GRK 658:  Image. Body. Medium. An Anthropological Approach

• Subject Area: Art History, Music, Theatre and Media Studies
• Term: from 2000 to 2009
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 273201

The aim of this research training group is to evolve a picture science from an anthropological point of view. The always very close relationships between image, body and medium as the three constant parameters of the history of the image producing media are to be analysed. Not only an interdisciplinary approach which also includes nature sciences is necessary but also an intercultural and wide historical perspective. The young researchers are envolved in a program which includes seminars, lectures, colloquia and excursions as well and which offers elaborated insights in the wide range of the history of the image.

• DFG Programme: Research Training Groups
• Applicant Institution: Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe
• Participating Institution: Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz - Max-Planck-Institut
• Spokesperson: Professor Dr. Beat Wyss
• Participating Researchers: Professor Dr. Hans Belting; Professor Dr. Gottfried Boehm; Professorin Dr. Ursula Anna Frohne; Professor Dr. Kay Kirchmann; Professor Dr. Lothar Ledderose; Professor Dr. Thomas Macho; Professor Dr. Norbert Schneider; Professor Dr. Gerhard Wolf; Professor Dr. Siegfried Zielinski