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The Digital Humanities Unveiled
On 21, Dec 2015 | In Picturebooks | By Chris Vitale
Spratt, Emily L. “The Digital Humanities Unveiled: Perceptions Held by Art Historians and Computer Scientists about Computer Vision Technology” (Self Published).
Referrer: Scott Dexter
Categories: digital humanities, distant reading, data mining, computer vision, art, art history, computer science, methodology
Annotation:
This paper outlines a survey completed by both art historians and computer scientists in relation to a computers ability to interpret aesthetic and beauty. The value of this work lies in the responses of this survey. Computer vision is rapidly becoming a more accepted and accessible method of examining art. For art historians and computer scientists, the implications are obvious. This digital humanities project used, “twenty-one questions for art historians and sixteen for computer scientists that were intended to shed light on field members’ knowledge of the capabilities and applications of computer vision technology, attitudes and perceptions about the use of it, and reactions to the meaning of this type of digitization in the humanities.” Spratt discusses the positive and negative reactions to computer vision’s ability to detect and automatically recognize aesthetic experiences of beauty. Channeling philosophy, Spratt defines what these variables mean for her survey.
Toward Automated Discovery of Artistic Influence
On 21, Dec 2015 | In Picturebooks | By Chris Vitale
Saleh, Babak, Kanako Abe, Ravneet Singh Arora, and Ahmed Elgammal. “Toward Automated Discovery of Artistic Influence.” Multimed Tools Appl Multimedia Tools and Applications (2014). Web.
Referrer: Scott Dexter
Categories: digital humanities, distant reading, data mining, computer vision, art, art history, computer science
Annotation:
A team from the Department of Computer Science at Rutgers experimented with art and computer vision in 2014. Using advanced computer driven recognition of images, the team was able to explore the influence of other artists on particular pieces of art. The study was focused on two types of computational inquiry: “discriminative vs. generative models” as well as feature extraction and comparison. The importance of this work is the argument that computers have a, to a certain degree, level of ability in recognizing the influence of other artists in multiple works of art. The work of a Art Historian is arguably completed by an automated process that involves computer vision and classification. The high level computer algorithms are paired with art history style analysis of the paintings similarity to compare the traditional and novel methodologies. This paper is a valuable source of tools and methods for computer vision in illustrations.
‘Everything Comes from Seeing Things’: Narrative and Illustrative Play in Black and White.
On 20, Dec 2015 | In Picturebooks | By Chris Vitale
Pantaleo, Sylvia J. “‘Everything Comes from Seeing Things’: Narrative and Illustrative Play in Black and White.” Children’s Literature in Education 38.1 (Mar. 2007): 45–58.
Referrer: Carrie Hintz
Categories: picturebook, visual storytelling, art, illustration, text/image relationship, color codes, Black and White, postmodernism, deconstruction
Annotation:
Pantaleo acknowledges Macaulay’s use of play as a means to interact with readers. The use of this motif is a catalyst in drawing out the readers interest and ability to reason with an otherwise challengingly deconstructed narrative. The importance of reading with literary and artistic codes in mind is a key element of this article. The article goes into depth exploring student reactions and their suggestions for reading. Illustrations are given equal attention to text in Pantaleo’s study of play in Black and White. From specific imagery to the use of color, illustrations are particularly import in this type of metafiction, as Pantaleo points out.
‘Wait a Second . . .’: Negotiating Complex Narratives in Black and White.
On 20, Dec 2015 | In Picturebooks | By Chris Vitale
McClay, Jill Kedersha. “‘Wait a Second . . .’: Negotiating Complex Narratives in Black and White.” Children’s Literature in Education 31.2 (June 2000): 91–106.
Referrer: Carrie Hintz
Categories: picturebook, visual storytelling, art, illustration, text/image relationship, color codes, Black and White, postmodernism, deconstruction
Annotation:
Exploring the impact of postmodern fiction on children’s literature and in effect their realities, McClay reads Macaulay’s Black and White. The postmodern picture book is a special case that seeks to break the boundaries set up by traditional examples. Visual and textual information is particularly important in this genre of literature. The words and pictures are assigned explicitly and equally important value on the title page which asserts a warning. McClay points out that both the textual narrative and the stylization of the art within the text work within a constantly intermingling quadruple parallel. The effect of this diversified deconstruction of picture book norms is a variety of positive and negative readings based on space and narration. The value of the visuals in juxtaposition to the textual narrative is clearly pinpointed in this article.
Read All Over
On 20, Dec 2015 | In Picturebooks | By Chris Vitale
Kaplan, Deborah. “Read All Over: Postmodern Resolution in Macaulay’s Black and White.” Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 28.1 (Spring 2003): 37–41.
Referrer: Carrie Hintz
Categories: picturebook, visual storytelling, art, illustration, text/image relationship, color codes, Black and White, postmodernism
Annotation:
Kaplan explores the narrative techniques found in David Macaulay’s award winning picture book Black and White. Kaplan points out that “Layout, text, narrative, and color are all used in non-conventional ways.” Breaking the codified nature of color codes in picture books, Kaplan points out that Macaulay is able to add complexity to his narrative. The text is also juxtaposed to other texts that do similar work such as Nothing but the Truth and A Pale View of Hills. The deconstructive nature of Black and White, as well as these other texts, allows an insertion of meaning into the narrative that challenges what reader’s have come to expect and understand from the experience of a picture book.
Weaving Words and Pictures
On 20, Dec 2015 | In Uncategorized | By Chris Vitale
Desai, Christina M. “Weaving Words and Pictures: Allen Say and the Art of Illustration.” The Lion and the Unicorn 28.3 (Sept. 2004): 408–28.
Referrer: Carrie Hintz
Categories: picturebook, visual storytelling, art, illustration, graphic art, text/image relationship, perspective, meaning
Annotation:
In an effort to position the study of illustrations found in children’s literature as a legitimate element for inquiry, Desai explores a handful of fictional works. To explore the subtleties of illustration, Desai examines three books illustrated by Allen Say: Dianne Snyder’s The Boy of the Three-Year Nap (1988), and Say’s El Chino (1990) and Emma’s Rug (1996). The relationship between text and illustration is read through its work as visual narrative, illustrated cues, as well as perspective and meaning. Graphic art is shown to be a central driving force and fundamentally necessary element of the story in illustrated picture books.
