may 28, 2012 - 20. 'Déjà-vu?' or complex networks in art history

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Staatliche Kunsthalle in Karlsruhe (DE) features an exhibition with an intriguing title: 'Déjà-vu? Die Kunst der Wiederholung von Dürer bis YouTube' . This exhibition (1), about the comparison between 'original' artworks and their multiple copies or imitations, is inspiration for this post, a sequel to my earlier post of March 13, 2012 'Mapping the relationship between artworks and weighing masterworks' (2). But inspiration is also found in the realm of the quantitative approach in art history, with emerging developments *Complex Networks in Art History and Archeology at the Center for Complex Network Research, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA and *Socio-spatial history of arts and literature at Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS), Paris.
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http://kbender.blogspot.be/2012/05/deja-vu-or-complex-networks-in-art.html?view=magazine