•ICC++ is explainable and content-based image retrieval method.•ICC++ is based on compositional patterns for semantic understanding of art historical images.•Introducing Web Gallery of Art 500 ...(WGA500) dataset - to encourage further research in this domain.•Rigorous evaluations against traditional methods, deep features & SOTA methods.•Our method outperforms SOTA, while has an advantage over deep features in terms of explainability.
Image compositions are helpful in the study of image structures and assist in discovering the semantics of the underlying scene portrayed across art forms and styles. With the digitization of artworks in recent years, thousands of images of a particular scene or narrative could potentially be linked together. However, manually linking this data with consistent objectiveness can be a highly challenging and time-consuming task. In this work, we present a novel approach called Image Composition Canvas (ICC++) to compare and retrieve images having similar compositional elements. ICC++ is an improvement over ICC, specializing in generating low and high-level features (compositional elements) motivated by Max Imdahl’s work. To this end, we present a rigorous quantitative and qualitative comparison of our approach with traditional and state-of-the-art (SOTA) methods showing that our proposed method outperforms all of them. In combination with deep features, our method outperforms the best deep learning-based method, opening the research direction for explainable machine learning for digital humanities. We will release the code and the data post-publication.
Some of the recent acquisitions by the Rijksmuseum include: Jesus and the Canaanite Woman, Northern Netherlands?, c. 1550-55Oil on oak panel, 85 x 67 cm, Inscribed, on the reverse: Rap Sanc: Vrbino. ...pinx. / 1510; Model: Willem Danielsz van Tetrode (Delft c. 1525-1580 Westphalia), Rome or Florence, c. 1562-66 Cast: anonymous, Florence (?), c. 1560-1620 Écorché (flayed figure)Bronze, with warm brown organic patina, h. 43.5 cm; Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn (Leiden 1606-1669 Amsterdam)The Standard Bearer, 1636Oil on canvas, 120.5 x 97.5 cm, Signed and dated, lower left: Rembrandt f/1636; Maria van Oosterwijck (Nootdorp 1630-1693 Uitdam)Vanitas Still Life, c. 1675, Oil on canvas, 82 x 105 cm.
I am pleased to announce that Konsthistorisk Tidskrift/Journal of Art History has been granted the highest ranking in The Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals, Series and Publishers, which ...rates scholarly publishing channels around the world on a bibliometric scale from 0 to 2. 1 The journal is one of only 20 international journals on art history that has been acknowledged as a level 2 publication. The promotion to level 2 is testimony to the journal's position as a prominent publishing channel that reaches an international readership and acknowledges the journal as the leading peer-reviewed periodical on art history in the Nordic countries.
Japanische Holzschnitte (ukiyo-e) zählen heute zu den berühmtesten Kunstformen Ostasiens. Doch wie haben die Drucke aus der Edo-Zeit diesen Status erhalten? Als Ursprung für ihren Weltruhm wird ...häufig auf die Japonismus-Epoche Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts verwiesen. Dabei blenden Kunstwissenschaft und Museumswelt aus, dass die Drucke in den letzten siebzig Jahren vielfach präsentiert wurden. Marina Sammeck verfolgt, wie japanische Holzschnitte durch Ausstellungen und Allianzen zu einer der populärsten japanischen Kunstformen im Westen aufsteigen konnten. Im Mittelpunkt ihrer Analyse steht die Beschreibung des Prozesses, in dem spezifische Objekte zu »Kunst« werden - und was dieser für die zukünftige Ausstellungspraxis bedeutet.
A Chinese Bestiary presents a fascinating pageant of
mythical creatures from a unique and enduring cosmography written
in ancient China. The Guideways through Mountains and
Seas, compiled between the ...fourth and first centuries b.c.e.,
contains descriptions of hundreds of fantastic denizens of
mountains, rivers, islands, and seas, along with minerals, flora,
and medicine. The text also represents a wide range of beliefs held
by the ancient Chinese. Richard Strassberg brings the
Guideways to life for modern readers by weaving together
translations from the work itself with information from other texts
and recent archaeological finds to create a lavishly illustrated
guide to the imaginative world of early China. Unlike the
bestiaries of the late medieval period in Europe, the
Guideways was not interpreted allegorically; the strange
creatures described in it were regarded as actual entities found
throughout the landscape. The work was originally used as a sacred
geography, as a guidebook for travelers, and as a book of omens.
Today, it is regarded as the richest repository of ancient Chinese
mythology and shamanistic wisdom. The Guideways may have
been illustrated from the start, but the earliest surviving
illustrations are woodblock engravings from a rare 1597 edition.
Seventy-six of those plates are reproduced here for the first time,
and they provide a fine example of the Chinese engraver's art
during the late Ming dynasty. This beautiful volume, compiled by a
well-known specialist in the field, provides a fascinating window
on the thoughts and beliefs of an ancient people, and will delight
specialists and general readers alike.
Addendum
The Art bulletin (New York, N.Y.),
01/2021, Volume:
103, Issue:
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Journal Article
Peer reviewed
We recognize that the coeditors’ note for the issue published in September 2020 could have been misunderstood. Any equivalence between the movement of people and the movement of objects was never ...intended. We apologize if the note minimizes the horrors of human suffering. We remain steadfast in our commitment to diversity and inclusivity. And we continue to welcome and encourage the submissions that address race and art history.
How Mexican artists and intellectuals created a new
identity for modern Mexico City through its ties to Aztec
Tenochtitlan. After archaeologists rediscovered a corner
of the Templo Mayor in 1914, ...artists, intellectuals, and government
officials attempted to revive Tenochtitlan as an instrument for
reassessing Mexican national identity in the wake of the Revolution
of 1910. What followed was a conceptual excavation of the original
Mexica capital in relation to the transforming urban landscape of
modern Mexico City.
Revolutionary-era scholars took a renewed interest in sixteenth
century maps as they recognized an intersection between
Tenochtitlan and the foundation of a Spanish colonial settlement
directly over it. Meanwhile, Mexico City developed with modern
roads and expanded civic areas as agents of nationalism promoted
concepts like indigenismo, the embrace of Indigenous
cultural expressions. The promotion of artworks and new
architectural projects such as Diego Rivera's Anahuacalli Museum
helped to make real the notion of a modern Tenochtitlan. Employing
archival materials, newspaper reports, and art criticism from 1914
to 1964, Resurrecting Tenochtitlan connects art history
with urban studies to reveal the construction of a complex physical
and cultural layout for Mexico's modern capital.
Congo Style presents a postcolonial approach to discussing the visual culture of two now-notorious regimes: King Leopold II’s Congo Colony and the state sites of Mobutu Sese Seko’s totalitarian ...Zaïre. Readers are brought into the living remains of sites once made up of ambitious modernist architecture and art in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. From the total artworks of Art Nouveau to the aggrandizing sites of post-independence Kinshasa, Congo Style investigates the experiential qualities of man-made environments intended to entertain, delight, seduce, and impress. In her study of visual culture, Ruth Sacks sets out to reinstate the compelling wonder of nationalist architecture from Kinshasa’s post-independence era, such as the Tower of the Exchange (1974), Gécamines Tower (1977), and the artworks and exhibitions that accompanied them. While exploring post-independence nation-building, this book examines how the underlying ideology of Belgian Art Nouveau, a celebrated movement in Belgium, led to the dominating early colonial settler buildings of the ABC Hotels (circa 1908–13). Congo Style combines Sacks’s practice as a visual artist and her academic scholarship to provide an original study of early colonial and independence-era modernist sites in their African context.
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