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Lea SAINT-RAYMOND

Teacher-researcher
Director of the Observatoire des humanités numériques
Arts
Geography
History
Social Sciences
ENS-PSL
, updated on
9 September 2024
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Institut d’histoire moderne et contemporaine (IHMC)
45 rue d'Ulm
75005 Paris

Alumna of the ENS, agrégée in economics and social sciences and doctor in art history, I currently direct the ENS-PSL Observatoire des humanités numériques. 

Field of research

My research relies on the tools of digital humanities to analyze the history of the art market and preference systems over a long period of time. I am also interested in "global" art history, through publications and an exhibition I am curating, at the Fine Arts Museum in Lyon (June-September 2024).

In my art history dissertation, I built a corpus of more than 2,000 Parisian public auction catalogs between 1830 and 1939 - 216,445 paintings, drawings and sculptures, 60,466 art objects and 9,165 antiques - which I studied using computational data analysis tools: statistics, econometrics, digital mapping, textometry and network analysis.

I founded the GeoMAP, DatArt, and Digital Viau projects, and I co-direct IMAGO and MSS

Since 2019, I teach digital humanities at ENS-PSL, in the introductory course, in intensive training and, since 2021, in collective project coaching

Books

Digital Humanities Papers