摘要：ARTL@S is a project on the spatial and trans-national history of the arts and humanities, based on the collaboration of quantitative methods and cartographic visualization. These two strategies fit into a perspective nourished by critical and sociological theory that, in short, aims to highlight not only the link between a work of art and its space, but also its underlying political, social, aesthetic or economic issues. From this standpoint, we have chosen to take advantage of what a digi-tal approach can offer: the constitution of da-tabases, quantitative analysis, graphic and geographic representations of data, as well as the Internet. In this introduction we present ARTL@S, explain the contribution maps can have to art history, and put our project in a broader historiographical context.
关键词：Artlas; geography of arts; géographie de l'art; cartography; cartographie; quantitative art history; histoire de l'art quantitative; circulations; cultural transfers; transferts culturels; global history of art; histoire mondiale de l'art; digital humanities; humanités numériques
