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Jim Coddington started the topic Picabia Digital Publication from MoMA in the discussion
Digital Art History on Humanities Commons 8 years, 10 months ago*Francis Picabia: Materials and Techniques*
This online publication features twelve richly illustrated essays by an
international group of conservators and curators and is now
available for free download here:This publication builds on the unique opportunity for technical study
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Matthew Lincoln deposited The Temporal Dimensions of the London Art Auction, 1780–1835 in the group
Digital Art History on Humanities Commons 8 years, 10 months agoThe rush of activity among London’s auction houses in the first few weeks of summer has long been a familiar occurrence that persists even today. However, this intense seasonal concentration of sales was not always so. This paper draws on quantitative methods to explore the gradual emergence of a tightly scheduled auction season in London at the t…[Read more]
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Laura Castro Royo deposited El fenómeno del mudejarismo y sus debates (ss. XIX-XX) in the group
Digital Art History on Humanities Commons 9 years agoAdjudicado a un momento histórico concreto, tras la conquista cristiana de Toledo (1085) y su incorporación a los reinos cristianos, el mudéjar se ha utilizado al mismo tiempo como sustento de la idea de convivencia entre musulmanes y cristianos y como definición de un «estilo nacional» dentro del arte español. Durante el redescubrimiento de al-…[Read more]
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Laura Castro Royo deposited La legitimación del poder en la Persia medieval a través del Šāh-nāmeh, «El Libro de los Reyes» in the group
Digital Art History on Humanities Commons 9 years agoLa literatura ha estado desde siempre asociada al poder, y en la Edad Media oriental esto no es una excepción. Cuando Abu’l-Qāsem Ferdowsī terminó su gran obra, el Šāh-nāmeh, en 1010, esta se transformó en un elemento legitimador de las dinastías que durante los siglos medievales pugnarían por el dominio de Persia. A través de sus versos y de…[Read more]
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Laura Castro Royo deposited El erotismo de Oriente y los escritos del Cannibal Club in the group
Digital Art History on Humanities Commons 9 years agoAbstract: El impacto del colonialismo y del recién descubierto Oriente provocó que el continente europeo proyectase en aquellas tierras lejanas, llenas de exotismo, leyendas y sensualidad, sus propias pasiones prohibidas y sus más oscuros deseos. El erotismo que las culturas indígenas despertaban en la sociedad victoriana llevó a la creación de so…[Read more]
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Laura Castro Royo created the doc El fenómeno del mudejarismo y sus debates (ss. XIX-XX) in the group
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Anke Finger deposited ReMEDIAting Flusser in the group
Digital Art History on Humanities Commons 9 years agoView video here: https://vimeo.com/156304605
The video serves as an introduction to the forthcoming _Flusser 2.0_ on Scalar, edited by Anke Finger and Britta Meredith, with Katherine Riedling (2017). -
Colin Greenstreet started the topic Maphackathon Zotero bibliographical group in the discussion
Open-source historical mapping on Humanities Commons 9 years agoThe maphackathon organising group have created a maphackathon Zotero bibliographical group. The group library is available for all to view, but to contribute and to edit you will need to be an invited member.
We would be delighted if members of the Humanities Commons Open-Source Historical Mapping group, the Digital Humanists group and the Linked…[Read more]
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Max Marmor posted an update in the group
Digital Art History on Humanities Commons 9 years, 1 month agoCFP for special issue on #DigitalArtHistory of the “Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy” now posted: https://jitp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/call-for-submissions/
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Colin Greenstreet started the topic Mapping the sounds of the Early Modern Thames shoreline – Treadmill cranes in the discussion
Open-source historical mapping on Humanities Commons 9 years, 1 month agoThe Agas map of London, published c. 1633, but showing London c. 1550-1560, shows a series of cranes at different places along the Thames north shore, both above and below London Bridge. These cranes appear to be treadmill cranes. An example of a large treadmill crane, powered by four men in a treadmill at one side of the crane, can be seen in…[Read more]
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Colin Greenstreet replied to the topic Use of pinterest as a discovery tool for map and image mapping sources in the discussion
Open-source historical mapping on Humanities Commons 9 years, 1 month agoSix days since launching the Thamesshore line #maphackathon Pinterest board we have 353 Pins and 10 Followers
images of Thames and Thames shoreline C17th to early C20th between London Bridge and Woolwich
images of Thames north and south shore parishes between London Bridge and WoolwichMajor sources of pins so far are:
ballastquay.com…[Read more]
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Matthew Lincoln deposited Digital art history: the American scene in the group
Digital Art History on Humanities Commons 9 years, 1 month agoAn interview with three American historians of art on the the past, present, and future of digital art history.
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Matthew Lincoln deposited Social Network Centralization Dynamics in Print Production in the Low Countries, 1550-1750 in the group
Digital Art History on Humanities Commons 9 years, 1 month agoThe development of a professionalized, highly centralized printmaking industry in northern Europe during the mid-sixteenth century has been argued to be the inevitable result of prints’ efficacy at reproducing images, and thus encouraging mass production. However, it is unclear whether such a centralized structure was truly inevitable, and if it…[Read more]
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John Levin started the topic High Quality 17th and 18th century maps of London in the discussion
Open-source historical mapping on Humanities Commons 9 years, 1 month agoThis is a list of high quality, freely downloadable, freely reuseable maps of seventeenth and eighteenth century London, suitable for georectification and for use in the map hackathon. I will be working on geo-rectifying these over Christmas, but doubt I will get all done.
An exact survey of … London after the Great Fire
From the New York…[Read more]
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Colin Greenstreet started the topic Use of pinterest as a discovery tool for map and image mapping sources in the discussion
Open-source historical mapping on Humanities Commons 9 years, 1 month agoI kicked off a MarineLives experiment today by creating a #maphackathon pinterest board, and publicising it on Twitter. It will be interesting to see if it acquires any followers and develops a creative life or is just a “good idea” which goes nowhere. As of 12.21 Wedneday December 7th 2016 it had eleven pins (all seeded by me) and had acquired…[Read more]
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Colin Greenstreet replied to the topic Spatial experiment at #maphackathon, Feb 10/11 2017 (TBC) in the discussion
Open-source historical mapping on Humanities Commons 9 years, 1 month agoProvisional goal of #maphackathon spatial experiment:
To build a river-centric analysis of commercial life in C17th and early C18th London and surrounds, using diverse text, numeric, visual and map data sources supplied or hacked by #maphackathon attendees. Visualisations to combine topographical, occupational and event/movements data; c…[Read more]
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Colin Greenstreet replied to the topic CFP of potential interest to the group in the discussion
Open-source historical mapping on Humanities Commons 9 years, 1 month agoPosted the CFP to @marinelivesorg Twitter account. As of 13.34 UK time, Tues Dec 6th 2016 seven Retweets
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Colin Greenstreet started the topic Linked open data from MarineLives semantic media wiki for experimentation in the discussion
Open-source historical mapping on Humanities Commons 9 years, 1 month agoThe MarineLives project uses a semantic media wiki as its platform to view and transcribe manuscript images, to annotate transcribed pages, and to create semantic biographies. All semantic biographies contain geographical location data. For example, semantic biographies for the hamlet of Limehouse in the parish of Stepney in the county of Middlesex…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate started the topic CFP of potential interest to the group in the discussion
Open-source historical mapping on Humanities Commons 9 years, 1 month agoCoordinates: Digital Mapping and 18th C Visual, Material, and Built Cultures
Art history’s digital turn has been stimulated by the possibilities of spatial research. Spurred by the collection, preservation, and distribution of art historical data in digital space—practices that have both collapsed and expanded our own discursive geog…[Read more] - Load More
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