Tool Trouble: Network and Spatial Methods in Art History

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

Transcript

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
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9. @matthewdlincoln
   Network
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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
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    1550 1600 1650 1700 1750
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12. 1650
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    −10 0 10 20
    Population (tens of thousands)
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    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
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    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
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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)
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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.
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22. Matthew Lincoln
    matthewlincoln.net
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