Consuming Images, Constructing Selves: Europe and the Orient in the 18th Century
Wednesday, February 14, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
West Ballroom, 3rd Floor, Hilton New York
Chairs: Nebahat Avcioglu, Institute for Scholars, Columbia University; Finbarr Barry Flood, New York University
Jean-Étienne Liotard, the Turkish Painter
Kristel Smentek, Frick Collection
Piranesi, the Aesthetic of Eclecticism, and His Stile Egiziano
Sarah Lawrence, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum
James Gillray’s China: A Late Mercantile Critique
Douglas Fordham, University of Virginia
Contesting the Exotic: Taste, Collecting, Empire, 1750–95
Natasha Eaton, University College, London
Performing Cross-Cultural Encounters in 18th-Century Venice: Andrea Brustolon’s Allegory of Strength
Erin Campbell, University of Victoria
On Seeing and Viewing in Early 18th-Century Isfahan
Renata Holod, University of Pennsylvania