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Tool Trouble: Network and Spatial Methods in Art History

Matthew Lincoln
February 01, 2016

Tool Trouble: Network and Spatial Methods in Art History

Paper given at the 2016 meeting of the College Art Association in Washington, DC

Matthew Lincoln

February 01, 2016
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  1. TOOL TROUBLE
    Network and Spatial Methods
    for Art History
    Matthew Lincoln
    University of Maryland
    @matthewdlincoln
    College Art Association 2016

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  2. What happens next?
    @matthewdlincoln
    (Image source: @batlabels, 9 December 2015)

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  3. Alfred H. Barr, Jr., “Diagram of
    Stylistic Evolution from 1830 until
    1935”, in Cubism and Abstract Art
    [1936], reprint (New York: Museum
    of Modern Art, 1966)
    @matthewdlincoln

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  4. John Frederick Padgett and Walter W. Powell,
    “The Problem of Emergence,” in
    The Emergence of Organizations and Markets,
    (Princeton University Press, 2012), 6.
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  5. Publisher
    Designer
    Engraver
    “Sculptura in Æs”, from Johannes Stradanus’ Nova
    Reperta. Published by Philips Galle, c. 1588-1605.
    British Museum, London.

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  6. @matthewdlincoln

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  7. @matthewdlincoln
    A Gephi mess
    (don’t do this!)

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  8. @matthewdlincoln
    Complete graph
    1615
    1630
    1640 1640
    1670
    1680
    1619




    ● ●
    A
    1550−1620
    B
    1590−1645
    C
    1606−1660
    D
    1620−1675
    E
    1656−1700
    F
    1678−1730
    1610−1620
    1615
    1619



    ● A
    1550−1620
    B
    1590−1645
    C
    1606−1660
    D
    1620−1675
    1630−1640
    1630
    1640 1640



    B
    1590−1645
    C
    1606−1660
    D
    1620−1675
    1670−1680
    1670
    1680

    ● ●
    D
    1620−1675
    E
    1656−1700
    F
    1678−1730

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  9. @matthewdlincoln
    Network
    centralization














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    0.93 – highly
    centralized
    0.53 – somewhat
    centralized
    0 – perfectly even

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  10. @matthewdlincoln
    Group Assortativity
    100% internal
    58% internal
    67% external
    100% external




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  11. centrality
    nodes
    edges
    0.00
    0.05
    0.10
    0.15
    0.20
    0
    100
    200
    300
    400
    0
    100
    200
    300
    1550 1600 1650 1700 1750
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  12. 1650
    40
    45
    50
    55
    −10 0 10 20
    Population (tens of thousands)
    0
    100
    200
    300
    400
    region
    British Isles
    France
    Germany
    Iberia
    Italy
    Poland
    Scandinavia
    The Low Countries
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    Matthew Lincoln after Jan De Vries 1984 (2015) europop: Historical Populations of European Cities, 1500-1800 R package version 0.1

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  13. 0.00
    0.25
    0.50
    0.75
    1.00
    1500 1600 1700 1800
    Share of Urban Population
    region
    British Isles
    France
    Germany
    Iberia
    Italy
    Poland
    Scandinavia
    The Low Countries
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  14. Image source: Saul Steinberg, “View of the World from 9th Avenue”, The New Yorker, 29 March 1976
    @matthewdlincoln

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  15. @matthewdlincoln
    Walter Scheidel and Elijah Meeks, ORBIS: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World

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  16. @matthewdlincoln
    Walter Scheidel and Elijah Meeks, ORBIS: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World

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  17. @matthewdlincoln
    Walter Scheidel and Elijah Meeks, ORBIS: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World

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  18. Image source: ORBIS Working pape, orbis.stanford.edu/assets/Scheidel_64.pdf
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  19. RStudio Integrated Development Environment (author’s laptop)
    @matthewdlincoln

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  20. @matthewdlincoln
    1.  Maps and networks aren’t
    tools; they are methods.

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  21. 1.  Maps and networks aren’t
    tools; they are methods.
    2.  This requires faculty
    investment.
    @matthewdlincoln

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  22. Matthew Lincoln
    matthewlincoln.net
    @matthewdlincoln

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