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Aims, structure and overview of the course.
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Chronology and ideology of the French Revolution; replacement of political ideology with consumer culture; personal style choice as individual identity.
- In this 1-hour session we will install on your machine everything you need to succeed this semester.
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Seminar Reading: Philippe Bordes and Régis Michel, eds. Aux armes et aux arts! Les arts de la Révolution, 1789-1799. Paris: Adam Biro, 1989.
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Lab Reading: Schnapp, Jeffrey. Short Guide to the Digital Humanities;
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Browse: Stanford’s Mapping the Republic of Letters; GO: DH’s Around DH in 80 Days; Morgan’s digitized 1797-1804 Journal des dames et des modes plates and the Gallica text of the magazine for those years.
- The Journal des dames et des modes in its political and artistic context: history of pre-1789 style and debates around luxury; chronology and ideology of the French Revolution 1789-1795; rejection of monarchic status indicators; replacement of political ideology with consumer culture; individual identity signaled by personal style choice; trendsetters of the Directoire and Consulat; defining traits of feminine and masculine clothing style 1795-1804.
- What is the history (or histories) of digital humanities? Why now? In this session we will survey a series of digital humanities projects and place them in the context of knowledge production in the 21st century in general, and this class specifically.
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Seminar Readings (to be started now, skimmed and continued as needed): Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby, “Nudity *à la grecque *in 1799,” *Art Bulletin *80:2 (June 1998) 311-335; Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, Necklines (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999); Richard Wrigley, The Politics of Appearances: Representations of Dress in Revolutionary France. Oxford and New York: 2002; Claire Cage, “The Sartorial Self, Neo-Classical Fashion and Gender Identity in France, 1797- 1804,” *Eighteenth Century Studies *42:2 (Winter 2009), 192-215; Sylvie Ramond et al. Juliette Récamier; muse et mécène. (Paris: Hazan, 2009) Exhibition catalogue, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, 2009; Amy Freund, “The Citoyenne Tallien: Women, Politics and Portraiture during the French Revolution,” *Art Bulletin *93:3 (September 2011), 325-344; Susan Siegfried, “The Visual Culture of Fashion and the Classical Ideal in Post-Revolutionary France,” *Art Bulletin *97:1 (2015), 77-99; Amelia Hauser, “Living Statues and Neoclassical Dress in Late Eighteenth-Century Naples,” Art History 38:3 (June 2015) 463-487; Anne Higonnet, “Through A Louvre Window,” Journal18, no. 2, 2016, http://www.journal18.org/issue2/through-a-louvre-window/.
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Lab Readings: McGann, Jerome. A New Republic of Letters. Harvard University Press, 2014; Tenen, Dennis and Wythoff, Grant. “Sustainable Authorship in Plain Text using Pandoc and Markdown”; Risam, Roopika. “Beyond the Margins: Intersectionality and the Digital Humanities.”
- How has scholarship on the clothing revolution of 1795-1805 evolved cumulatively? What aspects of this subject have been addressed, and how have scholars’ choices been affected by the availability of sources, as well as publication technologies? What aspects can be newly addressed now?
- Discuss readings through the lens of professionalized knowledge production.
- Introduction to plain text, UNICODE, plain text editors, and Markdown.
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Seminar Readings: Continue readings on revolutionary fashion culture.
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Lab Reading/Watching: YouTube. “What is GitHub?”; “Step 3. Make and commit changes” in GitHub Guides: Hello World; Any other GitHub tutorial you find useful. Note that as Columbia/Barnard students you have access to Lynda.com, which houses many thorough tutorials on git and GitHub.
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Resistance in the materials: In this, your first technological trial by fire, you will produce two files and upload them to the
first-exercisefolder in the class GitHub repository: File #1 (lastname-lorem.md): Using Markdown and a plain text editor, design a 3000-word, Lorem Ipsum document with title, author, sections and subsections, footnotes, at least one image and links; We expect you to hit several technological hurdles doing this exercise, and we want you to try to be as resourceful as you can to try to overcome them on your own—the only time we will ask you to do so—which brings us to File #2 (lastname-obstacles.md): Using Markdown and a plain text editor, document any and all obstacles or problems you encountered doing this exercise as a bullet point list. If you were not able to commit the first file to GitHub, you have the option to submit both files by email.
- Meet at the Morgan Museum
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Seminar readings: April Calahan, Fashion Plates; 150 Years of Style. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015 [read the introduction and text for plates up to 1804, browse plates, and continue as needed later]; Heather Belnap Jensen, “The Journal des Dames et des Modes: Fashioning Women in the Arts, c. 1800-1815,” Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, Vol. 5, No. 1 (Spring 2006); Annemarie Kleinert, Le « Journal des Dames et des Modes » ou la conquête de l'Europe féminine, 1797-1839 (Beihefte der Francia, 46), Stuttgart (Thorbecke) 2001, Online at perspectivia.net. [read up to 1804 and continue as needed]; Margaret Waller, “Disembodiment as a Masquerade: Fashion Journalists and Other “Realist” Observers in Directory Paris,” L’esprit créateur, vol. 37, no. 1, Spring 1997, pp. 44-54.
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Lab Reading: From Learn Python the Hardway, “Appendix A: Command Line Crash Course”;
By class time: meet individually with AH to discuss project direction and sources.
- What are fashion plates, and how can we interpret them? What actual clothing survives from 1795-1805, and through what means can it be studied? What role do texts play in the history of fashion?
- How to solve 99% of the technical problems you will encounter in digital humanities.
- Introduction to the Command Line.
- Introduction to Technical Specification
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Seminar Readings: (classic costume history, to be read as needed) Carl Köhler, A History of Costume [1928] Dover reprint 1963, pp. 374-87, 390-97; Aileen Ribeiro, The Art of Dress, 1995, pp. 90-105, 110-120; Christina Barreto and Martin Lancaster, Napoléon et l’Empire de la Mode (Milan: Skira, 2010).
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The Interpretation of Dreams: We will provide you with the overall contours of the project. Based on that framework, and working in teams of 2-3, you will write a collaborative draft “spec requirements” document for the final project that includes: a) two user stories, b) a bullet point list of desiderata; c) a paragraph describing the labor you speculate will will be required to build according to specifications with your team. The file must be a Markdown file and submitted to GitHub, where we expect to see evidence of the precise contribution of each team member.
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Lab Readings: Sayers, Jentery. “Minimal Definitions (tl;dr version)”; McGrail, Anne. “Open Source in Open Access Environments: Choices and Necessities”; Gil, Alex. “The User, the Learner and the Machines We Make.”
- Discuss overall final project as a collective.
- Form teams for final exhibit projects.
- Introduction to static site generation and Jekyll.
- Introduction to data structures and metadata.
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Hello, world: Make a fork of the Project Website, and run it in your machine. Add your first plate and send a pull request back to the main Github repository with your first plate. You will receive detailed instructions this time, and all the assistance you need.
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Take 2: Working with your exhibit team, design a spec requirement for your exhibit that includes: Introduction to the project, 1 user story, technological stack, division of labor and time distribution. Commit to a specific folder we will provide on our Class Website GitHub repository.
- Revolutionary clothing legislation vs. fashion magazine rhetoric
- Discuss team exhibits individually with AH and AG.
- Complete all assigned plates.
- Teaming up in pairs, revise each others work and submit “issues.”
- The biography factor: Joséphine Beauharnais, Teresa Cabarrus Tallien, Juliette Récamier; Jean-Baptiste Isabey; La Mésengère; Napoléon Bonaparte.
- Elements of Design
- Non-Hierarchical Project Management
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The Napkin: Submit three sketches of your team exhibit explaining at all turns what each element of the design is accomplishing. The design must be aware of the overall design constraints of the project.
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The Train Schedule: Using a spreadsheet of your choice, submit a timeline of duties and milestones for your team exhibit work for the next 3
weeks.
- Introduction to Image File Types and IIIF
- A gentle introduction to algorithms
- Introduction to search
- Manifest: Produce manifests and final versions of plate pages.
- In this session you will present your pre-launch projects and argue your approach.
- Incorporate feedback.
- Discussion of overall site.
- Incorporate feedback.
- Introduction to outreach.
- Final stretch