This introduction frames and situates this special issue of Visual Resources on the topic of digital art history, intentionally assembled five years after the journal’s previous digital art history issue with the goal of assessing the progress made in the field and encouraging more widespread adoption of digital methodologies. It sets forth the key themes of this issue: “thought pieces” on the state of digital art history and its value for scholarship and pedagogy; the significance of databases for art history and the intellectual complexities they entail; innovative computational analysis applied to material and social-historical questions in art history; and the possibilities engendered by online publishing. These foci are developed through and grounded in critically informed scholarly projects in digital art history. These projects also bring to light professional, cultural, social, linguistic, and even political issues encountered in practicing digital art history.

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数字艺术史

本介绍将本期视觉资源特刊以数字艺术史为主题，在该杂志上一期数字艺术史发行五年后有意组装，目的是评估该领域取得的进展并鼓励更广泛地采用数字方法论. 它阐述了本期的关键主题：关于数字艺术史现状及其学术和教学价值的“思想片段”；艺术史数据库的重要性及其带来的智力复杂性；应用于艺术史材料和社会历史问题的创新计算分析；以及在线出版带来的可能性。这些焦点是通过并以数字艺术史中具有批判性知识的学术项目为基础而发展起来的。