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Mission of the Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities - Money, Power, and the History of Art
The Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities aims to encourage scholars to unearth meanings assigned by different cultures, past and current, on what they consider as works of art. It believes that the insights garnered from these researches would be of use in understanding or molding present and future developments in art. Through its grants, it releases the scholars from mundane obligations and helps them focus on their research work. It nurtures an environment wherein scholars could freely exchange ideas which further broaden their perspectives.See the full content of this document
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As a historian who had concentrated on the history of philosophy and the theory of history, I was more than a little surprised when in 1994 I received an invitation to be a resident scholar at the Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities. As I learned more about the Scholars Program, however, it seemed to be an ideal environment in which to spend an academic year concentrating on my project on the conceptualization of memory disorders in nineteenth-century France. Since the other scholars and fellows in residence that year were also working on memory, I anticipated a rich exchange of ideas and research. At the time, I wasn't thinking about how my own work was related to "the history of art," nor about how it might contribute to the int...
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