Boucher and the Decorative Arts: Promoting and Maintaining His Fame

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Boucher and the Decorative Arts: Promoting and Maintaining His Fame

A Françoise and Georges Selz Lecture on Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century French Decorative Arts and Culture by Pascal Bertrand (Université Bordeaux Montaigne)

September 20 at 6:00 pm

38 West 86th Street, Lecture Hall

public.humanities@bgc.bard.edu

$15 General | $12 Seniors | Free for people associated with a college or university, people with museum ID, people with disabilities and caregivers, and BGC members

 

In this lecture, Pascal Bertrand will explore the role of the decorative arts in the process of making and maintaining an artist's fame, using the example of the quintessentially Rococo painter François Boucher. Boucher's art was translated to a wide range of mediums—primarily tapestry and porcelain, but also gold and lacquer objects as well as printed fabrics and fans. How did he use these decorative arts to build his own reputation? And how did the decorative arts transmediate his paintings, prints, and drawings to disseminate them during his lifetime and preserve them after his death, right up to the present day? While the first question has been the subject of specific in-depth studies in one medium or another (porcelain in particular), Bertrand’s lecture considers the second question, and the significance of intermediality.

 

Bard Graduate Center is grateful for the generous support of the Selz Foundation.

 

Image: Perfume Vase. Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory, England, ca. 1761. New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

 

 

 

Date & Time

Wed, Sep 20, 2023 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM

Venue Details

Bard Graduate Center

38 West 86th Street
New York, New York 10024

Bard Graduate Center