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Address inquiries to: Attn: (Type of Grant)The Getty FoundationPhone: 310 440.7374E-mail: [email protected]
Deadline: 1 OCTOBER 2019
Image: Alfred Percival Maudslay (British, 1850–1931), Stone and stucco heads and other ornaments, 1896, photogravure from A. P. Maudslay, Biologia Centrali-Americana; or, Contributions to the Knowledge of the Fauna and Flora of Mexico and Central America, ed. F. Ducane Godman and Osbert Salvin, Archaeology, vol. 4, plates (London: R. H. Porter and Dulau, 1896–1899), pl. 47b. Los Angeles, Getty Research Institute, 85-B5149. | Design © 2019 J. Paul Getty Trust
GETTY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
GRANTS2020–2021
at the Getty Center
HOW TO APPLY:The complete theme statements are available online at www.getty.edu/research/scholars/years/future.
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Residential grants and fellowships are available for scholars at all stages in their careers:
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❖ Getty pre- and postdoctoral fellowships
❖ GRI-NEH postdoctoral fellowships, made possible through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities
FRAGMENTTHE
The 2020/2021 academic year at the Getty Research Institute will be devoted to the fragment. Issues regarding the fragment have been present since the beginning of art history and archaeology. Many objects of study survive in physically fragmented forms, and any object, artwork, or structure may be conceived of as a fragment of a broader cultural context. As such, fragments catalyze the investigative process of scholarship and the fundamental acts of the historian: conservation, reconstruction, and interpretation. The evolution of an object—its material and semiotic changes across time, space, and cultures—can offer insights into the ethics and technologies of restoration, tastes for incompleteness or completeness, politics of collection and display, and production of art historical knowledge. While the fragment has been described as the central metaphor of modernity and the paradigmatic sign of a contemporary worldview, its history as a trope runs much deeper. Cultures of the fragment have flourished throughout history under such guises as the reuse of architectural parts and the cult of relics, the physical and conceptual image-breakings of iconoclasm, and the aesthetics of repair. Fragmentation can occur through artistic processes, acts of destruction, or forces of nature. It can be willful, accidental, or inevitable, but it is necessarily transformative.
Applicants are invited to address both the creation and reception of fragments, their mutability and mobility, and their valuation and consequence throughout history.