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‘Field notes: contemporary art history as historiography’. Review of: Terry Smith, Art to Come: Histories of Contemporary Art, Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2019, 456 pp., 84 b. & w. illus., £92.00 hdbk, £25.99 pbk ISBN 9781478001942
Full text linkTerry Smith characterizes Art to Come as a work of art historiography. The eleven chapters that comprise Art to Come–including several previously published essays by Smith–are primarily concerned with describing and analyzing art produced in the past few decades. This review takes up Smith’s invitation to understand Art to Come as historiography and argues that the book is a model for a mode of art writing that is simultaneously art historical and historiographical
‘Changing images: reciprocity between nineteenth-century paintings conservation and art history’. Review of: Matthew Hayes, The Renaissance Restored. Paintings Conservation and the Birth of Modern Art History in nineteenth-century Europe, Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, 2021, 208 pp., USD 65,00, ISBN 9781606066966 (paperback)
Full text linkMatthew Hayes’ volume examines the influence of nineteenth-century scholarship on the activities of contemporary paintings restorers, and, vice-versa, investigates how the visual effects of conservation treatments impacted contemporary scholarship. This reciprocal relationship is explored in four case studies, two situated in Italy (Giottesque frescoes and paintings by Titian), on in the United Kingdom (National Gallery London) and one in Germany (the Berlin museums). Hayes focuses on the treatment of paintings from the Renaissance, a period that knew strong interest from nineteenth-century scholars. He weaves together historical archival material (personal notes, correspondence, restoration records, historical photographs, etc.) and period texts (a.o. by Jacob Burckhardt, G.B. Cavalcaselle, Joseph Crowe), into a rich and accessible account, interspersed with examples of historical restoration treatments of well-known paintings and with restorer biographies. The resulting volume provides an entertaining and very accessible entry into the topic, whether the reader comes from (art) history or has a background in conservation
Glossary of acronyms used in Digital Humanities
Full text linkA glossary of acronyms used in Digital Humanities compiled by the organizer and contributors to a conference on the subject held at the Università degli studi dell’Aquila in the summer of 2022
Approaching Digital Humanities at university: A cultural challenge
Full text linkThe University of Bologna has a long tradition in Digital Humanities, both at the level of research and teaching. This article presents some experiences in developing new educational models based on the idea of transversal learning, collaborative approaches and project-oriented outputs, together with the definition of research fields within this vast domain, accompanied by practical examples. The creation of an international master’s degree (DHDK), a PhD programme (CHeDE) and a research centre (/DH.arc) are the results of refining the notion of the DH in a new bidirectional way: to reflect on computational methodologies and models in the cultural sphere and to suggest a cultural approach to Information Technology (IT)
Analysing Urban Dynamics in Historic Settlements Using a Geo-Spatial Infrastructure. The Venice’s Nissology project
Full text linkThis paper presents the ERC StG project Venice’s Nissology (VeNiss), a semantic geo-spatial web infrastructure for reconstructing over five-centuries of transformations of Venice’s lagoon islands, alongside their interwoven relationships in a geographically- and temporally-based digital environment. VeNiss constitutes the first analytical methodology for investigating, interpreting, and visualising, through computational media, the connective dynamics of centre-periphery relations in historic settlements, with specific reference to archipelagoes. Through a transdisciplinary approach, which combines history, architecture, art history, social studies, and advanced digital technologies the research infrastructure enables the intersection of historical data with georeferenced maps, 2D reconstructions, and 3D interoperable models to express the urban processes that shaped the lagoon city from the sixteenth century
Representing change: User interaction and data modelling of an identity paradox
Full text linkHistorical data are challenging to represent, and this is especially true for objects whose identity undergoes several changes – physical and functional – over time, such as historic buildings. In the context of the VeNiss project, we introduce a technical conceptualisation of the philosophical problem of identity over time through the lens of the Cidoc-CRM, providing an outline of a data model and a UX/UI solution, both adopted to represent knowledge about the nuanced historical changes of buildings over time
Quantifying the impact of clean air policy interventions for air quality management
Full text linkRising environmental concerns require the implementation of appropriate policies to manage environmental risk. One such risk arises from air pollution. As part of the process of air quality management it is important to understand how effective different policies are to determine whether a policy should be, for example, scrapped, changed, or rolled out across different sectors or regions. However, evaluating clean air policies is a challenge because of the complex physical and chemical processes in the atmosphere and other socioeconomic factors that may also be impacting pollution levels. This briefing document outlines a methodological approach that can be used to provide evidence of the success or otherwise of different clean air policies for different geographical areas and time periods
Warhol in French
Full text linkTo translate is like playing a violin: more or less off-key, but always off-key. To examine the translations of Warhol—of his words and film images—is to see in evidence an effort, conscious or otherwise, to water down the power of these words and images, to bring them into a normativity that they exceed. It is to follow the moment in which a culture digests, for better and worse, what nourishes its body
Non-Exhaust Emissions from Road Transport - Policy Briefing Note produced by the TRANSITION Clean Air Network
Full text linkNon-exhaust emissions (e.g., brake, tyre and road surface wear) remain largely unregulated in the UK. This briefing note considers what we do and don’t know about non-exhaust emissions, why they are important, how they may respond to future changes, and how we can reduce their impacts.
The TRANSITION Clean Air Network is a UK-wide network, led by the University of Birmingham in collaboration with nine universities and over 20 cross-sector partners, aiming to optimise the air quality and health outcomes of transport decarbonisation; it is funded by UKRI via the UK Clean Air Strategic Priorities Fund, administered by NERC [NE/V002449/1]
COP-AQ - The UK-China Collaboration to Optimise Net Zero Policy options for Air Quality and Health
Full text linkClean Air policies in the UK and China have substantially improved air quality in recent years. However, reaching the new WHO guidelines on air pollution exposure to protect health remains a major challenge in both countries. Ambitious climate policies have already delivered significant co-benefits to air quality in the past. Future net zero or carbon neutrality policies may offer opportunities to contribute to improved air quality towards meeting the WHO guidelines. However, some climate policies have potentially negative impacts on air quality
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