Toulouse, the Glorious Athens of the South? Computational Analysis of the Salons des Artistes Meridionaux (1907-1939)

Created in 1905, the Société des Artistes Méridionaux organized annual exhibitions in Toulouse, in order to promote regional arts and (re)created a "Latin"-and modern-style. Based on a corpus of 11,486 artworks exhibited at the SAM between 1907 and 1939, this paper seeks to measure the contours and particularities of the Salons des Artistes Méridionaux, using a computational approach