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Subject: Abstracts-Computers and the History of Art, Vol.4 Part 1
COMPUTERS AND THE HISTORY OF ART - ABSTRACTS
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VOLUME 4. PART 1 (published 1993)
Issue Editor: John Sunderland
Article Title:
"Computers and Medieval Art: the Case of the Princeton Index."
pp. 3-16
by Brendan Cassidy - Director of the Index of Christian Art,
Princeton University
Abstract:
This paper describes the Index of Christian Art at Princeton
University and provides an outline of the computerized database
that has been developed for the Index archive. The second part of
the paper focuses on three particular issues that complicate the
computerization project: 1. the fact that our area of special-
ization is medieval art, 2. that our main concern is with
iconogaphy, and 3. that the Index is an archive of images.
Article Title:
"Past 'Imprecision' for Future Standards: Computers and New Roads
to Knowledge." pp. 17-32
by Kim Veltman - Director, Perspective Unit, McLuhan Program,
University of Toronto, Canada
Abstract:
This paper maps out some of the dramatic consequences of the
electronic revolution that is changing our basic assumptions
about knowledge and culture. The new technologies are transform-
ing both the categories for and contents of knowledge. This is
changing our perceptions of culture and of the institutions which
contain and sustain it.
Article Title:
"Teaching Databasing to Art History Students." pp.33-39
by Paul Stirton - Lecturer in the History of Art, University of
Glasgow
Abstract:
This paper outlines the aims and methods of a short introductory
course on databasing which is offered to junior honours students
in the History of Art Department at Glasgow University. Under the
guidance of CTICH (The Computers in Teaching Initiative Centre
for History with Archaeology and Art History), the course adopted
the format of other undergraduate courses developed for his-
torians using the Paradox v3.5 database package. Data for the
course was derived from the published records of the Norwich
Society of Artists. The paper will also suggest ways in which
databasing might be used to develop new areas of teaching and
research in the History of Art.
Article Title:
"Recent Developments in the Use of Computers in Art and Design in
Schools." pp. 41-43
by Alan Treherne - Advisory Teacher for Art and Design in
Schools, Leicestershire Local Education Authority
Abstract:
This paper reflects on some of the advances made in educational
computing over the last decade. Many of the early limitations
resulting from fairly unsophisticated hardware and software for
schools have now diminished and recent introductions such as CD-
ROM, video digitisers and image scanners have opened up many new
avenues in creative art work and the study of art history. What
is now required to capitalise on this technical progess is
sustained in-service training of teachers to help them realise
the enormous potential of the new technology.
Article Title:
"Desktop Animation: Enter the Dragon." pp. 45-48
by Steve Roberts - Senior Professional and Technology Officer,
Science Museum, London
Abstract:
The more powerful and feature-packed the software, the harder it
is for programmers to act with restraint. This paper outlines
some of the pitfalls that can trap the unwary as well as giving
some examples of good Graphical User Interfaces (GUI's) and
intelligent desktop animation practice.
Article Title:
"CD-ROM Publishing: A Publisher's Perspective." pp.49-53
by Ian Jacobs - Director of the Macmillan (Publishers Ltd) Dic-
tionary of Art
This article is based on the Paper delivered at the December 1991
CHArt Conference, although it has been updated in the light of
developments since then. An analysis and evaluation is made of
the CD-ROM market in publishing with particular focus on large
works of reference.
Article Title:
"Electronic Publishing and Research in Art History." pp. 55-63
by Margo Kabel - Computer Specialist at the National Portrait
Gallery, Washington DC
Abstract:
Recent advances in computer technologies have the potential to
greatly facilitate the study of the arts and humanities. Software
available now allows both researchers and the public to access
via computer a new kind of publication, that may include not only
text, but also images, audio and full motion video. The most pop-
ular medium used to distribute these electronic publications is
the CD-ROM. This paper discusses how CD-ROM publications are dif-
ferent from both printed publications and traditional automated
databases, using the CD-ROM of the National Portrait Gallery
Permanent Collection of Notable Americans as an example.
Article Title:
"Conservation and Computers: A Reconstruction of Inigo Jones's
Original Whitehall Banqueting House, London c.1620." pp.65-69
by Vaughan Hart, Alan Day and David Cook - Centre for Advanced
Studies in Architecture at the University of Bath, UK
Abstract:
In this short paper a photogrammetric survey of Inigo Jones's
Banqueting House, Whitehall, London and computer-aided design
software (CAD) is used to visualise the original Banqueting
House, prior to alteration. This points out the potential of CAD
for building conservation in general, and for reconstruction by
historians of ruined or recorded buildings.
Article Title:
"Semantic Structures: Building an Art-Historical Relational Data-
base." pp. 71-74
by Hugh Marles - Senior Slide Librarian and Computer Officer,
Staffordshire University, UK
Abstract:
This paper describes the development and implementation of a com-
puter application to catalogue and provide access to a large
slide collection on the history of art and design, using the 4th
Dimension relational database system for Macintoshes. 4th Dimen-
sion allows for the creation of relational structures common to
advanced database packages of this type. This paper considers how
these structures may be utilised in the history of art subject
area, and suggests that the strength of relational databases in
this field lies with their flexibility. At the risk of appearing
to be simplistic, the paper seeks to evade technical specificity
and aims to discuss the principles of application building in
this field of knowledge. Although the development of the database
application under discussion cannot claim to have been an espe-
cially innovative project, the progess made does illustrate the
potential of the inexpensive software packages which are now com-
mercially available.
Article Title:
"The Anatomy of a Profession: Architects in Palestine during the
British Mandate." pp. 75-85
by Gilbert Herbert and Ita Heinze-Greenberg - Architectural
Heritage Research Centre Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
Abstract:
This article is a statistical study of the profession of the
architect in Palestine during the British Mandate in the 1920s
and 1930s. The study is based on data collected by the Documenta-
tion Unit of the Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning at the
Technion: Israel Institute of Technology. The database records
595 people who lived in Palestine and worked there as architects.
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