Art History Textbook Data

Data from Gardner and Janson art history textbooks about both the artists featured in these books as well as their works. See Helen Gardner ("Art through the ages; an introduction to its history and significance," 1926, < https://find.library.duke.edu/catalog/DUKE000104481>. Helen Gardner, revised by Horst de la Croix and Richard G. Tansey ("Gardner’s Art through the ages," 1980, ISBN: 0155037587). Fred S. Kleiner ("Gardner’s art through the ages: a global history," 2020, ISBN: 9781337630702). Horst de la Croix and Richard G. Tansey ("Gardner's art through the ages," 1986, ISBN: 0155037633). Helen Gardner ("Art through the ages; an introduction to its history and significance," 1936, < https://find.library.duke.edu/catalog/DUKE001199463>). Helen Gardner ("Art through the ages," 1948, < https://find.library.duke.edu/catalog/DUKE001199466>). Helen Gardner, revised under the editorship of Sumner M. Crosby ("Art through the ages," 1959, < https://find.library.duke.edu/catalog/DUKE001199469>). Helen Gardner, revised by Horst de la Croix and Richard G. Tansey ("Gardner’s Art through the ages," 1975, ISBN: 0155037560). Fred S. Kleiner ("Gardner’s Art through the ages: a global history," 2013, ISBN: 9780495915423. Fred S. Kleiner, Christin J. Mamiya, Richard G. Tansey ("Gardner’s art through the ages," 2001, ISBN: 0155083155). Fred S. Kleiner ("Gardner’s Art through the ages: a global history," 2016, ISBN: 9781285837840). Fred S. Kleiner, Christin J. Mamiya ("Gardner’s art through the ages," 2005, ISBN: 0534640958). Helen Gardner, revised by Horst de la Croix and Richard G. Tansey ("Gardner’s Art through the ages," 1970, ISBN: 0155037528). Helen Gardner, Richard G. Tansey, Fred S. Kleiner ("Gardner’s Art through the ages," 1996, ISBN: 0155011413). Helen Gardner, Horst de la Croix, Richard G. Tansey, Diane Kirkpatrick ("Gardner’s Art through the ages," 1991, ISBN: 0155037692). Helen Gardner, Fred S. Kleiner ("Gardner’s Art through the ages: a global history," 2009, ISBN: 9780495093077). Davies, Penelope J.E., Walter B. Denny, Frima Fox Hofrichter, Joseph F. Jacobs, Ann S. Roberts, David L. Simon ("Janson’s history of art: the western tradition," 2007, ISBN: 0131934554). Davies, Penelope J.E., Walter B. Denny, Frima Fox Hofrichter, Joseph F. Jacobs, Ann S. Roberts, David L. Simon ("Janson’s history of art: the western tradition," 2011, ISBN: 9780205685172). H. W. Janson, Anthony F. Janson ("History of Art," 2001, ISBN: 0810934469). H. W. Janson, revised and expanded by Anthony F. Janson ("History of art," 1986, ISBN: 013389388). H. W. Janson, Dora Jane Janson ("History of art: a survey of the major visual arts from the dawn of history to present day," 1977, ISBN: 0810910527). H. W. Janson, Dora Jane Janson ("History of art: a survey of the major visual arts from the dawn of history to present day," 1969, < https://find.library.duke.edu/catalog/DUKE000005734>). H. W. Janson, Dora Jane Janson ("History of art: a survey of the major visual arts from the dawn of history to present day," 1963, < https://find.library.duke.edu/catalog/DUKE001521852>). H. W. Janson, revised and expanded by Anthony F. Janson ("History of art," 1991, ISBN: 0810934019). H. W. Janson, revised and expanded by Anthony F. Janson ("History of art," 1995, ISBN: 0810934213).

arthistory

This package contains data that was used for Holland Stam’s thesis work, titled Quantifying art historical narratives. The data was collected to assess the demographic representation of artists through editions of Janson’s History of Art and Gardner’s Art Through the Ages, two of the most popular art history textbooks used in the American education system. In this package specifically, both artist-level and work-level data was collected along with variables regarding the artists’ demographics and numeric metrics for describing how much space they or their work took up in each edition of each textbook.

Installation

You can install the development version of arthistory from GitHub with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("saralemus7/arthistory")

Datasets

This package contains three datasets:

• worksjanson: Contains individual work-level data by edition of Gardner’s art history textbook from 1963 until 2011. For each work, there is information about the size of the work and text as displayed in the textbook as well as details about the work’s medium and year created. Demographic data about the artist is also included.

• worksgardner: Contains individual work-level data by edition of Gardner’s art history textbook from 1926 until 2020. For each work, there is information about the size of the work as displayed in the textbook as well as the size of the accompanying descriptive text. Demographic data about the artist is also included.

• artists: Contains various information about artists by edition of Gardner or Janson’s art history textbook from 1926 until 2020. Data includes demographic information, space occupied in the textbook, as well as presence in the MoMA and Whitney museums.