The Swiss National Science Foundation and the University of Basel founded the National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) eikones «Iconic Criticism – The Power and Meaning of Images » in 2005. This interdisciplinary research programme has now already reached its second 4-year phase (2009-2013).
The recently established module «Die Kunst und die Künste » (Art and the Arts) will, from 2011, be headed by Prof. Dr. Ralph Ubl, Department of Art History of the University of Basel.
Interested young scholars – doctoral candidates and postdocs – planning their dissertation are invited to apply with their project proposals.
Abstract: given the success with which the interdisciplinary expansion of the «iconic turn » has progressed in the last two decades, it seems to be the right moment for a historical and conceptual reconsideration of the origins of picture theory in Modernist aesthetics. Lessing's distinction between (pictorial) spatial and (linguistic) temporal arts was certainly a central starting point. Beside this differentiation into individual arts, however, Modernism has also been characterized by philosophical and artistic speculations about the common substance of the various arts. The module «Art and the Arts » will study the relationship between theories of art and theories of the specificity of the individual arts. It will start from concepts such as «medium specificity » (Greenberg, Fried, Krauss), «Verfransung » (Adorno), «pictorial nominalism » (de Duve), or the «singular plural of art » (Nancy). It will understand these art critical terms as responses to a question that has emerged with the beginning of modern aesthetics: namely, how the technical and conceptual plurality of artistic production can be re-defined by assuming a subjective ability and power on which all the various arts were based. Of special interest to us are the links and pivots between the arts. To situate our project within the framework of eikones, we shall have to ask what role images played, and are still able to play today, in the debate on the unity or inner differentiation of art. Instead of once again stating the pictorial character of specific arts, we shall study just how images articulate the difference or dovetailing of the various arts and what relations they establish to other articulations of artistic plurality.
We require above-average proof of performance as well as the willingness to critically and productively discuss questions touching upon iconic theory in an interdisciplinary debate. Also expected is your co-operation as to project organization as well as a close co-operation with other eikones research groups.
Specific requirements for this project
- Graduate degree in Art History, Literature, or Dramatics
- Very good knowledge of modern aesthetics and art theory
Doctoral candidates
- MA/licentiate/diploma/graduate degree, no more than 3 years ago
- No older than 30 years (certain exceptions are possible)
Postdocs
- Doctorate no more than 5 years ago
- Research work in the aforementioned field
- No older than 35 years (certain exceptions are possible)
General
Languages
- English: very good active knowledge
- German (for those speaking a foreign language): very good passive knowledge
- additional languages an advantage
Readiness to familiarize themselves with new areas of knowledge and concepts, interdisciplinary engagement
These (full-time) positions shall be awarded for the entire Phase II, that is, maximum until Sept. 30th, 2013.
Starting: immediately or upon agreement
Application documents (please send everything as a single pdf file) per e-mail
- Statement of purpose, curriculum vitae, transcripts of certificates
- Project outline (app. 3-5 pages)
- Specimen text (e.g. a chapter of the master’s paper or dissertation; max. (!) 20 pages)
- Names of 2 people who can provide letters of recommendation
Application deadline: November 7th, 2010
Address: helen.dunkel@unibas.ch
Contact: Helen Dunkel (helen.dunkel(at)unibas.ch)
Tel. ++41 61 267 18 03 (Mon. – Thurs. 10:00 – 12:00)
Please note: application interviews shall take place in Basel between November 16th and 19th, 2010. Please reserve these dates in case you should be invited.
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