Krauter Kellein, Anne; Mader, Franca (2022). The Digitale Kunst-Pforte: an interdisciplinary online platform for art technological source research and experimental reconstruction In: Oltrogge, Doris; Townsend, Joyce H.; Haack-Christensen, Anne; Stols-Witlox, Maartje (eds.) Reflecting on Reconstructions. The Role of Sources and Performative Methods in Art Technological Studies. Proceedings of the eighth symposium of the ICOM-CC working group on Art Technological Source Research, held at the Cologne Institute of Conservation (pp. 169-177). ICOM-CC Publications online
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Reconstruction as a means of furthering knowledge, based on the practical application of historical materials, techniques, and tools, has recently gained great importance in a range of subjects. In music, experimental archaeology, and medieval research the relevance of this method has also become apparent to the broader public.Art technological research has been practicing reconstructions based on art technological sources since the 19th century. General ideas on reconstructions, based on philosophy and the philosophy of science, are presented, linked to reconstruction as a signifcant empirical research method in art technology. A recently established database called the "Digitale Kunst-Pforte" is described. It brings together art technological sources and delivers information about historical manufacturing processes, predominantly derived from published books and images, as a tool for practical reconstructions. It supports reconstructions within teaching and research, illustrated by the example of students reconstructing “paste paper” after a historical recipe.
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Book Section (Book Chapter) |
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Division/Institute: |
Bern Academy of the Arts Bern Academy of the Arts > Institute Materiality in Art and Culture Bern Academy of the Arts > Institute Materiality in Art and Culture > Technology in Art and Culture |
Name: |
Krauter Kellein, Anne 0000-0003-3280-6722; Mader, Franca; Oltrogge, Doris; Townsend, Joyce H.; Haack-Christensen, Anne and Stols-Witlox, Maartje |
Subjects: |
N Fine Arts > N Visual arts (General) For photography, see TR T Technology > TT Handicrafts Arts and crafts |
ISBN: |
978-2-491997-42-7 |
Publisher: |
ICOM-CC Publications online |
Projects: |
[UNSPECIFIED] Die Erschliessung kunsttechnologischer Quellen in Schrift und Bild |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Anne Krauter Kellein |
Date Deposited: |
14 Nov 2023 15:12 |
Last Modified: |
14 Nov 2023 15:12 |
Additional Information: |
Historic sources (written, oral, but also images or instruments) provide important information on artists’ materials, techniques and methods of work. At least since the Comte de Caylus‘s 18th century attempt to understand a lost artistic technique – encaustic painting – by practical experiments on the basis of Pliny’s description of that Roman art, “reconstruction” has been a valuable companion in historical and philological research of art technological sources. It was not by accident that the first symposium of the Art Technological Source Research working group held in 2004 was devoted to Sources and Reconstructions. In recent years there have been interesting developments in the methodology of reconstruction and re-enactment. New questions have been posed, new disciplines have become involved. Therefore it seems only right to focus again on this topic and the state of the art, fifteen years after the establishment of the Art Technological Source Research group. The publications on the ICOM-CC Publications Online platform are available to individuals for private study, scholarship, and research purposes only. |
Uncontrolled Keywords: |
Reconstruction in art technology Art technological recipes Database "Digitale Kunstpforte" Art technological source research Experimental reconstruction Paste paper |
ARBOR DOI: |
10.24451/arbor.20309 |
URI: |
https://arbor.bfh.ch/id/eprint/20309 |
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