Andrea Mantegna: Making Art (History). Stephen J. Campbell and Jérémie Koering, eds. Art History. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2015. 230 pp. $39.95.

2017 ◽  
Vol 70 (3) ◽  
pp. 1057-1059
Author(s):  
Henrike Christiane Lange
Keyword(s):  
Art History ◽  
Andrea Mantegna ◽  
Making Art

scholarly journals Art, Creativity, and the Potential of Artificial Intelligence

Arts ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marian Mazzone ◽  
Ahmed Elgammal
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Computer Science ◽  
Contemporary Art ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Art History ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Style Analysis ◽  
Art Making ◽  
Making Art

Our essay discusses an AI process developed for making art (AICAN), and the issues AI creativity raises for understanding art and artists in the 21st century. Backed by our training in computer science (Elgammal) and art history (Mazzone), we argue for the consideration of AICAN’s works as art, relate AICAN works to the contemporary art context, and urge a reconsideration of how we might define human and machine creativity. Our work in developing AI processes for art making, style analysis, and detecting large-scale style patterns in art history has led us to carefully consider the history and dynamics of human art-making and to examine how those patterns can be modeled and taught to the machine. We advocate for a connection between machine creativity and art broadly defined as parallel to but not in conflict with human artists and their emotional and social intentions of art making. Rather, we urge a partnership between human and machine creativity when called for, seeing in this collaboration a means to maximize both partners’ creative strengths.

scholarly journals Lukianos és Kallistratos műtárgyleírásai: szöveg és hagyomány

2018 ◽  
pp. 21-40
Author(s):  
Attila Hajdú
Keyword(s):  
Art History ◽  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Main Part ◽  
Second Sophistic ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
Greek Sculpture ◽  
Making Art

Lucian of Samosata’s descriptions of works of art are invaluable for the studying of the Classical and post-Classical Greek sculpture. The Second Sophistic author does not only give accurate and detailed descriptions about Greek sculptures and paintings, but as a real connoisseur of art he also judges them from the perspective of aesthetics. In the first main part of my paper, I will focus on the characteristics of his descriptions by analyzing the nude figure of Aphrodite of Cnidus made by Praxiteles and the ‘eclectic’ portrait of Panthea. The aim of the second part of my paper is to present the essential features of Ekphraseis of the sophist Callistratus who lived in Late Antiquity (IV–Vth century AD). It has been disputed if Callistratus’ work inspired by the rhetorical exercises has any art history values. This paper also raises the question how the tradition of both Lucian and Callistratus could influence the description of the sculpture ‘Apollo Belvedere’ included in Winckelmann's epoch-making Art History.

Modes of Making Art History

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Bremer
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Art History ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
Art Historians ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
Making Art

As art history further questions its fundamentals, the exhibition format continues to lose its neutrality. In the preface to the second volume of his compendium, Biennials and Beyond – Exhibitions that made art history: 1962–2002, Bruce Altshuler leads the increasing interest by art historians for exhibitions back to the insight that “exhibitions bring together a range of characters, who, exercising varied intentions in diverse circumstances, generate so much of what comes down to us as art history.”[1] However, the academic rewriting of selected shows is itself subjected to norms which, given their canonizing effects, must be taken into consideration. This article does not intend to question the art historical study of exhibitions tout court. Rather, it criticizes the selection of case studies according to a logic of masterpieces while excluding exhibitions which are regarded as not having made art history. In fact, the different modes by which exhibitions can shape art history require further analysis, eventually casting new light on events which have not hitherto entered the canon of relevant shows.

Making Art History

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Mansfield
Keyword(s):  
Art History ◽  
Making Art
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