Description
This book takes a novel, data-driven approach to the cemeteries of Paris, analyzing a largely text-based body of archival material as proxy evidence for visual material that has been lost due to systematic, and legally sanctioned, acts of erasure.
This study represents the first full-length study of vernacular monuments in France and the entrepreneurs who made them. It also provides methodical considerations, at the intersection of the computational and digital humanities for managing survival biases in extant historical evidence, that are applicable beyond the thematic focus of this book. Since extant examples of these more inconspicuous monuments are rare, this project employs both distant and close viewing-analyzing commercial almanacs, work logs, and burial records in aggregates alongside detailed case studies-to compensate for gaps in the material record.
The book will be of interest to scholars working in visual culture, popular culture, digital humanities, and French history.
About the Author
Kaylee P. Alexander is the ACLS Emerging Voices Postdoctoral Fellow for Digital Matters at the University of Utah.
Book Information
ISBN 9781032502113
Author Kaylee P. Alexander
Format Paperback
Page Count 160
Imprint Routledge
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Series Routledge Research in Art History
