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From: Ellen Prokop <noreply@nycdh.org>
Date: Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 11:05 AM
Subject: Ellen Prokop started the topic Upcoming lecture on Digital Art
History at The Frick Collection in the forum NYCDH Announcements [NYC
Digital Humanities]
Ellen Prokop started the topic Upcoming lecture on Digital Art History at
The Frick Collection in the forum NYCDH Announcements
“”Painting Province: A Statistical Analysis of Rural Imagery in
Nineteenth-Century French Painting”
Diana Greenwald, Research Assistant, Institute of New Economic Thinking at
the Oxford Martin School and D.Phil Candidate in Economic and Social
History at Wadham College, University of Oxford
Thursday, October 27, 2016
Throughout the nineteenth century, urbanization and industrialization were
modernizing France’s socio-economic landscape; meanwhile, both the subject
matter and style of French art were rapidly changing. Featured among these
artistic changes was the growing prominence of landscape and rural genre
painting. Scholars have argued that the socio-economic changes caused the
artistic ones—that as French populations became more urban, they demanded
more images of nature. Using statistical methods and a previously untapped
dataset (an unpublished subject index to the roughly 134,000 paintings
displayed at the Paris Salon between 1791 and 1881) this talk examines
whether or not the production of natural imagery in art can be
systematically linked to urbanization and industrialization.
All lectures are held from 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. in the Music Room of The
Frick Collection. They are free and open to the public, but registration is
required. To register, please contact dahlprograms@frick.org.”
