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Kunst als gunst? Een onderzoek naar de motieven en belangen die een rol speelden in de mecenaatsrelatie tussen mecenas Han Nefkens en museumdirecteur Sjarel Ex
No full textThis master thesis aims on researching the motives and interests that play a role in the patronage relationship of Han Nefkens and Sjarel Ex, during the years 2000 until 2011. The primary section of this thesis focuses on the theoretical framework, which forms the basis of this research. The first half
of the theoretical framework sets out to gain an appropriate understanding of the patronage
relationship by defining the principles of the role of patronage within the Dutch cultural field.
Subsequently several social aspects of patronage are taken into account, which are explained with Bourdieu’s field theory and his ideas about the exchange of capital and power, Komter’s gift theory that explains six motives for giving, and Bekkers’ and Wiepkings research that explains eight mechanisms that mainly drive charitable giving. Together these theories give insight in the motives and interests of the patronage relationship between Han Nefkens and Sjarel Ex.
The case study, which is presented in the secondary section of this thesis, describes the patronage relationship in two periods, the Centraal Museum period (2000-2004) and the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen period (2004-2011). From both periods five moments are analyzed that were decisive for the relationship. The results of this analysis shows that Han Nefkens had several motives in both periods, although occurring in different quantities in the second period. These motives were power, prestige, positive feelings, self-interestedness, reciprocity and equality, and
uncertainty. Furthermore, Nefkens’ benefit from this relationship was the exchange of economic capital for social, cultural and symbolic capital, which would be used to gain power within the cultural field. This could be useful to further develop himself as an initiator and co-creator of artworks. In the case of Sjarel Ex, reciprocity and equality, and self-interest as motives led to the initiation of the patronage relationship. These motives remained of importance in the second period of the patronage; however, Ex also used power, prestige, and positive feelings as motives. He had his own intentions for initiating this relationship with Nefkens, namely, to investigate whether a structural bond with a patron, would be useful for his museum and himself. Ex aimed for economical capital to increase the museum’s budget. Later, he needed Nefkens help to maintain the good reputation of Museum Boijmans van Beuningen after it experienced several setbacks. Nefkens’ support served as an example to potential sponsors. In addition, both parties had the well-being of the museums in mind as well as their own. This mix of underlying motives of the patronage ultimately ensured the investment of both parties in this patronage relationship
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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