Handling and Instruction in Early Modern How-to Books and Artists’ Manuals

早期现代指导书籍和艺术家手册中的处理和指导

• 批准号: 441411253
• 负责人: Professorin Dr. Christina Lechtermann
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Germanistisches Institut
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Units
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/441411253?language=en
• 关键词: Handling; Instruction; Early; Modern; How

Early modern specialist literature on the visual arts offers a wide range of approaches to communicate knowledge on procedures and manufacturing techniques: they present their explanations and recipes in accordance with rhetorical forms, they connect them to other spheres of knowledge, they link them with diagrams and imagery, associate them to literary conventions, and design them with regard to different addressees. In short: early modern manuscripts and prints stage ‘techne’ in a very fundamental way. We assume that the way those writings narrate and present their material was part of a common notion of ‘techne’ and thus of a collective imaginary about the efforts and achievements of artisanry.We will analyse Italian and German specialist literature with regard to the presentation of the handling of tools, instruments, and materials and analyse the description of procedures and their staging through combinations of text and imagery. We want to investigate how artisan knowledge is explained explicitly, how it is presented in abbreviation by means of templates, patterns or recipes, and how even the concealment of knowledge can add to a representation of ‘techne’ that accentuates a notion of marvelousness, of skill, effort or effortlessness. Hence, ‘techne’ can be found in specialist writings either as point of reference to the realm of the practical and as a blank space that underlines, how certain forms of artisanry, recognizable only in view of the object, cannot be communicated in writing.Our focus on the representation and staging of ‘techne’ in early modern technical writing comprises the question how those books and manuscripts are themselves subjected to literary conventions, technical necessities, traditions and innovations in taxonomy, and patterns of interpretation, how they are coined by the practices and needs of manuscript culture and early print or by the schedules of a certain publishing house. Thus, the presentation and communication of artisan knowledge can be contextualized and described as a historical concept – a narration of ‘techne’ that is not only shaped by the workshop and its operations but is located at the intersection of objects, practices and their representation. The setup of the project which combines art history and philology is structured to meet the special methodological concerns connected with this constellation.

早期现代视觉艺术的专业文献提供了广泛的方法来交流程序和制造技术的知识：他们按照修辞形式提出他们的解释和配方，他们将它们与其他知识领域联系起来，他们将它们与图表和图像联系起来，将它们与文学惯例联系起来，并根据不同的收件人设计它们。简而言之：早期现代手稿和印刷品以一种非常基本的方式上演了“技术”。我们假设这些作品叙述和呈现材料的方式是“技术”这一共同概念的一部分，因此是关于手工艺的努力和成就的集体想象。我们将分析意大利和德国关于工具、仪器和材料处理的介绍的专业文献，并分析通过文本和图像的组合对程序及其阶段的描述。我们想研究工匠知识是如何被明确地解释的，它是如何通过模板、模式或配方以缩写形式呈现的，以及即使是知识的隐藏也能增加对“技术”的表达，从而强调一个关于熟练、技能、努力或不努力的概念。因此，“技术”可以在专业著作中找到，要么作为实用领域的参考点，要么作为一个空白空间，强调只有从对象的角度才能识别的某些手工艺形式，我们对早期现代技术写作中“技术”的表现和分期的关注包括这些书籍和手稿本身如何受到文学影响的问题。传统、技术需求、分类学的传统和创新以及解释模式，它们是如何被手稿文化和早期印刷的实践和需求或某个出版社的时间表所创造的。因此，工匠知识的呈现和交流可以被语境化，并被描述为一个历史概念--一种对“技术”的叙述，它不仅由车间及其操作塑造，而且位于对象、实践及其表现的交叉点。该项目结合了艺术史和文献学，旨在满足与这一星座相关的特殊方法论问题。