{"id":4048,"date":"2023-09-12T20:49:55","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T18:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.org\/?p=4048"},"modified":"2023-09-12T20:49:55","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T18:49:55","slug":"phd-defence-weixuan-li-uva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/?p=4048","title":{"rendered":"Cum laude PhD defence alumna Weixuan Li"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 12 September 2023, Posthumus-alumna Weixuan Li successfully defended her PhD thesis <em>Painters&#8217; playbooks: Deep mapping socio-spatial strategies in the art market of seventeenth-century Amsterdam<\/em> cum laude at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Amsterdam. Promotors were Professor Charles van den Heuvel and professor Julia Noordegraaf, co-supervision was provided by Dr Claartje Rasterhoff and Dr Marten Jan Bok.<\/p>\n<p>The art market in seventeenth-century Amsterdam is often considered a competitive, multi-layered arena in which diverse artists catered to a broad and varied clientele. However, traditional economic and art-historical approaches struggle to fully comprehend this intricate market system. To address this, Weixuan&#8217;s dissertation introduces a socio-spatial approach using digital methods to examine the art market and explain the artistic outburst in seventeenth-century Amsterdam. By synthesizing various historical sources digitally, this study analyses artists\u2019 collective behaviour \u2013 or \u2018playbooks\u2019 \u2013 as revealed in their location choices, social relations, and the use of house interiors. Her dissertation interprets the art market not as an economic platform but as a socio-spatial phenomenon wherein artists aligned their behaviours with career goals and social and spatial milieu. Interpreting historical data from a socio-spatial perspective, this study argues that the changes in artists\u2019 playbooks both shaped the multi-layered market structure and influenced artistic innovation in seventeenth-century Amsterdam. It therefore, offers a behavioural explanation, contrasting traditional economic reasoning, for the creative outburst in the so-called Golden Age of Dutch art.<\/p>\n<p>The N.W. Posthumus Institute staff congratulates Weixuan with her promotion.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"bttn\" href=\"https:\/\/dare.uva.nl\/search?identifier=bdaca776-71c2-4ff2-b5fa-12fbfabe1a5b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FULL INFO<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 12 September 2023, Posthumus-alumna Weixuan Li successfully defended her PhD thesis Painters&#8217; playbooks: Deep mapping socio-spatial strategies in the art market of seventeenth-century Amsterdam cum laude at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Amsterdam. Promotors were Professor Charles van den Heuvel and professor Julia Noordegraaf, co-supervision was provided by Dr Claartje Rasterhoff [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4049,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posthumusinstitute.leidenuniv.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}