פרופ' אסף פינקוס

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פרופ' אסף פינקוס
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מידע כללי

I am an art historian from Tel Aviv University; Professor Honorarium, University O f Vienna; Editor-in-Chief of the Tel Aviv University Press;  Head of the Multi- and Interdisciplinary Programs in the Arts (2018-2020); Chair of the Art History Department at Tel Aviv University (2012-2016); Director of the University Gallery (2013-2016|); Co-Head and Founder of the Photography Studies Program (2012-2016); Founder and Chair of the Tel Aviv Israeli Art Foundation (since 2014); and former Chair of IMAGO – The Israeli Association for Visual Culture of the Middle Ages. Between 2013-2016 I was appointed as an International Associate to the Board of Membership of the International Center of Medieval Art; and I am titular Israeli member of CIHA (Comité International d'Histoire de l'Art), and co-president of the Israeli committee.

I specialize in medieval figural arts, inquiring into questions of experience, spectatorship, and non-religious imaginative response to medieval imagery. My current theoretical concerns include questions of soma aesthetic, scale (relational sizing) and the formation of subjectivity.

In 2002 I completed my PhD with distinction at Tel Aviv University, engaging with the sculptural programs of St. Theobald in Thann (Workshops and Patrons of St. Theobald in Thann [Münster: Waxmann, 2006]). The monograph inquired into problems of artistic production, workshop routine, and medieval mass-sculpture, exploring the political agenda of the ecclesiastic and lay art commissioners animated in the imagery. From 2004 to 2006 I was a postdoctoral fellow at Freiburg University, where I embarked on a broader project dedicated to the Parler tympana at Augsburg, Freiburg, Schwäbisch Gmünd, Thann, and Ulm, concentrating on aspects of narrativity and spectatorship of late medieval sculpture (Patrons and Narratives of the Parler School [Munich: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2009]). The book was awarded a distinguished grant by the VGWort. Following this my symulachra project book, (Sculpting Simulacra in Medieval Germany, 1250–1380 [Farnham: Ashgate, 2014]), investigated the potential of an intuitive, imaginative, non-religious response to late medieval art, the research for which was carried out in collaboration with the Art History Institute at Vienna University. My last study (Visual Aggression: Images of Martyrdom in Late Medieval Germany [University Park, Pennsylvania: Penn State University Press, 2020]), engages with soma-aesthetics and bodily response to violence imagery and the history – philological, theological, and cultural – of violence. Another field of my expertise in Modern Christian Art in the Holy Land (Where the Word Became Flesh: The Basilica of the Annunciation in Nazareth [Cologne: De Gruyter, 2020]. Currently, I work on colossal imagery and the notion of “the Gigantic” in late medieval culture, exploring the role of “the Gigantic” in courtly poems and epics ,Norse Edda, travel literature, cartography and geography (Giants in the Medieval City [Turnhout: Brepols, 2024]). This project led to my Global (Art)History of Giants book (in progress) and the coining of the "Scaling Turn": the artistic, technological, and cultural manipulation of relational sizing that drastically altered the visual culture of the period, along with its theological and philosophical tenets.   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

קורות חיים

 

Awards and Grants

2020-2023

2018-2023

Erasmus+, HHU Düsseldorf-Strasbourg-Vienna-Warsaw

Israeli Science Foundation

2018 The Kadar Family Award for Outstanding Research
2016 Gerda Henkel Stiftung
2014 Israeli Science Foundation
2011 ICMA Sponsored Session at Leeds, International Center of Medieval Art, New York
2009 Rector's Prize, outstanding lecturer
2007-2010 Alon Fellowship for outstanding scholars
2009
German Israeli Foundation: Young Scientists’ Program
2007 VGWort distinguished grant for book publication
2004-2006
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft: Minerva Postdoctoral Fellowship, Freiburg University.
2005 Geschwister Boehringer Ingelheim Stiftung fuer Geisteswissenschaften: distinguished grant for book publication.
1999-2002 Rotenstreich Scholarship: PhD for distinguished candidates.
1998 Y. Bat-Miriam Grant: Excellence in Studies
1997 Dean's Award: BA magna cum laude
1995 DAAD
 
Academic position

2022-

2021-

2018-2023

Editor-in-Chief, Tel Aviv University Press

Professor Honorarium, Department of Art History, University of Vienna

Head of the Research Committee, Faculty of the Arts

2018 Visiting Professor, Institut für Kunsgeschichte, Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf​
2017- Head of the Multi- and Interdisciplinary Programs in the Arts
2016-2017 Reseach Fellow, Kunstgeschichtliches Institut, Goethe Universität Frankfurt​  
2015- Head of TIAF - The Tel Aviv Israeli Art Foundation
2014-2016 Membership Committee  ICMA
2013-2016 Director of the University Art Gallery
2013–2015  International Associate of ICMA
2012–2016 Chair of the Art History Department
2011

Research Fellow, Universität Wien

2009–2011

IMAGO, The Israeli Association for Visual Culture in the Middle Ages, Chairperson

2008  Universität Wien, Part-Time Lecturer
2007-present
Senior Lecturer, Tel Aviv University
2006–2010 Shenkar College of Engineering and Design, Senior Lecturer
2004-2006 Postdoctoral Fellow, Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg, project with collaboration of Prof. Wilhelm Schlink: "Patrons and Narratives of the Parler School"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

תחומי מחקר

I specialize in medieval figural arts, inquiring into questions of experience, spectatorship, and non-religious imaginative response to medieval imagery. My current theoretical concerns include questions of soma aesthetic, scale (relational sizing) and the formation of subjectivity.

In 2002 I completed my PhD with distinction at Tel Aviv University, engaging with the sculptural programs of St. Theobald in Thann (Workshops and Patrons of St. Theobald in Thann [Münster: Waxmann, 2006]). The monograph inquired into problems of artistic production, workshop routine, and medieval mass-sculpture, exploring the political agenda of the ecclesiastic and lay art commissioners animated in the imagery. From 2004 to 2006 I was a postdoctoral fellow at Freiburg University, where I embarked on a broader project dedicated to the Parler tympana at Augsburg, Freiburg, Schwäbisch Gmünd, Thann, and Ulm, concentrating on aspects of narrativity and spectatorship of late medieval sculpture (Patrons and Narratives of the Parler School [Munich: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2009]). The book was awarded a distinguished grant by the VGWort. Following this my symulachra project book, (Sculpting Simulacra in Medieval Germany, 1250–1380 [Farnham: Ashgate, 2014]), investigated the potential of an intuitive, imaginative, non-religious response to late medieval art, the research for which was carried out in collaboration with the Art History Institute at Vienna University. My last study (Visual Aggression: Images of Martyrdom in Late Medieval Germany [University Park, Pennsylvania: Penn State University Press, 2020]), engages with soma-aesthetics and bodily response to violence imagery and the history – philological, theological, and cultural – of violence. Another field of my expertise in Modern Christian Art in the Holy Land (Where the Word Became Flesh: The Basilica of the Annunciation in Nazareth [Cologne: De Gruyter, 2020]. Currently, I work on colossal imagery and the notion of “the Gigantic” in late medieval culture, exploring the role of “the Gigantic” in courtly poems and epics ,Norse Edda, travel literature, cartography and geography (Giants in the Medieval City [Turnhout: Brepols, 2024]). This project led to my Global (Art)History of Giants book (in progress) and the coining of the "Scaling Turn": the artistic, technological, and cultural manipulation of relational sizing that drastically altered the visual culture of the period, along with its theological and philosophical tenets.   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

פרסומים

Books and Monographs

Assaf Pinkus, Global (Art)History of Giants (in progress).  

 

Assaf Pinkus, Giants in the Medieval City (Turnout: Brepols, 2024).

 

Assaf Pinkus, Violence and Bodily Imagination: Images of Martyrdom in Late Medieval Germany (University Park, Pennsylvania: Penn State University Press, due 2020). 

 

Assaf Pinkus, Sculpting Simulacra in Medieval Germany, 1250-1380 (Burlington: Ashgate, 2014).

 

Assaf Pinkus, Patrons and Narratives of the Parler School. The Marian Tympana, 1350-1400. Kunstwissenschaftliche Sudien Band 151 (Berlin,  München: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2009).

 

Assaf Pinkus, Workshops and Patrons of St. Theobald in Thann (Münster, Berlin, New York: Waxmann Verlag, 2006).

 

Edited Volumes

Assaf Pinkus, with Christine Beier, and Tim Juckes, eds., How Do Images Work? (Tunhout: Berpols, 2022).

 

Assaf Pinkus, with Einat Segal, and Gil Fishhof, eds., Where the Word Became Flesh: The Basilica of the Annunciation in Nazareth (Cologne: De Gruyter, 2020).

 

Assaf Pinkus and Rivka Shusterman, New Sculptures on the Tel Aviv University Campus (Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University Press, 2017).

 

Assaf Pinkus and Tamar Cholcman, eds., The Sides of the North, An Anthology in Honor of Professor Yona Pinson (Cambridge: CambridgeScholars Publishing, 2015).

 

Selected Articles

Assaf Pinkus “Experiencing the Gigantic in Late Medieval Art,” Revista de Arte Medieval 37 (2021): 1–21.

Assaf Pinkus “ein rise starc unde grôz”: Temporalities of Salvation in St. Jakob in Kastelaz, Word & Image 35, no. 4 (2019): 347-66

Assaf Pinkus, "Verkörperte Imagination, imaginierte Körper: Die Martyrien des hl. Bartholomäus und der hl. Katharina in der rheinischen Kunst des Spätmittelalters, Zeitschrift des Deutschen Vereins für Kunstwissenschaft 72/73 (2019): 347–70.

Assaf Pinkus, “The Giant of Bremen: Roland and the “Colossus Imagination,” Speculum 93, no. 2 (2018): 387–429.

Assaf Pinkus, “Transformations in Wood: Between Sculpture and Painting in Late Medieval Devotional Objects in Germany,” Viator 48, no. 3 (2017): 263-91.

Assaf Pinkus, “Lost in Symulachra: The Living Statues on the Imperial Balcony in Mühlhausen,” Neue Frankfurter Forschungen zur Kunst 16  (2015): 384–400. 

Assaf Pinkus and Michal Ozeri, "For Body to Icon: The Life of Sts. Peter and Paul in the Murals of S. Piero a S. Piero a Grado," Convivium 2 (2014): 1–21.

Assaf Pinkus, “Guido da Sienna and the Four Modes of Violence,” in Death, Torture and the Broken Body in European Art, 1300-1650,  eds. John  Decker and Mitzi Kirkland-Ives (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2014),  24–43.

Assaf Pinkus, “Imaginative Responses to Gothic Sculpture: the Bamberg Rider,” Viator 45, no. 1 (2014): 1–30.

Assaf Pinkus, “Visual Aggression: The Martyrs’ Cycle in Schwäbisch Gmünd,” Gesta 52, no. 1 (2013): 43–59.

Assaf Pinkus, “The Founder Figures at Vienna Cathedral: Between Imago and Symulachrum,” Marburger Jahrbuch für Kunstwissenschat 40                  (2014): 63–92.

Assaf Pinkus, “Gothic Symulachra: The Naumburger Stifterfiguren,” in Der Naumburger Meister – Bildhauer und Architekt im Europa der Kathedralen, vol. 3, ed. Guido Siebert (Petersberg; Imhof, 2013), 204–17.

Assaf Pinkus, “The Womb and the Eye: Viewing the Shrine Madonna,” Arte Medievale 4, no. 2 (2012): 223–42.

Assaf Pinkus, “Violence and Sacredness in Fourteenth-Century Art,” Zmanim 118 (2011): 32–41 (Hebrew).

Assaf Pinkus, “Voyeuristic Stimuli: Seeing and Hearing in Giotto's Painting,” Wiener Jahrbuch Für Kunstgeschichte LIX (2010): 7–26.

Assaf Pinkus, "Giottus Pictor: Review Essay," Kunstchronik 63, no. 4, (2010): 165–72.

Assaf Pinkus, Parler Lapicide,” online article and exhibition, ICMA, Princeton University, http://medievalart.org/?page_id=787

Assaf Pinkus, “The Italian Connection: On the Origins of the Parler Art,” Assaph. Studies in Art History 12 (2008): 63–102.

Assaf Pinkus “The Parler School of Southwestern Germany: a Reconsideration of 14th Century Workshops and Mass Sculpture,” Zeitschrift des Deutschen Vereins für Kunstwissenschaft 61 (2007): 49–80.

Assaf Pinkus, “The Patron Hidden in the Narrative: Eve and Johanna at St. Theobald in Thann,” Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, 70, no.1 (2007): 23–54.

Assaf Pinkus, “L’art des Parler: l’église Saint-Thiébaut de Thann au temps des Habsbourg,” Thann. Petite et Grande Histoire 21 (2006): 12–20.

Assaf Pinkus, “The German in the Parler Art: Narratives of South German Gothic Sculpture,” in: Pictorial Languages and their Meanings, eds. Christine B. Verzar and Gil Fishhof (Tel Aviv, 2006), 185–202.

Assaf Pinkus, “Das Schöpfungsportal: Kunst und Lehre im mittelalterlichen Freiburg,” Münsterblatt 13 (2006): 4–12.

Assaf Pinkus, “Rudolf’s Journey: Art Patronage and Politics in the St. Theobald Minster in Thann,” Wallraf-Richartz-Jahrbuch 65 (2004): 273–88.

 

 

 

 

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