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Alessandro Contini Bonacossi
No full textScheda del collezionista e mercante Alessandro Contini Bonacoss
Alessandro Contini Bonacossi, antiquario (1878-1955): the art market and cultural philanthropy in the formation of American museums
Full text linkThis thesis aims to document and discuss the role and legacy of the Italian antiquario
Alessandro Contini Bonacossi (1878-1955) in the international secondary art market
for Old Master paintings during the first half of the twentieth century. Grounded in
the discovery of primary archival evidence and set against the major historical events
that unfolded during his lifetime, this work presents its findings by following a
research process adopted to answer the following research questions: who was
Contini Bonacossi, what was his business network (where was he buying paintings,
at what prices, and who were his clients), what was his modus operandi for selling
and marketing his work, and what is his legacy. To answer these questions, I made
extensive use of primary sources, the vast majority of which are unpublished or have
never been used before in this context, framed by a contextualized analysis of their
historical background. The archival investigation has brought to light, for the first
time, documentary evidence of Contini Bonacossi’s transactions and business ties
with other European dealers such as Duveen Brothers, Heinemann Galleries, Colin
Agnew, Colnaghi, Böhler, Steinmeyer, and Kleinberger Galleries; with scholars such
as Wilhelm von Bode, Roberto Longhi, and Bernard Berenson; as well as previously
unknown connections Contini Bonacossi had with members of the Harvard museum
community and the Boston cultural elite such as Paul Sachs (1878-1965), Edward W.
Forbes (1873-1969) Denmann Ross (1853-1935); and offers new details regarding
his relationship with the Kress Brothers, their gifts of artworks to the new National
Gallery of Art in Washington DC, and the Kress Foundation’s Regional Program that
endowed museums across the US. Ultimately, this work adds to our knowledge
important sources for the study of the history of private and public collecting during
its crucial years in the formation of American museums. More broadly, in
documenting Contini Bonacossi’s case, this study strives to rethink the role of art
dealers, to look at them not solely as market professionals engaged in the dynamics
of supply, demand and profit, but first and foremost as bearers and sellers of culture,
whose activities were fully embedded in the socio-political environment of their time
and so to acknowledge and extend knowledge about their active role in the
international dissemination and interpretation of cultural heritage
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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