressure ◽  
Language Pathology ◽  
History Of ◽  
Spanish Speaking Population

As the Spanish-speaking population in the United States continues to grow, there is increasing need for culturally competent and linguistically appropriate treatment across the field of speech-language pathology. This paper reviews information relevant to the evaluation and treatment of Spanish-speaking and Spanish-English bilingual children with a history of cleft palate. The phonetics and phonology of Spanish are reviewed and contrasted with English, with a focus on oral pressure consonants. Cultural factors and bilingualism are discussed briefly. Finally, practical strategies for evaluation and treatment are presented. Information is presented for monolingual and bilingual speech-language pathologists, both in the community and on cleft palate teams.

State-by-State Use of AMA Guides

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (5) ◽  
pp. 3-7, 16
Keyword(s):  
Expert Testimony ◽  
Narrow Range ◽  
The United States ◽  
Workers Compensation ◽  
Federal Employees ◽  
Permanent Disability ◽  
Sixth Edition ◽  
History Of ◽  
Canadian Provinces

Abstract This article presents a history of the origins and development of the AMA Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment (AMA Guides), from the publication of an article titled “A Guide to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment of the Extremities and Back” (1958) until a compendium of thirteen guides was published in book form in 1971. The most recent, sixth edition, appeared in 2008. Over time, the AMA Guides has been widely used by US states for workers’ compensation and also by the Federal Employees Compensation Act, the Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act, as well as by Canadian provinces and other jurisdictions around the world. In the United States, almost twenty states have developed some form of their own impairment rating system, but some have a narrow range and scope and advise evaluators to consult the AMA Guides for a final determination of permanent disability. An evaluator's impairment evaluation report should clearly document the rater's review of prior medical and treatment records, clinical evaluation, analysis of the findings, and a discussion of how the final impairment rating was calculated. The resulting report is the rating physician's expert testimony to help adjudicate the claim. A table shows the edition of the AMA Guides used in each state and the enabling statute/code, with comments.

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