Aesthetics – Canon – Critique. The Arts North of the Alps in Archaeological and Art Historical Research (C02)

• Subject Area: Classical, Roman, Christian and Islamic Archaeology ; Art History
• Term: since 2019
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 405662736

In the first funding phase, the investigation of creative appropriation and cultural hybridity in premodern architecture and painting north of the Alps has repeatedly touched upon processes, practices and media of premodern and modern canon formation. Now the underlying structures and methods of normative procedures will be systematically explored in a diachronic and interdisciplinary perspective along the lines of the praxeological model of the CRC. To this end, premodern elements of architecture, paintings and graphics will be analysed together with their contemporary and modern history of reception and research. Project C02 thus strives to contribute to the selective revision of a traditional understanding of aesthetics resulting from still-powerful canons in the humanities and their mechanisms of evaluation.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1391: Different Aesthetics
• Applicant Institution: Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
• Project Heads: Professor Dr. Johannes Lipps; Professorin Dr. Anna Pawlak