Last Modified

• May 15, 2019

Creator

• McGurrin, Veronica
  • Affiliation: School of Information and Library Science

Abstract

• The landscape of art history publishing has vastly shifted in the past decade as it transitions to a digital world. While various constraints have hindered the growth of digital art history publishing, cultural institutions have now started to create comprehensive publications. This paper presents a content analysis of three different art history publishing platforms: the Getty Institute’s Online Scholarly Catalogue Initiative, Canadian Online Art Book Project, and Artifex Press. The results of the study show that the majority of the publications focus on white, male, Western artists reinforcing canonical ideas of art history. Important structural trends are apparent from the analysis that can be utilized to examine future publications. The conclusion of the paper highlights the various new publications that have emerged since the start of the project, further reinforcing the idea that art history publishing is truly at a tipping point in regard to the proliferation of digital formats.

Date of publication

• May 2019

Keyword

• Publishers & publishing
• Museum collection catalogs
• Collection development in art libraries
• Content analysis
• Scholarly electronic publishing
• Academic discourse

DOI

• https://doi.org/10.17615/e6p4-mh98

Resource type

• Masters Paper

Advisor

• Bauer, JJ

Degree

• Master of Science in Library Science

Academic concentration

• Library and Information Science

Degree granting institution

• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Graduation year

• 2020

Language

• English

Deposit record

• 85ae5c40-de31-4c45-bdf2-804e598d50a6

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