[game_preservation] game_preservation Digest, Vol 58, Issue 10

[John Sharp]

This is very close to connoisseurship, an approach used most widely in art history in the study of Italian Renaissance painting throughout most of the 19th and into the 20th century. The idea is that you become very familiar with the body of work in a given field, and through this knowledge, you begin to piece together stylistic and technical consistencies in an artist's work. It was a technique used to build up an understanding of who painted what in the face of little to no documentation. It was practiced by scholars, art dealers, collectors, etc. The best known of the connoisseurs was Bernard Berenson.

Connoisseurship was largely discredited as a serious approach for a number of reasons, but two stand out: increased emphasis on archival research, scandals involving well-known scholars and art dealers to collude on assigning authorship to a painting to raise its price.


John Sharp

On Oct 31, 2010, at 12:00 PM, game_preservation-request at igda.org wrote:


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> From: Devin Monnens <dmonnens at gmail.com>

> Subject: [game_preservation] Identifying game makers based on style

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> Here is a discussion I stumbled upon in VGMdb. VGMdb attempts to catalogue

> every game music album released. They are the largest database in English on

> this subject. This thread (might seem a little otaku) is analyzing the

> musical styles of Mega Man X to help determine who composed what (the liner

> notes do not marry composer with song). Post 8 has the most detail of this

> method. It is interesting that the experts of this field are dedicated

> audiences rather than say scholars or journalists. They are perhaps a kind

> of curator without attaining an official role. I have considered a similar

> method for identifying the artists behind early arcade games.

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> http://vgmdb.net/forums/showthread.php?p=24197#post24197

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> Devin Monnens

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