Comparative Viewing of Pictures: Practices of Incomparability and the Theory of the Sublime (E02 [C01])

在第一个资助阶段，该项目重建了18世纪在鉴赏家中发展起来的在图片中进行比较的做法，以及在处理成对图片时的做法。在此基础上，该项目现在正在使用崇高的例子来检验如何通过具体的比较实践来产生和体验不可比较性。该项目以康德对崇高的定义为出发点，调查了1800年左右的艺术理论和艺术实践是如何试图通过诉诸于常规的实践与绘画的形式来解决绘画表现或唤起崇高的问题。

In the first funding phase, the project reconstructed formations of practices of comparing in pictures as they were developed in the 18th century among connoisseurs as well as when dealing with pairs of pictures. On this basis, the project is now using the example of the sublime to examine how incomparability is produced and experienced by means of specific comparative practices. Taking Kant's definition of the sublime as its point of departure, the project is investigating how art theory and art practice around 1800 attempted to solve the problem of a pictorial representation or evocation of the sublime by resorting to routinized formations of practices with pictures.