Painting by Numbers : : Data-Driven Histories of Nineteenth-Century Art / / Diana Seave Greenwald.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Arts 2021
• VerfasserIn: Greenwald, Diana Seave,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.) :; 55 color + 9 b/w illus. 14 tables.

A pathbreaking history of art that uses digital research and economic tools to reveal enduring inequities in the formation of the art historical canonPainting by Numbers presents a groundbreaking blend of art historical and social scientific methods to chart, for the first time, the sheer scale of nineteenth-century artistic production. With new quantitative evidence for more than five hundred thousand works of art, Diana Seave Greenwald provides fresh insights into the nineteenth century, and the extent to which art historians have focused on a limited—and potentially biased—sample of artwork from that time. She addresses long-standing questions about the effects of industrialization, gender, and empire on the art world, and she models more expansive approaches for studying art history in the age of the digital humanities.Examining art in France, the United States, and the United Kingdom, Greenwald features datasets created from indices and exhibition catalogs that—to date—have been used primarily as finding aids. From this body of information, she reveals the importance of access to the countryside for painters showing images of nature at the Paris Salon, the ways in which time-consuming domestic responsibilities pushed women artists in the United States to work in lower-prestige genres, and how images of empire were largely absent from the walls of London’s Royal Academy at the height of British imperial power. Ultimately, Greenwald considers how many works may have been excluded from art historical inquiry and shows how data can help reintegrate them into the history of art, even after such pieces have disappeared or faded into obscurity.Upending traditional perspectives on the art historical canon, Painting by Numbers offers an innovative look at the nineteenth-century art world and its legacy.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Painting by Numbers -- 1 What Is a Data-Driven History of Art -- 2 The Historical Data of the Art World -- 3 Between City and Country: Industrialization and Images of Nature at the Paris Salon -- 4 Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? Artistic Labor and Time-Constraint in Nineteenth-Century America -- 5 Implied But Not Shown: Empire at the Royal Academy -- 6 Conclusion -- Appendices -- A Further Information about Compilation of and Access to Data Sources -- B A Brief Historiography of the Study of Jean-François Millet and the Relationship between City and Country in Nineteenth-Century French Rural Genre Painting -- C Subject Headings in the Whiteley Index Identified as Rural, Industrial, Religious, and Family Tags -- D Full Regression Tables, How to Read Regression Tables, and Further Discussion of Results -- E French Transcription of Letters Written by Jean-François Millet -- F Still Life Keywords Identified in Titles of Works Exhibited at the National Academy of Design, 1826–1900 -- G Further Information about Geographic Classifications of Royal Academy Data and Imperial Keywords -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index