A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture
New York, New York
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Latest issue out now, featuring an article by Nicholas Thomas looking back at his seminal book "Entangled Objects" and a comparative essay on utopia throughout ancient Eurasia by Jas Elsner among others @BardGradCenter @UChicagoPress
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New Spring|Summer issue is out! Featuring articles by Esther Leslie, Andrea M. Ortuño, Hanna Chuchvaha, and @Sanchita_writes. #W86th #decarts #materialculture #designhist #culturesofconservation
For more on the troubling legacy of Leopold II, please revisit Debora Silverman’s three-part "Art Nouveau, Art of Darkness: African Lineages of Belgian Modernism": journals.uchicago.edu/doi/fu…. You’ll never see Belgian Art Nouveau the same way again. (Free temporary access.)
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Seventy years of Indian independence celebrated with summer exhibitions at the @FitzMuseum_UK cam.ac.uk/news/seventy-years…
Stay tuned as we continue our summer of travel visiting museums, exhibitions & events abroad! Where will we pop up next? #W86thAbroad
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Looking closely at porcelain from vast geographies/chronologies @FitzMuseum_UK w/ @_Helen_Ritchie & @CambridgeThings #emthings #W86thAbroad
Photos can't convey texture of incised dragon on this Ming bowl @FitzMuseum_UK (C.44-1962) #emthings #W86thAbroad webapps.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk…
And we were very happy to be there! With thanks to @CambridgeThings, the @FitzMuseum_UK, and Helen Ritchie for allowing us to take part! teapaw.org/SpoonsOnTrays/status/8…
Now we move behind the scenes with @CambridgeThings to view & handle objects from @FitzMuseum_UK! Get ready! #emthings #W86thAbroad
Ritchie highlights changing tastes for patterned porcelains in 19th C & its relationship to British studio pottery. #emthings #W86thAbroad
The @FitzMuseum_UK has recently acquired 360 pieces of Parian ware to be exhibited in 2018. #emthings #W86thAbroad fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/researc…
Ritchie discusses "Parian ware" a type of bisque porcelain imitating look of white marble from Paros. #emthings #W86thAbroad
Natural history publications became a major source for porcelain designs in the mid-18th C. Birds, flowers, animals. #emthings #W86thAbroad
Ritchie discusses 18th-C. European porcelain manufacture at Meissen and later by French & English manufactories. #emthings #W86thAbroad
Europeans describe porcelain as made of "juices of East." Augustus the Strong desired porcelain as much as oranges. 🍊 #emthings #W86thAbroad
Ritchie discusses the Chinese origins of "blue & white" & European fascination w/ porcelain in 16th C. #emthings #W86thAbroad
Ritchie begins w/ material components of porcelain taking us first on a visual tour of Kaolin mines in China. #emthings #W86thAbroad