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Introduction
Get PDFIntroduction to the issue “Italianicity is not Italy”. Questioning Contemporary Italian Art History.Introduzione al fascicolo “Italianicity is not Italy”. Questioning Contemporary Italian Art History
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Figure as Model: The Early Work of Michelangelo Pistoletto, 1956–1966
Get PDFIn modern and contemporary art history, figuration has been characterized as propagandistic, anti-modernist, and invalid as a strategy for progressive creative practice in the twentieth century. This reading is especially well-supported by the history of postwar Italian art, largely defined by politicized cultural debates that set realism, primarily manifest in figurative painting, in conflict with abstraction, which ultimately emerged as the dominant form of vanguard Italian art post-Reconstruction. While scholarship has focused on abstraction’s importance for key developments in postwar and contemporary Italian art, the continued history of figuration, from neorealismo to the Transavanguardia, remains largely unattended.This dissertation revises the understudied history of figuration in postwar Italian art and the politicized historiography against it. The work of Italian artist Michelangelo Pistoletto, a central player within the European avant-gardes of the 1960s best known for his association with Arte Povera, is used as a case study. Background discussion of the artist’s early figurative paintings, design work, and writings from the late 1950s and early 1960s, some addressed here for the first time, frames close study of three bodies of later work to demonstrate how Pistoletto negotiated conventional figuration as a problem for postwar Italian art by remaking the figurative strategy into a figural one that straddles realism and reality. Chapter One, “Reality as Realism: The Plexiglasses, 1964,” addresses a set of plexiglass structures and assemblages, which presents imagistic elements as real, everyday objects in the space of the viewer. Chapter Two, “Cold Images: The Protest Pictures, 1965,” calls attention to a little-known series of highly polished, steel “mirror paintings,” collaged with life-size figures sourced from photographs of Italian protests. Chapter Three, “Poor Designs: The Minus Objects, 1965–1966,” re-examines a collection of design-inspired objects in relation to a “figural turn” in postwar Italian advertising.Using formal, semiotic, and social art historical analysis supported by extensive archival and field research conducted in Italy, France, and the United States, this dissertation situates Pistoletto’s “conceptual figuration” within the politicized national and transatlantic context of postwar Italian art. Building upon post-structuralist and art historical theories of “the figural,” it finds in Pistoletto’s practice a new model of postwar avant-gardism motivated by a strategic reworking of figuration. It also identifies a new politicized language of figuration for art history as one of increased economic and political agency for 1960s leftist subjects
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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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