Dogu: Spirits of Clay.

内容：该项目将研究大英博物馆（BM）和塞恩斯伯里视觉艺术中心（SCVA）的史前欧亚雕像，并将举办两个临时展览和相关出版物。该项目利用了日本和欧洲专家的研究网络，他们在过去两年中一直在开会，为欧亚雕像研究制定新的议程。将来自英国和其他地方的大学学者与博物馆专家聚集在一起，将在广泛的比较框架中基于详细的正式和上下文研究，促进对小雕像的新理解。将通过一系列产出，包括展览、相关出版物和专题讨论会、公共节目和广泛的媒体报道，向更广泛的学术界和公众传播这一新的认识。史前陶俑代表了早期人类创造力的重要表现。它们揭示了许多关于它们的制造者如何看待自己作为人类以及他们与他们居住的世界的关系，他们对超自然的信仰，以及衣服，发型和身体在早期社会中的重要性。此外，它们还经常被用于当代试图通过与过去独特物品的联系来建立或确认现代文化身份。这将是英国第一个致力于史前雕像的展览。宗旨和目标：该项目将首次将两个最重要的欧亚雕像传统（日本绳纹，16000 -2500年前）和新石器时代巴尔干半岛（8500-4500年前）的一些例子带到英国，补充BM和SCVA的现有收藏。计划举办两次展览。第一个将是一个重要的绳纹雕像展览。这将是第一次专门针对这些物品的展览，并且已经引起了极大的兴趣，预计该展览也将在东京国立博物馆展出。第二次展览将为这些史前绳纹物品提供国际背景，将绳纹雕像与其他欧亚新石器时代陶瓷雕像并列（来自俄罗斯远东、中国和中欧），特别强调来自巴尔干半岛中部（特别是阿尔巴尼亚、马其顿和布拉迪斯拉发）的非常重要但鲜为人知的藏品。展览之前将进行两次研究访问，分别前往日本和巴尔干半岛，在此期间，英国，日本和巴尔干半岛的主要专家将参观彼此的遗址，博物馆和收藏品，并将举行当地研讨会，为全球雕像研究建立新的标准。这些考察访问的材料将纳入展览。SCVA展览将结合艺术家的居住地，以发展当代观众和雕像之间关系的新表达。在博物馆，博物馆入口附近的朝日室将被用于一个主要的当代艺术家的委托作品，表达他/她对史前绳纹雕像的回应。应用和好处：该项目将使学者和公众参与更广泛的关于过去的问题，以及过去在现在的作用。研究项目的成果将通过与波斯尼亚和黑塞哥维那教育部和哥伦比亚退伍军人事务委员会教育和研究科联合制定和提供的相关公共方案进行传播，这两个部门在这类方案方面都有丰富的经验。该项目将为英国现有的小雕像收藏建立一个新的研究背景。它还将巩固现有的研究网络，加强BM，SCVA和Sainsbury研究所之间的合作，为进一步的联合工作铺平道路。

Context: This project will research prehistoric Eurasian figurines in the British Museum (BM) and the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts (SCVA) leading to two temporary exhibitions and associated publications. The project draws on a research network of Japanese and European specialists who have been meeting over the past two years to develop a new agenda for Eurasian figurine studies. Bringing together university-based scholars with Museum specialists from the UK and elsewhere, a new understanding of figurines will be fostered, based on detailed formal and contextual study in a broad comparative framework. This new understanding will be disseminated to the wider academic community and the general public through a series of outputs, including the exhibitions, associated publications and symposia, public programming and broad media coverage. Prehistoric ceramic figurines represent an important expression of early human creativity. They reveal much about how their makers viewed themselves as human beings and their relationship with the worlds they inhabited, their beliefs in the supernatural, and the importance of clothes, coiffure and body ornamentation in early societies. In addition, they are often used in contemporary attempts to establish or confirm modern cultural identity through association with distinctive objects from the past. This will be the first exhibition dedicated to prehistoric figurines in UK. Aims and objectives: This project will bring some examples from the two most important Eurasian figurine traditions (Jomon Japan, 16,000-2500 years ago) and the Neolithic Balkans (8500-4500 years ago) to the UK for the first time, complementing existing collections at the BM and SCVA. Two exhibitions are planned. The first will be an exhibition of important Jomon figurines. This will be the first such exhibition dedicated to these objects, and has already generated such interest that it is expected that the exhibition will also be shown at the Tokyo National Museum.The second exhibition will provide an international context for these prehistoric Jomon objects, setting Jomon figurines beside important examples of other Eurasian Neolithic ceramic figurines (from the Russian Far East, China and Central Europe), with particular emphasis on the very significant but little known collections from the central Balkans (in particular Albania, Macedonia and Kosova). The exhibitions will be preceded by two research visits will take place, to Japan and the Balkans, during which leading UK, Japanese and Balkan specialists will visit each other's sites, museums and collections, and local seminars will be held, establishing a new standard for figurine studies worldwide. Materials from these study visits will be incorporated into the exhibitions. The SCVA exhibition will incorporate an artist's residency to develop new expressions of the relationship between contemporary audiences and figurines. At the BM, the Asahi Room close to the entrance of the Museum will be made available for a commissioned piece by a major contemporary artist, expressing his/her response to the prehistoric Jomon figurines.Applications and benefits: The project will engage both scholars and the general public in broader questions about the past, and the role of the past in the present. The results of the research project will be disseminated through associated public programming developed and delivered in association with the Education Department of the BM and the Education and Research Section of the SCVA, both of which have extensive experience of such programmes. The project will establish a new research context for existing collections of figurines in the UK. It will also consolidate an existing research network and reinforce collaboration between the BM, SCVA and Sainsbury Institute, paving the way for further joint working.