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Aporia and the harmonious subject
Get PDFPaintings and prints in which the absence of an obvious narrative subject is combined with a sense of psychological intensity are among the most celebrated novelties of North Italian art around 1500. Images in which the “subject” appears to be music-making, such as Lorenzo Costa's Concert and Giorgione's Three Ages of Man, achieved widespread popularity as a part of that broader phenomenon. The vogue for these so-called concert pictures is usually explained in relation to either an assumed Venetian musical exceptionalism or an improbably subtle investment in the neo-Platonic philosophy of cosmic harmony. This chapter proposes a different, more straightforward approach. Harmony—understood in the period as disparate elements brought into rational concord—was used right across Italian culture c. 1500 as a ubiquitous metaphor for any system involving the proper arrangement of diversity. From the 1480s to the 1510s, a whole series of print publications applied this metaphor to different aspects of image-making, including perspective composition and coloring. For artists interested in looking beyond the narrative subject to new principles that might organize an image and give interior life to its protagonists, harnessing the metaphor of harmony must have seemed an obvious and promising strategy
Introduction
No full textAround 1500 music-making decisively entered the frame of Italian secular painting as a subject in its own right, no longer necessarily fixed within approximately realistic scenes of civic or private festivity, or within the viewing contexts traditionally associated with such imagery. Since at least the middle of the twentieth century, the suggestive alignments and juxtapositions to be found within this constellation of fascinating developments have captured the imaginations of musicologists and art historians, generating a rich vein of scholarship investigating relations between musical and visual media in the Renaissance. Toward the end of the fifteenth century, Italian sources pervasively describe a concept of harmony that is both essentially musical and broadly interdisciplinary. Across the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the rising prestige of musical practice and increasing presence of music as a self-consciously artful aspect of everyday life contributed to the development of a newly rich and varied material culture of music, which was particularly notable in domestic or “private” sphere
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
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