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Anne-Kathrin Hinz
From 2009 to 2015, Anne-Kathrin Hinz studied Communication Studies and Art History, focusing on image studies and 20th century art. She worked as a student and graduate assistant at the Chair of Art History and at the History of Art Department at the University of Jena. In her master’s thesis titled “Am Bildgrund. Reflexionen über die Konventionen des Bildes in der amerikanischen Kunst nach 1945“ [At the Bottom of the Image. Reflexions on the Conventions of the image in American Art after 1945], Hinz analysed various artistic and theoretical approaches to the perception of an object as an image. From 2016 to 2019 she has been a research associate and doctoral candidate at the Europäisches Kolleg Jena.
Research project
Representing History via Abstract Art (working title)
Can abstract art represent history? A systematic investigation of this question has yet to be done. Given the multitude of abstract pieces of art with historical references, it is an even more pressing gap.
The project seeks to fill this perceived necessity. Based on the assumption that abstract art is a specific means of representing history, the study will ask questions about the ways art can represent history. So far, research is shaped by various specific and interdisciplinary discourses, focussing mainly on the question of whether abstract art can represent history or not. However, it has been neglected that processing history via abstract art is a complex process of interaction of aesthetic means with contextual factors such as titling, commenting and its reception.
The dissertation project will investigate works of abstract painting, created in Germany from the 1940s to the 1980s. The analysis will combine aspects of aesthetic visual forms and its historical context, thus enabling the comparison of various abstract strategies of painting, and presenting a new approach to the question how abstract art represents history.
Research interests
Visual theory focusing on post-1945 art
Theory and history of photography
Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts
Visualising and processing historical events via art
Select publications
Markenzeichen. Die erste Fotografie der „Minerva mit Helm“, in: Babett Forster (Hrsg.): Wertvoll. Objekte der Kunstvermittlung: Gipsabgüsse, Fotografien, Postkarten, Diapositive, Weimar 2015, pp. 56-62.
Co-author of the article: Zwischen Sein und Schein des Bildes. Die „Jena Bilder“ von Imi Knoebel, in: Babett Forster/Claudia Tittel (Hrsg.): Serielle Materialität. Imi Knoebel und Peter Roehr, Ausst.-Kat, Gera 2013, pp. 30-39.