2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Historical-anthropological Study on Thinking / Memory Practices and Images in the European Medieval and Early-Modern Times
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19K00175
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Review Section |
Basic Section 01060:History of arts-related
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| Research Institution | Aoyama Gakuin University |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2019-04-01 – 2024-03-31
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| Keywords | ダイアグラム / 記憶術 / フラ・アンジェリコ / エクフラシス / 歴史人類学 / サン＝ヴィクトルのフーゴー / オピキヌス・デ・カネストリス / 否定神学 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This study reconsidered the concept of "art" established in the modern Western world, and reflect the role of "images" in medieval and early modern Christian culture from a historical-anthropological perspective. In particular, I paid attention to the diagrammatic images that were widely drawn in the Middle Ages, and I analyzed how "images" have actively influenced human thinking, memory, and imagination, and how they have lived as powerful actors in the spiritual training, biblical commentary, cultivation of virtue, mystical visions, and prophecies, that were all based on ancient “ars memoriae'' . Images that have traditionally been understood as "art" have been reconsidered from an anthropological perspective as something that cannot be separated from the practices of human thinking and memory, and the ontological relationship between humans and "images" has been clarified.
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| Free Research Field |
西洋美術史
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| Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
初期ルネサンスの画家フラ・アンジェリコの作品に描かれた特異な概念図を端緒として、初期キリスト教時代のエクフラシス（言語による絵）、そして中世の視覚文化に流布した記憶術的概念図にまで遡りながら、稀有な作例の発掘とともにダイアグラム的形象の系譜を解明し、そうした概念図が古来の記憶術に基づく霊的実践や思考のなかで担った固有の機能を明らかにしたことは、美術史や歴史学だけでなく、人類とイメージとの関係を存在論的に問い直す人類学的問いにも応答する学際性をそなえており、学術的意義を有する。美的価値にとどまらないイメージの豊かな機能を掘り起こすことは、社会一般のイメージ理解にも資する点で社会的意義を有する。
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