Art History Lists?

[Whit_Blauvelt]

Excuse me. I know art history isn't in the history department, but perhaps
someone knows how I'd track down listservs in art history for a friend
who, as a freelance editor of art textbooks, often has to quickly find
expertise on a wide range of questions in diverse specialties (many of
which concern history's artless aspects, also).

Of course, she has her means and connections without the net. But she
sees all the use I get out of it in philosophy, and wonders if it's
evolved enough yet in her own field that she should get an internet
account and invest time in making it an asset to her work.

Whit
whi...@dorsai.dorsai.org

[Lynn H. Nelson]

Hello, Whit;

You can get the addresses of several art history lists by:

telnet ukanaix.cc.ukans.edu

password= history

This is the infoserver HNSource. In the list of all available resources,
you'll find "Brown's list of discussion lists," and I think you'll find
what you want there.

Just as a suggestion, I think that your friend really needs to look into
mosaic or x-windows. There is a great deal of art going up on World Wide
Web, including the prize winning "louvre" (which is not the Louvre but a
"tour" of some things from smaller museums of Paris, Rome Reborn --the
Vatican Library Exhibit, the National gallery of Australia, African
Graphics, Dscriptorium, 1492, and several others. The NLM is carrying
6.000 images on the History of Medicine, for instance, and Hellenic
Civilization plans on having exhibits from every museum in Greece.

Lynn
University of Kansas

[Don Mabry]

For those interested in art, connecting to the FineArt Forum is a
good idea. One can gopher to gopher.msstate.edu or use mosaic and
the URL http://www.msstate.edu

Don Mabry
Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences
Professor of History
Mississippi State University
Mississippi State, MS 39762
dj...@ra.msstate.edu