The past decade has seen tremendous growth and innovation in the use of digital resources, methods, and tools in the history of art and architecture. While digital art history is less developed than text-based disciplines, the emergence of new digital standards for visual and spatial data, and advances in computer vision are poised to revolutionize the field. This article provides a survey of recent developments in digital art history from the perspective of European and North American publications and conferences. I discuss the digitization of visual, spatial, and textual resources by museums, research centers, and individual researchers. Researchers have developed a variety of tools for digitally analyzing art and architecture, which can replicate or challenge traditional methods of formal, iconographic, and socio-historical analysis. Trends in published research indicate uneven growth in the theoretical sophistication of digital art history scholarship. While digital methods are quickly moving into the training of art history professionals and students, digital art history communities in museums, research institutes, and universities remain somewhat fragmented. I conclude with a reflection on critiques of digital art history, several of which have not been fully addressed in recent scholarship.

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2021年的数字艺术史

在过去的十年里，艺术和建筑史上数字资源、方法和工具的使用取得了巨大的增长和创新。虽然数字艺术史不如基于文本的学科发达，但视觉和空间数据的新数字标准的出现以及计算机视觉的进步有望彻底改变该领域。本文从欧洲和北美的出版物和会议的角度对数字艺术史的最新发展进行了调查。我讨论了博物馆、研究中心和个人研究人员对视觉、空间和文本资源的数字化。研究人员开发了多种用于对艺术和建筑进行数字分析的工具，这些工具可以复制或挑战传统的形式、图像和社会历史分析方法。已发表研究的趋势表明，数字艺术史奖学金的理论复杂度增长不均衡。虽然数字方法正在迅速进入艺术史专业人士和学生的培训中，但博物馆、研究机构和大学中的数字艺术史社区仍然有些支离破碎。最后，我反思了对数字艺术史的批评，其中一些在最近的学术研究中没有得到充分解决。