FRAGILE IMAGES
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The Fragility, Instability, Ambiguity, and Self-Reflexivity of Images in Roman A...
FRAGILE IMAGES fundamentally challenges the dominant notion of images as powerful actors. It moves away from the focus on the affective, persuasive, performative, and immersive image and instead focuses on its fragility, instabili...
FRAGILE IMAGES fundamentally challenges the dominant notion of images as powerful actors. It moves away from the focus on the affective, persuasive, performative, and immersive image and instead focuses on its fragility, instability, ambiguity, and self-reflexivity. This radically new approach brings together a Visual Studies perspective and a cultural-historical approach and applies them to Roman imagery from the 2nd century BC to the 4th century AD. It has three main objectives:
1) A systematic study of pictorial fragility
The manifold phenomena of pictorial fragility are divided into three analytical dimensions: temporal fragility, which deals with the material, contextual, and conceptual mutability of images; semantic fragility, which deals with their ambiguity; and ontological fragility, which addresses their self-reflexivity. The case studies aim at elaborating the semantic, aesthetic, but also social potentials of such ‘fragile’ images.
2) A new perspective on Roman visual culture
By means of a comparative approach, the project explores the extent to which manipulated, ambiguous, and self-reflexive images differ in their spatial contexts and in their socio-cultural forms of use. This focus invites a new way of looking at Roman art: The temporality, ambiguity, and self-reflexivity of Roman images are constitutive elements of an innovative, sophisticated, intelligent, and even intellectual visual culture. This perspective moves away from the old view of Roman art as a mere derivative of Greek pictorial concepts.
3) A reformulation of image theory in the light of ‘fragile’ images
This project will not only challenge the common notion of the power of images, but also transcend the dichotomy of power and weakness. ‘Fragility’ is not considered as an image deficit, but as a pictorial quality to be analysed in terms of its specific potential. The focus on pictorial fragility will result in renegotiating the ‘activity’ of image and viewer.
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Duración del proyecto: 68 meses
Fecha Inicio: 2024-04-29
Fecha Fin: 2029-12-31
Fecha Fin: 2029-12-31
Línea de financiación: concedida
El organismo HORIZON EUROPE notifico la concesión del proyecto el día 2024-04-29
Línea de financiación objetivo
El proyecto se financió a través de la siguiente ayuda:
ERC-2023-ADG:
ERC ADVANCED GRANTS
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hace 1 año
Presupuesto
El presupuesto total del proyecto asciende a
3M€
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Perfil tecnológico
TRL
4-5
Perfil tecnológico
TRL
4-5