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Paintings by numbers : applications of bivariate correlation and descriptive statistics to Russian avant-garde artwork
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dc.contributor.advisor | Howard, Jeremy | |
dc.contributor.author | Strugnell, James Paul | |
dc.coverage.spatial | Vol.1: 259 , Vol.2: 346 | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-05-08T11:48:49Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-05-08T11:48:49Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017-06-22 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/10722 | |
dc.description.abstract | In this thesis artwork is defined, through analogy with quantum mechanics, as the conjoining of the nonsimultaneously measurable momentum (waves) of artwork-text (words within the primary sources and exhibition catalogues) with the position (particles) of artwork-objects (artist- productivity/exhibition-quantities). Such a proposition allows for the changes within the artwork of the Russian avant-garde to be charted, as such artwork-objects are juxtaposed with different artwork-texts from 1902 to 2009. The artwork of an initial period from 1902 to 1934 is examined using primary-source artwork-text produced by Russian artists and critics in relation to the contemporaneous production-levels of various types of Russian-avant-garde artwork-objects. The primary sources in this dataset are those reproduced in the artwork-text produced by the 62 exhibitions described below, and those published in John E. Bowlt’s 1991 edition of Russian Art of the Avant-Garde: Theory and Criticism. The production of artwork in the latter period from 1935 to 2009 is examined through consecutive exhibitions, and the relationship between the artwork-text produced by these exhibitions and the artwork-objects exhibited at them. The exhibitions examined within this thesis are 62 containing Russian avant-garde artwork, held in Britain from 1935 to 2009. Content analysis, using an indices-and-symptom analytical construct, functions to convert the textual, unstructured data of the artwork-text words to numerical, structured data of recording-unit weighted percentages. Whilst artist-productivity and exhibition-quantities of types of artwork-object convert the individual artwork-objects to structured data. Bivariate correlation, descriptive statistics, graphs and charts are used to define and compare relationships between: The recording units of the artwork-texts; the artist-productivity/ exhibition-quantities of types of artwork-objects; the structured artwork-text data and structured artwork-object data. These various correlations between structured artwork-text data and structured artwork-object data are calculated in relationship to time (Years) to chart the changes within these relationships. The changes within these relationships are synonymous with changes within Russian avant-garde artwork as presented from 1902 to 1934 and within the 62 British exhibitions from 1935 to 2009. Bivariate correlations between structured artwork-texts data and structured artwork-objects data express numerically (quantitatively) the ineffable relationships formed over time by large sets of unstructured data in the continued (re)creation of artwork. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | University of St Andrews | |
dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International | * |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | * |
dc.subject | Content analysis | en_US |
dc.subject | Bivariate correlation | en_US |
dc.subject | Statistics | en_US |
dc.subject | Quantum mechanics | en_US |
dc.subject | Russian avant garde | en_US |
dc.subject | Quantitative | en_US |
dc.subject | Art history | en_US |
dc.subject.lcc | N6988.5A83S8 | |
dc.subject.lcsh | Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--Russia--History--20th century--Statistics | en |
dc.subject.lcsh | Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--Soviet Union--History--20th century--Statistics | en |
dc.subject.lcsh | Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--Russia (Federation)--History--Statistics | en |
dc.title | Paintings by numbers : applications of bivariate correlation and descriptive statistics to Russian avant-garde artwork | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
dc.contributor.sponsor | Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities (SGSAH) | en_US |
dc.type.qualificationlevel | Doctoral | en_US |
dc.type.qualificationname | PhD Doctor of Philosophy | en_US |
dc.publisher.institution | The University of St Andrews | en_US |
dc.rights.embargoreason | Electronic copy of Graph 3.1.3.1 is restricted permanently | en |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.17630/10023-10722 |
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