112th Annual Conference of the College Art Association of America - CAA 2024

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Max Koss - Chair

Lynn Rother - Chair

Chairs of the panel "Blanks No More - Digital Art History and the Unknown", a sponsored session of the Digital Art History Society.

Abstract:

Absences and gaps in the surviving historical record have been a driving force for art historians to engage in archival research, trying to fill in what is missing. After all, if the historical record is a function of chance and happenstance, how trustworthy can deductions from such a porous, unreliable archive be?

With the advent of digital tools in the humanities—and art history specifically—scholars have begun to critically reexamine the chase for missing bits of knowledge. Facing the reality that much missing knowledge cannot ultimately be recovered, they have reoriented their attention to make the gaps themselves speak.

Digital tools and methods can help infer meaning through technology-driven contextualization of the lacunae in the information at our disposal. Complicating the issue further, Joanna Sassoon has noted that the “absence of records can, in itself, be seen as evidence, and there comes a point in the research process where it may be more telling to explain erasure than continue searching for records.”

The panel brought together four papers discussing the unknown in catalogues raisonnés, the data life cycle and the possibilities and limitations of digital image reconstruction.

16.02.2024
112th Annual Conference of the College Art Association of America - CAA 2024

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112th Annual Conference of the College Art Association of America - CAA 2024

14.02.2417.02.24

Chicago, Illinois, United States

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