%0 Conference Paper %1 schich2008 %A Schich, Maximilian %A Lehmann, Sune %A Park, Juyong %B ECCS2008 %D 2008 %K art popularity priorität:5 reception %T Dissecting the Canon: Visual Subject Co-Popularity Networks in Art Research %X An important question in art history and archaeology is the definition or emergence of canon, i.e. the set of most important objects, which everybody knows or supposedly should know in a given area – such as Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa and Botticelli‘s Venus in painting, or the Colosseum and the Pantheon in architecture. In this paper we show that canons are identical with the most popular items over a distribution of popularity, which happens to be highly heterogeneous. Furthermore we show that the global distribution of popularity can be dissected into sub-distributions with respective sub-canons. As a consequence we can explore the meaning of canon by looking at the co-popularity of visual objects in general, no matter if the objects belong to the head or the tail of the popularity distribution.

@inproceedings{schich2008, abstract = { An important question in art history and archaeology is the definition or emergence of canon, i.e. the set of most important objects, which everybody knows or supposedly should know in a given area – such as Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa and Botticelli‘s Venus in painting, or the Colosseum and the Pantheon in architecture. In this paper we show that canons are identical with the most popular items over a distribution of popularity, which happens to be highly heterogeneous. Furthermore we show that the global distribution of popularity can be dissected into sub-distributions with respective sub-canons. As a consequence we can explore the meaning of canon by looking at the co-popularity of visual objects in general, no matter if the objects belong to the head or the tail of the popularity distribution.}, added-at = {2010-03-24T11:05:04.000+0100}, author = {Schich, Maximilian and Lehmann, Sune and Park, Juyong}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/26cfafea54e5c05e24c0b0f4475b32cd1/iglesia}, booktitle = {ECCS2008}, day = 3, interhash = {85faa7f0a6255b1d20f90621d6346f58}, intrahash = {6cfafea54e5c05e24c0b0f4475b32cd1}, keywords = {art popularity priorität:5 reception}, language = {eng}, month = {September}, timestamp = {2010-03-24T11:05:04.000+0100}, title = {Dissecting the Canon: Visual Subject Co-Popularity Networks in Art Research}, year = 2008 }