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New Light on the Sistine Chapel

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VISUAL REPRESENTATION, MATERIALITY, AND MEDIUM SPEAKERS: Maria Loh, Princeton Institute for Advanced Study Maria H. Loh is Professor in Art History at CUNY Hunter College. She received her BA in History from McGill University (1993), a Certificat des...

Impressionist Form: An Environmental History

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VISUAL REPRESENTATION, MATERIALITY, AND MEDIUM SPEAKERS: Harmon Siegel, Harvard Society of Fellows In the early 1870s, Camille Pissarro and Alfred Sisley painted the Machine de Marly, a system of pumps, dams, and locks that regulated the Seine. These...

Food and Art, a meditation

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VISUAL REPRESENTATION, MATERIALITY, AND MEDIUM SPEAKERS: Holly Shaffer, Brown University What is the relationship between taste (culinary) and taste (aesthetic)? This talk meditates on the intersections of food and art, in terms of material processes of...

Degas on Filth, Heft, and the Matter of Making

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VISUAL REPRESENTATION, MATERIALITY, AND MEDIUM SPEAKERS: Michelle Foa, Tulane Univeristy During Edgar Degas’s lifetime, certain friends, colleagues, and critics perceptively identified his propensity for technical and material experimentation—using an...

Modern Art and the Remaking of Human Disposition

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VISUAL REPRESENTATION, MATERIALITY, AND MEDIUM SPEAKERS: Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen, The Clark Art Institute This talk will explore the claim that, in Europe in the decades around 1900, new understandings of human consciousness and the relation of mind to...

Making and Unmaking the Rococo Street

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VISUAL REPRESENTATION, MATERIALITY, AND MEDIUM SPEAKERS: Katie Scott, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London Beauty was a major theme of the early modern discourse on the city and a prime objective of city administrations. This lecture explores the roles...