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Computational Formalism Art History and Machine Learning

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    9780262545648

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  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2023-05-23
  • Publisher: The MIT Press

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Summary

How the use of machine learning to analyze art images has revived formalism in art history, presenting a golden opportunity for art historians and computer scientists to learn from one another.

Though formalism is an essential tool for art historians, much recent art history has focused on the social and political aspects of art. But now art historians are adopting machine learning methods to develop new ways to analyze the purely visual in datasets of art images. Amanda Wasielewski uses the term “computational formalism” to describe this use of machine learning and computer vision technique in art historical research. At the same time that art historians are analyzing art images in new ways, computer scientists are using art images for experiments in machine learning and computer vision. Their research, says Wasielewski, would be greatly enriched by the inclusion of humanistic issues.
The main purpose in applying computational techniques such as machine learning to art datasets is to automate the process of categorization using metrics such as style, a historically fraught concept in art history. After examining a fifteen-year trajectory in image categorization and art dataset creation in the fields of machine learning and computer vision, Wasielewski considers deep learning techniques that both create and detect forgeries and fakes in art. She investigates examples of art historical analysis in the fields of computer and information sciences, placing this research in the context of art historiography. She also raises  questions as which artworks are chosen for digitization, and of those artworks that are born digital, which works gain acceptance into the canon of high art.

Author Biography

Amanda Wasielewski is Researcher/Lecturer in Art History at Stockholm University. She is the author of Made in Brooklyn: Artists, Hipsters, Makers, Gentrifiers and From City Space to Cyberspace: Art, Squatting, and Internet Culture in the Netherlands.

Table of Contents

Series Foreword ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: Return to Form 1
Machine Learning and Computer Vision 3
The New Science Wars 11
Digital Art History 16
Objectivity and Cultural Studies 22
Art History and Objectivity 25
Computational Formalism 30
Questions of Style 34
1 The Shape of Data 39
Digitization and Dataset Creation 42
The Semantic Gap 49
Artificial ArtHistorian 51
Image Selection 60
Image Categorization 67
Stylistic Determinism 75
Style Unsupervised 79
Stylistic Devices 84
2 Deep Connoisseurship 87
Cat, Dog, or Virgin Mary? 92
Value, Fame, and the Artist's Hand 95
Opening the Black Box 101
The Business of Authenticity 107
Next-Level Forgeries and Fakes 115
An Artificial Artist? 119
Poor Images 124
3 Conclusion: Man, Machine, Metaphor 127
The Rise of the Humanities Lab 133
Foreign Metaphors as Interdisciplinary Tool 135
Appendix: Classification by Artistic Style, Publications in Computer Science, 2005-2021, Including the Development and Utilization of Fine Art Datasets 139
Notes 145
Index 177

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