This essay describes a novel dataset that facilitates the quantitative analysis of eighteenth and nineteenth-century French painting. Based on titles listed in Paris Salon livrets, assigns detailed keywords indicating content for each more than 148,000 paintings shown at Salon—the principal art exhibition era—from seventeenth to nineteenth century. To demonstrate interest utility this dataset, ...

Self-portraiture is an important activity in photography. Yet, it remains difficult for mobile users who often capture self-portraits spontaneously. This demo presents a prototype that combines computer vision with audio interface to complement the conventional visual interaction, thus assisting users to capture better-framed self-portraits. ACM Classification: H5.2. Information interfaces and ...

Abstract This chapter argues that the contemporary British writer Jenny Diski and Modernist French photographer Claude Cahun are both literary self-portraitists, as this term is defined by Michel Beaujour. evident in their similar approaches to themes of masquerade, narcissism, naming. By reading Diski’s The Dream Mistress Cahun’s Disavowals light Julia Kristeva’s account well theories autofict...

The Portraits of Care study used portraiture to investigate ideas about care and care giving at the intersection of art and medicine. The study employed mixed methods involving both qualitative and quantitative research techniques. All aspects of the study were approved by the Institutional Review Board. The study included 26 patient and 20 caregiver subjects. Patient subjects were drawn from a...