Multiple contextualizations

• Autores: Michael S. Roth
• Localización: Art bulletin, ISSN 0004-3079, Vol. 79, Nº 1, 1997, págs. 25-27
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Part of a special section on money, power, and the history of art. The writer, head of the Scholars and Seminars Program at the Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities, discusses how the program might contribute to the field of art history. He asserts that the primary task of the institute is to use its vast resources to foster work that produces critical perspectives on the discipline of art history and, more generally, on the ways different cultures make sense of objects that often get called “art.” He sketches some of the ways in which he hopes the Scholars and Seminars Program can facilitate the production of innovative research that may challenge our conventional thinking about the history of art and the humanities. Ultimately, he concludes, the projects cultivated by the institute should assist the development of critical paradigms for understanding the role of cultural legacies in attempts to create a more meaningful present and future.