Project F: Art History
"Parodies and Pasquinades. Form and Formation of Modernisation Processes in Early Modern Art"
The Research Project examines pictorial parodies and literary forms of artistic opprobrium that occur increasingly in Germany, Italy and the Netherlands from 1500 onwards. It analyses these invective phenomena as a special form of communication within the art system. Our interest centres on techniques of devaluation, especially on parodies exposing the works or the artists to ridicule by reframing their motives in an inappropriate and disparaging context. It is the project’s main concern to understand and explain these techniques as an important contribution to the contemporary discourse on aesthetic modernisation and the autonomization of art.