Getty Research Grants 2007 The Application Form Residential Grants at the www.getty.edu Getty Research Institute Getty Scholar and Visiting Scholar Grants

Purpose

Getty Scholar and Visiting Scholar Grants provide a unique research experience. Recipients are in residence at either the Getty Research Institute or the in Malibu, where they pursue their own projects free from academic obligations, make use of Getty collections, join their colleagues in a weekly meeting devoted to the 2007–8 theme of Change, and participate in the intellectual life of the Getty.

Eligibility

These grants are for established scholars, artists, or writers who have attained distinction in their fields. Applications are welcome from researchers of all nationalities who are working in the arts, humanities, or social sciences.

Terms

Getty Scholars—Getty Scholars are in residence for the entire academic year (from September 2007 to June 2008). A salary- replacement stipend is awarded equivalent to the applicant’s current academic base salary, up to a maximum of $75,000. The grant also includes an office at the Getty Research Institute or the Getty Villa, research assistance, airfare to and from , an apartment in the Getty scholar housing complex, and health benefits.

Visiting Scholars—Visiting Scholars are in residence for a three-month term. A monthly stipend of $3,500 is awarded, prorated to the actual dates of residency. The grant also includes an office at the Getty Research Institute or the Getty Villa, research assistance, airfare to and from Los Angeles, and an apartment in the Getty scholar housing complex.

Application Deadline

Completed application materials must be received in the Foundation office on or before November 1, 2006. We regret that incomplete or late applications (those received after November 1, regardless of postmark date or place of origin) cannot be accepted for consideration. Unfortunately, we cannot accept applications hand-delivered to the or those sent by e-mail or fax. Application materials cannot be returned.

Notification

Applicants will be notified of the Research Institute’s decision by spring 2007.

Review Process

Getty Scholar and Visiting Scholar Grants are awarded on a competitive basis. Applications will be evaluated by the Getty Research Institute based on: (1) how the proposed project bears upon the 2007–8 Scholar Year theme, Change; (2) the applicant’s past achievements; and (3) how the project would benefit from the resources at the Getty, including its library and collections. Application Instructions

A. Provide one original and five copies (for a total of six sets) of the following application materials and collate each set in the order listed below. PLEASE DO NOT USE STAPLES OR SPECIAL BINDING MATERIALS; clips or rubber bands are sufficient.

1. Information Sheet: Fill out completely and sign.

2. Project Proposal: Each application must include a description of the applicant’s proposed plan for study and research (not to exceed five pages, typed and double-spaced). The description should indicate (1) how the project bears upon the 2007–8 Scholar Year theme, Change; and (2) how the project would be advanced by the resources at the Getty, including its library and collections.

3. Curriculum Vitae

4. Selected Bibliography (not to exceed two pages, typed and single-spaced): Cite scholarly works, other than your own, that are important to the project and place the project in its intellectual framework.

5. Writing Sample (optional): Applicants are welcome to submit samples (articles, book chapters, slides, or other written or creative work not to exceed twenty pages) in support of their proposals. Please remember to include five copies and note that application materials will not be returned.

Note: No letters of recommendation are required for the Getty Scholar/Visiting Scholar Grants.

B. Acknowledgment Card: Print your name and address on the front of the Acknowledgment Card and enclose it with your application materials. This card will be mailed to you when your application is received. (APPLICATIONS DOWNLOADED FROM OUR WEB SITE DO NOT INCLUDE AN ACKNOWLEDGMENT CARD. Applicants using these forms should enclose a self-addressed envelope or postcard with their completed application. The envelope or postcard will be returned when the application is received.) Acknowledgment of receipt does not guarantee your application’s eligibility.

Send completed application materials to:

Getty Scholar and Visiting Scholar Grants The Getty Foundation 1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 800 Los Angeles, California 90049-1685 U.S.A.

Inquiries

Additional information about both residential and nonresidential Getty Research Grants is available online at www.getty.edu/grants/research/scholars or from the Foundation office (address above), 310 440.7374 (phone), 310 440.7703 (fax), or [email protected] (e-mail). Getty Research Grants 2007 The Getty Research Institute Information Sheet Residential Grants at the www.getty.edu Getty Research Institute Getty Scholar and Visiting Scholar Grants

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Signature Date Getty Research Grants 2007 The Getty Research Institute 2007–8 Residential Grants at the Getty Research Institute www.getty.edu Getty Research Getty Scholar and Institute Theme Visiting Scholar Grants

Change

There was a time when art history seemed to be all about grand narratives of change: in particular, the emergence of striking episodes of naturalism from backgrounds of schematic convention. The sudden capture of accurate human anatomy and movement in the Greek sculpture of the fifth century BCE provides the paradigm. There follow, to name the most prominent, the eruption of monumental Romanesque sculpture on the threshold of the twelfth century; the successive Italian Renaissance from Giotto to Michelangelo; the capture of optical sensation by the French Impressionists; and the Cubists’ confounding of over-simple sensory maps.

All these will strike familiar chords for those schooled in the art history of a previous generation. But such signposts have fallen into disrepair as grand narratives of progress and discovery have collapsed in the face of a withering skepticism across the humanities. And it remains demonstrably the case that the past celebration of such episodes entailed a regular invocation of questionable external causes; great men (or the cult of great men), economic and social determination, or some innate propensity of the mind toward “matching” any image against the evidence of perception. A teleological thinking haunted the whole enterprise.

As a result, scholars concerned with the visual arts now largely direct their energies toward intensified interpretations of artistic events that are circumscribed in time and localized in significance. Thus the fundamental responsibility of any historian—to account for change—has been increasingly left to one side, bracketed in effect. Plainly, if change is to come back to the intellec- tual forefront, new models describing its logic and regularities will be required. And these will, on balance, need to be internal to the specific processes of art production rather than external to them. Recent theoretical work in the realm of emergence and complexity across the natural and social sciences may offer some useful guidance in this pursuit. But the question remains open: can change—by definition an object of inquiry that exists between and above the physical objects of art-historical investigation —come back to its former centrality? How would that be accomplished? And is it necessary at all?