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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450316403321

Titolo

Computers and the history of art [[electronic resource] ] : a subject in transition / / edited by Anna Bentkowska-Kafel, Trish Cashen and Hazel Gardiner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bristol ; ; Portland Or., : Intellect, 2005

ISBN

1-280-47696-6

9786610476961

1-84150-910-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (136 p.)

Collana

Digital art history ; ; v.1

Altri autori (Persone)

Bentkowska-KafelAnna

CashenTrish

GardinerHazel

Disciplina

776'.09

Soggetti

Art - Data processing

Computer art

Digital art - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Inlcudes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Pages; Table of Contents; Contributors; Introduction: Digital Art History?; History of Art in the Digital Age: Problems and Possibilities; Animating Art History: Digital Ways of Studying Colour in Abstract Art; The Cathedral as a Virtual Encyclopaedia: Reconstructing the 'Texts' of Chartres Cathedral; With Camera to India, Iran and Afghanistan: Access to Multimedia Sources of Explorer, Professor Dr Morgenstierne (1892-1975); Towards a Yet Newer Laocoon. Or, What We Can Learn from Interacting with Computer Games; Digital Arts On (the) Line

Bringing Pictorial Space to Life: Computer Techniques for the Analysis of PaintingsEnhancing a Historical Digital Art Collection: Evaluation of Content-Based Image Retrieval on Collage; Abstracts; CHArt - Computers and the History of Art; Guidelines for Submitting Papers for the CHArt Yearbook

Sommario/riassunto

This book looks at the transformation that Art and Art history is



undergoing through engagement with the digital revolution. Since its initiation in 1985, CHArt (Computers and the History of Art) has set out to promote interaction between the rapidly developing new Information Technology and the study and practice of Art. It has become increasingly clear in recent years that this interaction has led, not just to the provision of new tools for the carrying out of existing practices, but to the evolution of unprecedented activities and modes of thought. This collection of papers represents the v