Bourses de recherches au Getty Research Institute, 2014/2015. Theme : “Object – Value – Canon”

The Getty Research Institute and the Getty Villa invite proposals for the 2014–2015 academic year, “Object – Value – Canon,” residential grants and fellowships .
The theme aims to explore methods of art-historical interpretation, shifting from the traditional processes and terminology to a variety of new strategies.

Object, value, and canon have different significances in other historical and social contexts. A more diverse integration of understudied visual and archaeological objects necessitates areassessment of the traditional approach in order to enrich the understanding of the world’s artistic heritage.
Art-historical interpretation has traditionally proceeded from the description of an object; to discussions about its artistic, cultural, or commercial value; and then to attempts to place the object in a canon with other works. From Vasari to Gombrich and up to today, this process has been the established path of art-historical writing.
With the movement of art history from a Western-oriented discipline to a global one, this interpretive process—and the terms themselves—must be examined in a new way. Object, value, and canon have different significances in other historical and social contexts. A more diverse integration of understudied visual and archaeological objects necessitates a reassessment of the traditional approach in order to enrich the understanding of the world’s artistic heritage.
In addition to the global turn, current technological developments present their own challenges to traditional art-historical methodologies. The unlimited accessibility of information confronts the researcher with expansive but unauthoritative resources. High-resolution images open ways to observe and investigate artworks that visits to museums cannot offer. The objects as well as the canon have to be reevaluated in the era of the digital humanities.

The Getty Research Institute and the Getty Villa invite proposals from scholars and fellows working in a wide range of individual topics to engage these challenges and address their impact in an international and interdisciplinary environment.

Deadline: November 1, 2013.

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Detailed instructions are available online at:
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Please address inquiries via email to researchgrants@getty.edu