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50 Years of Art Books from the Met, for Free Download
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#22Please use responsibly. Recommended to delay by a few days - it seems like there is an initial surge going on right now. Increase download delay to 20 sec - 1 minute. Be respectful. https://github.com/ilyaperepelitsa/met_book_downloader
P.S. it will take hours or days =))) <3 <3 <3
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#23This is probably one of the best things I've seen posted in HN. Art books, aside from the actual art, contain essays written by academics or experts not found in Wikipedia or similar. They're also printed in small amounts and fairly expensive (e.g. books on exhibitions are $50-70). This kind of project opens up a lot of knowledge to the general public. Now if we could get more Kenneth Clark books reprinted...
Totally agree - the essays/papers/artist ephemera in most of these books are impossible to find and rarely reprinted. I've always found it strange that looking at art is pretty common but reading/talking about art in a critical way is seen as too academic/inaccessible for most people. I hope that by putting this stuff into the public domain more people get excited about Art History - it's a super interesting field that has a lot to offer and learning how to do visual analysis is pretty useful in a ton of different fields.
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#24Does anyone have leads to other collections like this?
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#25Several hundred publications from the Getty Museum (and the other research arms of the Getty) are available for free download as well: https://www.getty.edu/publications/virtuallibrary/
(I work at the Getty Research Institute)
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#26Would anybody who's familiar with some items from the collection care to give a top three (or so) for those of us who don't know where to start?
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#27This is probably one of the best things I've seen posted in HN. Art books, aside from the actual art, contain essays written by academics or experts not found in Wikipedia or similar. They're also printed in small amounts and fairly expensive (e.g. books on exhibitions are $50-70). This kind of project opens up a lot of knowledge to the general public. Now if we could get more Kenneth Clark books reprinted...
If his civilisation television series is anything to go by, probably not the best person to read as far as learning about history goes.
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#28Please use responsibly. Recommended to delay by a few days - it seems like there is an initial surge going on right now. Increase download delay to 20 sec - 1 minute. Be respectful. https://github.com/ilyaperepelitsa/met_book_downloader
Is there a torrent of this so I could help host?
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#29I had the idea of Google selfie Art a few years ago and did it with a small team for a museum in Hamburg (open data). I would love to do it for the MET museum as well. I tried some real time face tracking in opencv aswell. The app is called zeitblick. It’s more or less a prototype, maybe some of you will have a joy for interacting with art data creatively :)
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#30I’m surprised that they don’t charge, especially given the high quality.
When you visit, they give you a real hard sell and guilt trip for their “recommended donation”. They should make access to this a perk of membership.