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Metamorphosis and the Migration of Forms: Exploring the Sculptural Imagination in the Decorative Arts
| Location: | United Kingdom |
| Conference Date: | 2008-11-07 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2008-09-15 |
| Announcement ID: |
163999 |
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This international conference will further explore the overlaps between sculpture and the decorative arts it accompanies our Autumn exhibition Taking Shape: Finding Culture in the Decorative Arts.
There will be two gallery sessions in the exhibtion space and the following papers:
Mimi Hellman, Skidmore College, 'Forms of Distraction: Towards a Decorative Imagination'
Stacey Sloboda, Southern Illinois University, 'Material and Materialism: The Sculptural Aesthetics of Chinoiserie'
Claire Jones, University of York, 'Rationality and Creativity: Ornament and the Figurative in the Sculptural Imagination of Nineteenth-Century French Furniture'
Glenn Adamson, Victoria and Albert Museum, 'The Real and the Artificial in the Rococo'
Ethan Lasser, The Chipstone Foundation/ University of Wisconsin, 'Bombé Furniture and the Sculptural Imagination'
Camille Mestdagh, Sorbonne University, ‘Metamorphosis of 18th Century Features in Late 19th Century French Furniture’
Charissa Bremer-David, The J. Paul Getty Museum, ‘Ovid's Metamorphoses: Phillip IV of Spain's commissions of military and ceremonial armour’
To book your place on this conference please contact Kirstie Gregory, 0113 246 7467, kirstie@henry-moore.ac.uk
Conference Fee: £10/£5 concessions
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