Painting by Numbers: Data-Driven Histories of Nineteenth-Century Art

257 Pages·2021·138.767 MB·English

by  Diana Seave Greenwald

Painting by Numbers

Painting by Numbers
Data- Driven Histories of Nineteenth-Century Art
DIANA SEAVE GREENWALD
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
PRINCETON AND OXFORD
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Front cover illustrations (l to r): Figure 3.12 (detail); Claude Raguet Hirst, The
Bookworm’s Table (detail), 1890s. Brooklyn Museum, Designated Purchase Fund,
80.79; Figure 5.18 (detail); William Bouguereau, Breton Brother and Sister (detail),
1871. Metropolitan Museum of Art, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection Bequest of
Catharine Lorillard Wolfe, 1887, 87.15.32; Johan Joseph Zoffany, The Drummond Family
(detail), ca. 1769. Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, B1977.14.86;
Edgar Degas, Sulking (detail), ca. 1870. Metropolitan Museum of Art, H.O. Havemeyer
Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H.O. Havemeyer, 1929, 29.100.43; Cecilia Beaux, Man with
Cat (Henry Sturgis Drinker) (detail), 1898. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest
of Henry Ward Ranger through the National Academy of Design, 1952.10.1; and
Robert S. Ducanson, Landscape with Rainbow (detail), 1859. Smithsonian American
Art Museum, Gift of Leonard and Paula Granoff, 1983.95.160.
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Names: Greenwald, Diana, 1989- author.
Title: Painting by numbers : data- driven histories of nineteenth- century art /
Diana Seave Greenwald.
Description: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2021] |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020022664 (print) | LCCN 2020022665 (ebook) |
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Subjects: LCSH: Art— Economic aspects— History— 19th century. | Art, Modern—
19th century. | Art and society— History— 19th century. | Art— Historiography—
Methodology. | Economic history— Methodology.
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Contents
1 What Is a Data- Driven History of Art? 1
2 The Historical Data of the Art World, 23
3 Between City and Country: Industrialization and Images of Nature
at the Paris Salon, 52
4 Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? Artistic Labor
and Time-Constraint in Nineteenth- Century America, 85
5 Implied But Not Shown: Empire at the Royal Academy, 115
6 Conclusion, 153
Appendices
A Further Information about Compilation of and Access to Data Sources, 157
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, 159
C Subject Headings in the Whiteley Index Identified as Rural, Industrial,
Religious, and Family Tags, 165
D Full Regression Tables, How to Read Regression Tables, and Further
Discussion of Results, 167
E French Transcription of Letters Written by Jean- François Millet, 175
F Still Life Keywords Identified in Titles of Works Exhibited at the
National Academy of Design, 1826–1900, 177
G Further Information about Geographic Classifications of Royal
Academy Data and Imperial Keywords, 178
Acknowledgments, 180
Notes, 184
Bibliography, 215
Index, 235

Painting by Numbers