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Book SynopsisAn innovative application of economic methods to the study of art history, demonstrating that new insights can be uncovered by using quantitative and qualitative methods together, which sheds light on longstanding disciplinary inequities
Trade Review"Winner of a Millard Meiss Publication Fund Grant, College Art Association"
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Painting by Numbers…[is] careful and systematic…it is a solid demonstration that “counting things” matters. It leaves audiences to wonder what work the book will inspire as other researchers draw from the quantitative foundation Greenwald has established… [I]t’s clear that the author’s expertise in art and data pair brilliantly” –Lydia Pyne,
Hyperallergic"
"The real power of [Painting by Numbers] is. . . . prompting art historians to ask questions about the values underpinning their definition of their objects of study. . . . [Diana Greenwald] has done a valuable service to the field in asking us to rethink our fundamental categories of disciplinary concern and our responsibilities to the vast range of visual and material culture that might fall within their purview." * CAA Reviews *
"Diana Seave Greenwald’s
Painting by Numbers: Data-Driven Histories of Nineteenth-Century Art is an ambitious study that synthesizes two disparate approaches of scholarship: art history and economic analysis. . . . Greenwald is a pioneer in the field who is willing to explore new perspectives and challenge past presumptions. The book paves the way for similar interdisciplinary studies to follow. . . .
Painting by Numbers shows the promise of what can be achieved when an abundance of information is wedded with insightful scholarship."
---Matt Garklavs, ARLIS/NA Reviews"[Diana Greenwald] presents novel evidence on the artistic production of the nineteenth-century in France, the USA, and England and focusses on crucial topics in the art history of that period, namely, industrialization, gender, and the history of empire, providing new points of view. . . . [
Painting by Numbers] represents a concrete application of the benefits of an interdisciplinary approach in humanities and social sciences."
---Laura Paganl, Journal of Cultural Economics"[A] great benefit to art historians unpracticed in economic theory."
---Elizabeth L. Block, Panorama"
Painting By Numbers offers methods and interpretations that may revise art historians’ assumptions about what we do and how we do it."
---Julie Codell, Winterthur Portfolio"Using hard, quantitative data in order to test, critique or support conventional wisdom is very unusual in art-historical research. Painting by Numbers succeeds in making a convincing case for that kind of study, which makes it a model of methodological innovation, and a very welcome one."
---Jorge Sebastián Lozano, Art History
