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Keeping Our Eyes Open: Visualizing Networks And Art History, Stephanie Porras
Keeping Our Eyes Open: Visualizing Networks And Art History, Stephanie Porras
Artl@s Bulletin
Network visualizations have the potential to translate messy archival work into clouds of connection, powerful maps of relations that can reveal hidden agents or nodes of production. But network visualizations must also be understood as artifacts of our own visual culture, laden with the biases and limits of both past and present knowledge systems. Rather than seeing networks as uniform webs of connection, social network analysis must productively interrogate how biopolitical, cultural and social power are manifested within these visualizations, reinforcing the biases and lacunae of the archive.
Continuity And Disruption In European Networks Of Print Production, 1550-1750, Matthew D. Lincoln
Continuity And Disruption In European Networks Of Print Production, 1550-1750, Matthew D. Lincoln
Artl@s Bulletin
Computational analysis of the potential historical professional networks inferred from surviving print impressions offers novel insight into the evolution of early modern artistic printmaking in Europe. This analysis traces a longue durée print production history that examines the changing ways in which different regional printmaking communities interacted between 1550 and 1750, highlighting the powerful impact of demographic forces and calling in to question narratives based on single key individuals or the emergence of specific national schools.