Overview
This theme-based resident fellowship program, established with the support of the Ahmanson Foundation of Los Angeles and the J. Paul Getty Trust, is designed to encourage the participation of junior scholars in the Center's yearlong core programs.
The core program for year 2010–2011:
Cultures of Aestheticism—Before and After Oscar Wilde
directed by by Clark Professor Joseph Bristow (UCLA)
Value of this fellowship
Stipend: $37,500 for the three-quarter period together with paid medical benefits for scholar.
The program, which is based at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, invites applications from humanities scholars whose research interests relate to the ways in which post-Kantian traditions develop theories and practices that address beliefs in l’art pour l’art. In its European and North American manifestations, late nineteenth-century aestheticism set in place the enduringly polemical position that art should have no obligation to instruct or improve anyone.
In many respects, the most influential figure to emerge from the aesthetic movement is the Irish writer, Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), whose volatile career points to conflicts that characteristically arise when art and morality collide. The Clark Library holds the largest archive relating to Wilde and his immediate circle. The fellowships will be of particular interest to scholars who wish to make use of the extensive resources of the archive.
Cultures of Aestheticism will feature a series of conferences that cover a fairly broad historical span, starting with the emergence of British assimilations of ideas about (from French sources such as Théophile Gautier) in the 1850s and 1860s to the legacies of the Aesthetic Movement to interwar and post-war cultures around the world. The critical questions raised by aestheticism reverberate through many of the most decisive interventions into critiques of aesthetics (notably Theodor Adorno’s Aesthetic Ideology), and their reappearance is evident in recent postmodern debates about “the new aestheticism.” The conference series will address the growth of l’art pour l’art in ways that expand our understanding of this movement beyond its more familiar cultural, disciplinary, and geo-political contexts.
Eligibiliy Requirements
Scholars will need to have received their doctorates in the last six years, (no earlier than July 1, 2004 and no later than September 30, 2010). Scholars whose research pertains to the announced theme are eligible to apply. Fellows are expected to make a substantive contribution to the Center’s workshops and seminars. Awards are for three consecutive quarters in residence at the Clark. If prospective applicants have any questions about the fellowship, they are welcome to send them to Professor Bristow at jbristow@humnet.ucla.edu
Contact
Ms. Fritze Rodic
10745 Dickson Plaza
310 Royce Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1404
Phone: (310)206-8552
Fax: (310)206-8577
Email: frodic@humnet.ucla.edu
Visit the website at http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/
Please kindly mention Scholarization.blogspot.com when applying for this fellowship
This theme-based resident fellowship program, established with the support of the Ahmanson Foundation of Los Angeles and the J. Paul Getty Trust, is designed to encourage the participation of junior scholars in the Center's yearlong core programs.
The core program for year 2010–2011:
Cultures of Aestheticism—Before and After Oscar Wilde
directed by by Clark Professor Joseph Bristow (UCLA)
Value of this fellowship
Stipend: $37,500 for the three-quarter period together with paid medical benefits for scholar.
The program, which is based at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, invites applications from humanities scholars whose research interests relate to the ways in which post-Kantian traditions develop theories and practices that address beliefs in l’art pour l’art. In its European and North American manifestations, late nineteenth-century aestheticism set in place the enduringly polemical position that art should have no obligation to instruct or improve anyone.
In many respects, the most influential figure to emerge from the aesthetic movement is the Irish writer, Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), whose volatile career points to conflicts that characteristically arise when art and morality collide. The Clark Library holds the largest archive relating to Wilde and his immediate circle. The fellowships will be of particular interest to scholars who wish to make use of the extensive resources of the archive.
Cultures of Aestheticism will feature a series of conferences that cover a fairly broad historical span, starting with the emergence of British assimilations of ideas about (from French sources such as Théophile Gautier) in the 1850s and 1860s to the legacies of the Aesthetic Movement to interwar and post-war cultures around the world. The critical questions raised by aestheticism reverberate through many of the most decisive interventions into critiques of aesthetics (notably Theodor Adorno’s Aesthetic Ideology), and their reappearance is evident in recent postmodern debates about “the new aestheticism.” The conference series will address the growth of l’art pour l’art in ways that expand our understanding of this movement beyond its more familiar cultural, disciplinary, and geo-political contexts.
Eligibiliy Requirements
Scholars will need to have received their doctorates in the last six years, (no earlier than July 1, 2004 and no later than September 30, 2010). Scholars whose research pertains to the announced theme are eligible to apply. Fellows are expected to make a substantive contribution to the Center’s workshops and seminars. Awards are for three consecutive quarters in residence at the Clark. If prospective applicants have any questions about the fellowship, they are welcome to send them to Professor Bristow at jbristow@humnet.ucla.edu
Contact
Ms. Fritze Rodic
10745 Dickson Plaza
310 Royce Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1404
Phone: (310)206-8552
Fax: (310)206-8577
Email: frodic@humnet.ucla.edu
Visit the website at http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/
Please kindly mention Scholarization.blogspot.com when applying for this fellowship
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