Industrial Transcendentalists

Artworks in Relation to Industrial Capitalism

To highlight the subversive and transcendental aspect of the artists' creative process, it was important to structure data in  a way that would  highlight industrial or commercial materials used in the creation of these works. The VRA schema was used for the resource template to catalog artworks within this Omeka S site.  This allowed for the addition of a "Manufacturer" element to add pertinent information about corporate entities responsible for the manufacture of materials transformed by artists featured in the collection. Linking the manufacturer or coprorate entity name to authorities such as The Getty Union LIst of Artist Names (ULAN) and Library of Congress Name Authority FIle (LCNAF) revealed unexpected historical information while providing improved interoperability to disseminate knowledge about the history of industrial capitalism and American art.