Images and Imagination of Impairment and Disability in the "Hans-Würtz-Collection"

该项目位于残疾研究与历史、残疾文化和残疾艺术这三个相互关联的学术领域。首席研究员是McKeown博士教授（英国）和Musenberg博士教授（德国）。Musenberg的研究处于特殊教育学科史、文化残疾研究和历史教育包容性的交叉点。McKeown的研究领域包括艺术与设计、残疾艺术和残疾历史与遗产。残疾研究（以及英国的残疾艺术）起源于20世纪70年代和80年代的解放残疾人运动，并在社会科学的背景下在学术界建立起来。文化视角带来了额外的接触点，例如文学研究、文化史和残疾文化与艺术。为了这个项目的目的，我们汇总并描述了文化残疾研究所反映的我们的兴趣。该项目将观看、分析和传播由德国残疾教育家汉斯·w<s:1> rtz（1875-1958）在1910-1933年间收集和策划的一系列与残疾和损伤有关的重要艺术品。1910-1933年是欧洲历史上的关键时期，见证了国家社会主义及其极端伴随的残疾主义和残疾人主义思想和行动的兴起。w<s:1> rtz创新地从流行的医学角度转移到更多的文化角度，这在他的杰出收藏中体现在其大小和内容上。矛盾的是，这些收藏品之所以能保存下来，是因为国家社会主义当局认为它们没有价值，并允许w<s:1> rtz将这些收藏品转移到他在捷克斯洛伐克的流亡地。因此，这些收藏品保存在布拉格的两个档案馆中。大部分未绘制地图的藏品包括180件陶器、象牙和木制雕像；3500幅绘画、漫画、平版、版画、杂志和照片的复制品；20绘画;记录藏品元素的玻璃板底片。一个主要的研究问题是，在收集中如何表现（和分阶段）损伤和残疾；在整个组合中，通过对选定的关键项目进行更仔细的调查？在这个问题之后，我们的主要目标是-使我们的收藏便于我们的研究（以数字形式捕获收藏），并根据其主题和主题查看和组织收藏，-分析关于艺术作品中残疾的分期和生产的图像和雕塑样本-将收藏的艺术历史语境和图像学与重建相结合，图像解释的定性方法（文献法）-通过反思身体的历史文化“制造”，为文化残疾研究知识做出贡献，并为英国和德国与残疾艺术相关的博物馆学的发展做出贡献。该项目的成果将是在柏林和米德尔斯堡举行的两次科学讨论会和两次展览，其中包括柏林和米德尔斯堡的2D艺术品和3D虚拟雕像等关键签名图像，以及由两个项目博士后提交的跨学科选集和研究论文。

This project is situated in the interrelated academic fields of Disability Studies and History, Disability Culture and Disability Art. The Principal Investigators (PI's) are Professor Dr McKeown (UK) and Professor Dr Musenberg (DE). Musenberg's research is situated at the intersection of History of the Discipline of Special Education, Cultural Disability Studies and inclusiveness in Historical Education. McKeown's research is situated in the fields of Art and Design, Disability Art and Disability History and Heritage. Disability Studies (and in the UK Disability Art) emerged from the emancipatory Disabled People's Movements of the 1970's and 1980's and was established in academia in the context of the social sciences. Cultural perspectives brought additional points of contact with e.g. Literary studies, Cultural History and Disability Culture and the Arts. For the purposes of this project we have aggregated and described our interests as reflected by Cultural Disability Studies. The project will view, analyse and disseminate a seminal body of disability and impairment related artworks collected and curated by the German disability pedagogue Hans Würtz (1875-1958) between 1910-1933 - a critical period in European history that saw the rise of National Socialism and its extreme attendant ableist and disableist thought and action. Würtz innovatively moved away from the prevailing medical perspective on impairments to a more cultural perspective that materialised in his outstanding collection both in regard to its size and content. The Collection, paradoxically, survived because the National Socialist authorities saw no value in it and allowed Würtz to remove the Collection to his place of exile in Czechoslovakia. Therefore the Collection survived in two Prague based archives. The largely unmapped collection comprises 180 pottery, ivory and wood statuettes; 3500 images in the form of drawings, cartoons, lithographs, engravings, reproductions from magazines and photographs; 20 paintings; Glass plate negatives which document elements of the collection. One of the main research question is, how impairment and disability is represented (and staged) in the Collection; across the whole assemblage and through the closer investigation of a selection of key items? Following this question our key objectives are - to make the Collection accessible for our research (capture the Collection in a digital form) and to view and organise the Collection in regard to its themes and topics, - to analyse a sample of images and sculptures regarding the staging and production of disability within the artworks - to combine art historical contextualisation and iconology of the Collection with an reconstructive, qualitative approach of image interpretation (documentary method) - to contribute to Cultural Disability Studies knowledge by reflecting on the historic culturally 'fabrication' of the body and to contribute to the development of museology in relation to Disability Arts in the UK and in Germany. The project's outcome will be two scientific colloquia and two exhibitions in Berlin and Middlesbrough featuring key signature images including 2D artworks and 3D virtual statuettes in Berlin and Middlesbrough, a transdisciplinary anthology and research papers submitted by the two project PostDocs.