Descripción del proyecto
Análisis del papel decorado en el mundo islámico
Los historiadores no han analizado sistemáticamente las técnicas y formas de la decoración sobre papel en el arte islámico. Dicho planteamiento de considerar los elementos decorativos como secundarios frente al texto y las imágenes restringe la comprensión del arte y la exploración de las interacciones artísticas entre diversas culturas dentro del mundo islámico, así como entre Asia Oriental y Oriente Medio. El equipo del proyecto GLOBAL DECO PAPER, financiado por el Consejo Europeo de Investigación, tiene por objeto investigar la decoración de bordes y fondos que se encuentra en las primeras artes islámicas modernas del libro. Arrojará luz sobre obras de arte menos estudiadas en las que aparece papel decorado. Esas obras de arte se crearon en la China de principios de la Edad Moderna, Asia Central, Irán, India y el Imperio otomano. El objetivo último del equipo del proyecto es contribuir mediante publicaciones y una base de datos interactiva.
Objetivo
Moving away from Eurocentric art historical to truly global and interdisciplinary approaches, this project aims at re-evaluating the early-modern history of the Islamicate arts of the book from a so-far not considered perspective: the border and background decoration of manuscripts. The manifold forms of paper decoration and their techniques have hitherto not been systematically analysed by historians of Islamic Art, who instead have focussed on manuscripts’ figurative illustrations. Labelling decorative devices as subordinate to text and images has proven limiting to a full comprehension of art and to the exploration of global artistic contacts between different cultures within the Islamicate world and between East Asia and the Middle East.
Drawing upon previous research initiatives by the PI, this project will bring together scholars from humanities and natural sciences in an interdisciplinary approach to aesthetics, materials, techniques and meaning of decorated paper produced and used in early-modern China, Central Asia, Iran, India and the Ottoman Empire. Favouring objects in the historical centres over well-known materials from collections in the West, this research is designed to further collections in the Middle East and Asia and to bring their understudied artworks under broader scholarly attention through publications and an interactive database.
The project has the potential to significantly re-shape the existing construct of Art History by shifting the attention to high-standard yet systematically ignored artistic production of decorated papers; meticulously investigating local traditions through innovative combinations of material analyses, the study of written sources and hardly applied comparisons with contemporary paper-decoration practices; and focussing on networks of trade, diplomacy and artistic exchange in Asia and the Middle East that paved the way for greatly varied and technically advanced forms of augmented paper decoration.
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Programa(s)
- HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme
Régimen de financiación
HORIZON-ERC - HORIZON ERC GrantsInstitución de acogida
80539 Muenchen
Alemania