Image provocation. Invective comedy and autonomous art 1500–1800 (F)

• Subject Area: Art History
• Term: from 2017 to 2022
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 317232170

How do images in the mode of the comic succeed in affecting viewers and influencing invective processes? This question will be examined as part of the sub-project when exploring the aesthetics of image provocation between 1500 and 1800. Complementing the research on pictorial parody, which was conducted in the first funding period, the project now aims to explore how a critically provocative pictorial language developed, and to what extent it contributed to the autonomization of art and artists. The project will analyze invective gestures, caricatures, and violations of decorum. Motifs, genres, and the role of the artist as provocateur will be examined and compared.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1285: Invectivity. Constellations and Dynamics of disparagement
• Applicant Institution: Technische Universität Dresden
• Project Head: Professor Dr. Jürgen Müller