Art History Survey Collection The Art History Survey Collection,
which contains nearly 5000 images, is the product of a
collaboration between the Digital Library Federation's Academic
Image Cooperative project and the College Art Association. This
"survey collection" has been defined on the basis of an "overlap
concordance" based on 13 standard art history survey texts, some
consulted in multiple editions (please see Textbook Concordance
below). It is intended to include at least one image of every
art object or monument reproduced in at least two of these
standard survey texts. The Art History Survey Collection
represents an experiment in defining a "consensus collection"
that supports widespread teaching needs, but does not yoke the
teacher or student to any one particular text, pedagogical
approach, or "canon." Images in this collection are based on
professionally produced 35mm–color photography, much of it
original photography produced from the object or monument. A
significant portion of the images were