A Guide To...Art History

Like the art and architecture that you study, your presentation slides and architectural models also communicate information and ideas.

Judge your own work based on project goals, art historical conventions, and conversations with peers and instructors

• does it communicate effectively?
  • where does it fall short?
• Is your layout appropriate?
  • can it be improved?
• what is your audience looking at while you are speaking?
  • do your visuals keep their attention?

• Who will see your image?
   
• Where will your image end up?
  • in a paper?
  • in a presentation?
  • shared with your class on Moodle?
  • on the open web?

These are all questions you need to ask yourself and answer.

Familiarize yourself with the "terms and conditions of use" of your image sources.

Recognize that, for the most part, images you scan or find on the web and incorporate into a paper to be read by your instructor or a presentation to be viewed by your class fall under "fair use." If you decide to take your project further, you may need to return to your sources, reassess any use restrictions for the images, and seek permissions.

When you find images on the web, get used to looking for rights statements, Creative Commons symbols, and the copyright symbol.

Do a thorough job of recording source information for any citations required by your instructor or so you can find the image again if you need to.

Copyright Law of the United States select "Chapter 1"

Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 106 and 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright. In determining whether the use made of a work in any particular case is a fair use the factors to be considered shall include— 

(1) the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;

(2) the nature of the copyrighted work;

(3) the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and

(4) the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.

The fact that a work is unpublished shall not itself bar a finding of fair use if such finding is made upon consideration of all the above factors.