worksjanson: Works of art from Janson's History of Art from 1963 until...

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Works of art from Janson's History of Art from 1963 until 2011

Description

Works of art from Janson's History of Art from 1963 until 2011

Usage

worksjanson

Format

A data frame with 1,634 observations on 25 variables.

artist_name

The name of a given artist in a given edition of Janson's Art Through the Ages who has created a two-dimensional work after c. 1750.

artist_unique_id

A unique number assigned to each artist included in Janson's History of Art that has created a two-dimensional work after c. 1750.

artist_nationality

The nationaliity of the artist.

artist_gender

The gender of the artist.

artist_race

The race of the artist.

artist_ethnicity

The ethnicity of the artist.

title_of_work

The title of the work as listed in .Janson's History of Art

edition_number

The number of the edition of Janson's History of Art.

publication_year

The year of publication.

part_in_text

The number of the part in the text. In this case, every work is from part 4, "The Modern World."

chapter_title

The title of the chapter a given work is in.

start_date

The year the artist began creating the work.

end_date

The year the artist finished the work.

circa

1 if the date of the work was labeled with a circa (around) and 0 if the date of the work was not labeled with a circa

medium

The medium of the work.

height_of_work_in_book

The height in centimeters of the work in a given edition of Janson's History of Art

width_of_work_in_book

The width in centimeters of the work in a given edition of Janson's History of Art

height_of_text

The height of text in centimeters of the text written about the work in a given edition of Janson's History of Art

width_of_text

The width of text in centimeters of the text written about the work in a given edition of Janson's History of Art

area_actual_work

The area in centimeters squared of the actual work itself.

area_of_work_in_book

The area in centimeter's squared of a given work in a given edition of Janson's History of Art

area_of_text

The area in centimeter's squared of the text of given work in a given edition of Janson's History of Art

work_to_figure_ratio

The size of the actual work divided by the size of the work in the book

work_in_text_in_color

If the figure of the work in Janson's History of Art was in color, such is denoted by a 1, if the figure of the work is not in color, such is denoted by a 0.

location_as_catalogued_in_janson

The location of the work as catalogued in a given edition of Janson's History of Art.

Source

Stam, H. (2022). Quantifying art historical narratives. doi: 10.7924/r4dn48h0w. Duke Research Data Repository.

Examples

library(ggplot2)
library(dplyr)

worksjanson %>%
  filter(artist_name == "Pablo Picasso") %>%
  ggplot(aes(x = publication_year)) +
  geom_bar() +
  labs(
    title = "Count of Works by Pablo Picasso Through Editions of
    Janson's History of Art",
    x = "Year",
    y = "Number of Works by Picasso"
    )

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