Art History Without Slides

Digital images offer professors flexibility in teaching, but creating collections is difficult

By BROCK READ

Northampton, Mass.

Dana Leibsohn, an assistant professor of art at Smith College, is talking about Nazcan pottery in her survey course on pre-Columbian art. The rough surfaces of the vessels, she explains, reflect the rock-strewn deserts of the makers' Peruvian homeland.

She...

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