Project Details
Projekt
Comparative Viewing of Pictures: Practices of Incomparability and the Theory of the Sublime (E02 [C01])
Subject Area
Art History
Term
from 2017 to 2024
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 317664947
In the first funding phase, the project reconstructed formations of practices of comparing in pictures as they were developed in the 18th century among connoisseurs as well as when dealing with pairs of pictures. On this basis, the project is now using the example of the sublime to examine how incomparability is produced and experienced by means of specific comparative practices. Taking Kant's definition of the sublime as its point of departure, the project is investigating how art theory and art practice around 1800 attempted to solve the problem of a pictorial representation or evocation of the sublime by resorting to routinized formations of practices with pictures.
DFG Programme
Collaborative Research Centres
Applicant Institution
Universität Bielefeld
Project Heads
Professor Dr. Johannes Grave; Dr. Britta Hochkirchen, until 12/2020
