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Speaker: Tristan Weddigen Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online

The Fabrication of the King: Charles Le Brun Reflecting on the Textile Medium

Semester Opening Lecture
Until recently the textile medium lacked a theory, which undermined its status as fine art in the academic discourse. However, being silent does not mean that it does not think. In early modern art, tapestry can reveal an aesthetic self-awareness of the textile medium which awaits to be fully explored and unfolded through the close reading and contextualization of works as singular phenomena with a potential of generalization. [more]
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