Works of art from Gardner’s Art Through the Ages from 1926 until 2020

Usage

worksgardner

Format

A data frame with 2,325 observations on 24 variables.

artist_name: The name of a given artist in a given edition of Gardner's Art Through the Ages who has created a two-dimensional work after c. 1750.
edition_number: The number of the edition of Gardner's Art Through the Ages.
title_of_work: The title of the work as listed in .Gardner's Art Through the Ages
publication_year: The year of publication.
page_number_of_image: The page number of the figure of the image in the text.
artist_unique_id: A unique number assigned to each artist included in Gardner's Art Through the Ages that has created a two-dimensional work after c. 1750.
artist_nationality: The nationaliity of the artist.
artist_gender: The gender of the artist.
artist_race: The race of the artist.
artist_ethnicity: The ethnicity of the artist.
height_of_work_in_book: The height in centimeters of the figure of the work in the book itself.
width_of_work_in_book: The width in centimeters of the figure of the work in the book itself.
height_of_text: The height in centimeters of the text written about a given work by a given artist in a given edition.
width_of_text: The width in centimeters of the text written about a given work by a given artist in a given edition.
extra_text_height: The height in centimeters of the extra text written if the text of the work of an artist in not in a rectangular shape.
extra_text_width: The width in centimeters of the extra text written if the text of the work of an artist in not in a rectangular shape.
area_of_work_in_book: The area in centimeters squared of a work in the text.
area_of_text: The area in centimeters squared written about a work in the text.
extra_text_area: The extra area in centimeters squared written about a work if it is not rectangular in the text.
total_area_text: The total area in centimeters squared written about a given work.
total_space: The area of the work in centimeters squared plus the area of the text in centimeters squared given to a particular work.
page_area: The area in centimeters squared of a page in a given edition of Gardner's Art Through the Ages.
space_ratio_per_page: The total space in centimeters squared divided by the area of a page in a given edition.
book: The name of the book,Gardner's Art Through the Ages, but gardner for short.

Source

Stam, H. (2022). Quantifying art historical narratives. doi:10.7924/r4dn48h0w . Duke Research Data Repository.

Examples

library(ggplot2)
library(dplyr)

worksgardner %>%
  filter(artist_name == "Pablo Picasso") %>%
  ggplot(aes(x = publication_year)) +
  geom_bar() +
  labs(
    title = "Count of Works by Pablo Picasso Through Editions of
    Gardner's Art Through the Ages",
    x = "Year",
    y = "Number of Works by Picasso"
    )