Past Events
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Spring 2013: Research Lunches
18 January to 8 March 2013
Spring 2013: Research Lunches
Research Lunch – Jonny Yarker
Paul Mellon Centre
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Pocket-book imagery in the paper collections of Sarah Sophia Banks (1744-1818)
21 June 2013
Pocket-book imagery in the paper collections of Sarah Sophia Banks (1744-1818)
Research Lunch – Arlene Leis
Paul Mellon Centre
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Redressing William Etty (1787-1849)
11 October 2013
Redressing William Etty (1787-1849)
Research Lunch – Beatrice Bertram
Paul Mellon Centre
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Quacks, Peddlars and Pastellists: Jean-Etienne Liotard (1702-1789) and Jean-Baptiste Perronneau (1715-1783) in London
1 November 2013
Quacks, Peddlars and Pastellists: Jean-Etienne Liotard (1702-1789) and Jean-Baptiste Perronneau (1715-1783) in London
Research Lunch – Francesca Whitlum-Cooper
Paul Mellon Centre
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Spring 2014: Research Lunches
24 January to 14 March 2014
Spring 2014: Research Lunches
Research Lunch
Paul Mellon Centre
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James Hakewill and the Politics of Slavery
7 March 2014
James Hakewill and the Politics of Slavery
Research Lunch – Sarah Thomas
Paul Mellon Centre
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Art World Dissidents and their Alternative Identities: Art & Language, Bob and Roberta Smith, Spartacus Chetwynd and Lucky PDF
14 March 2014
Art World Dissidents and their Alternative Identities: Art & Language, Bob and Roberta Smith, Spartacus Chetwynd and Lucky PDF
Research Lunch – Nicola McCartney
Paul Mellon Centre
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Summer 2014 Research Lunches
1 May to 11 July 2014
Summer 2014 Research Lunches
Research Lunch
Paul Mellon Centre
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Copying Gainsborough: Paul Sandby and the refashioning of his artistic identity
3 October 2014
Copying Gainsborough: Paul Sandby and the refashioning of his artistic identity
Research Lunch – Rosie Razzall
Paul Mellon Centre
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Dialectics of Liberation: Kinetic Theatre and Strategies of Resistance
17 October 2014
Dialectics of Liberation: Kinetic Theatre and Strategies of Resistance
Research Lunch – Sylvie Simonds
Paul Mellon Centre
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‘To Illustrate the Beautiful and Noble’: The Drawings of George Frederic Watts
14 November 2014
‘To Illustrate the Beautiful and Noble’: The Drawings of George Frederic Watts
Research Lunch – Chloe Kroeter
Paul Mellon Centre
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Nicholas Hawksmoor, Oxford, and Eighteenth-Century Europe
28 November 2014
Nicholas Hawksmoor, Oxford, and Eighteenth-Century Europe
Research Lunch – Eleonora Pistis
Paul Mellon Centre
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Heads and Hands: Josiah Wedgwood's Jasper Portrait Medallions
13 November 2015
Heads and Hands: Josiah Wedgwood's Jasper Portrait Medallions
Research Lunch – Brigid von Preussen
Paul Mellon Centre
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Statements of artistic identity in Vanessa Bell’s self-portraits
20 November 2015
Statements of artistic identity in Vanessa Bell’s self-portraits
Research Lunch – Hana Leaper
Paul Mellon Centre
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The Scougall Family, Scottish Portraiture of the Restoration Period
27 November 2015
The Scougall Family, Scottish Portraiture of the Restoration Period
Research Lunch – Carla van de Puttelaar
Paul Mellon Centre
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Cross Paths and Currents: Cubist and Constructive work in wartime St Ives
15 January 2016
Cross Paths and Currents: Cubist and Constructive work in wartime St Ives
Research Lunch – Rachel Rose Smith
Paul Mellon Centre
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Primitive forms and prospects: geological landscapes in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain
5 February 2016
Primitive forms and prospects: geological landscapes in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain
Research Lunch – Allison Ksiazkiewicz
Paul Mellon Centre
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Peaks and Pencils: Victorian Illustrations and Paintings of the Dolomite Mountains
19 February 2016
Peaks and Pencils: Victorian Illustrations and Paintings of the Dolomite Mountains
Research Lunch – William Bainbridge
Paul Mellon Centre
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Screening and discussion of ‘Trewyn Studio’, a new film on Barbara Hepworth’s studio-museum
26 February 2016
Screening and discussion of ‘Trewyn Studio’, a new film on Barbara Hepworth’s studio-museum
Research Lunch – Helena Bonett, Jonathan Law
Paul Mellon Centre
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With dots and rays: Autochrome photography and artistic expression in Britain
11 March 2016
With dots and rays: Autochrome photography and artistic expression in Britain
Research Lunch – Caroline Fuchs
Paul Mellon Centre
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Ambitious Architecture: Rethinking the meanings of Blenheim Palace
20 May 2016
Ambitious Architecture: Rethinking the meanings of Blenheim Palace
Research Lunch – James Legard
Paul Mellon Centre
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Inquisitive Eyes: Recovering a Lost Chapter in British Art
27 May 2016
Inquisitive Eyes: Recovering a Lost Chapter in British Art
Research Lunch – Gwen Yarker
Paul Mellon Centre
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Philip Alexius de László: A Catalogue Raisonné in Progress
10 June 2016
Philip Alexius de László: A Catalogue Raisonné in Progress
Research Lunch – Katherine Field
Paul Mellon Centre
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Collecting watercolours: questions of landscape and Englishness, c. 1890-1914
24 June 2016
Collecting watercolours: questions of landscape and Englishness, c. 1890-1914
Research Lunch – Jessica Feather
Paul Mellon Centre
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"Curiously Engraven from the Life": Animating the Body in Late Seventeenth-Century London
14 October 2016
"Curiously Engraven from the Life": Animating the Body in Late Seventeenth-Century London
Research Lunch – Sophie Morris
Paul Mellon Centre
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Breaking down the South London Art Group's A Woman's Place (1974)
21 October 2016
Breaking down the South London Art Group's A Woman's Place (1974)
Research Lunch – Amy Tobin
Paul Mellon Centre
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Private View: 'A particularly soft English hardback'
11 November 2016
Private View: 'A particularly soft English hardback'
Research Lunch – Lisa Tickner
Paul Mellon Centre
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‘Did Babel e’er rise faster?’: the changing image of Brighton, 1820–50
25 November 2016
‘Did Babel e’er rise faster?’: the changing image of Brighton, 1820–50
Research Lunch – Amy Concannon
Paul Mellon Centre
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Promoting Pastel: exhibitions of the pastel medium in late nineteenth century Britain
9 December 2016
Promoting Pastel: exhibitions of the pastel medium in late nineteenth century Britain
Research Lunch – Freya Spoor
Paul Mellon Centre
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The Work of Artists
25 January 2017
The Work of Artists
Research Lunch – Thomas Crow, Helena Bonett, Vid Simoniti, Alexander Massouras, Elena Crippa
Paul Mellon Centre
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The Great British Gatehouse: Ready, Get Set, Build!
17 February 2017
The Great British Gatehouse: Ready, Get Set, Build!
Research Lunch – Rodolfo Acevedo Rodriguez
Paul Mellon Centre
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Concealment & Deception: The Art of the Camoufleurs of Leamington Spa, 1939-1945
10 March 2017
Concealment & Deception: The Art of the Camoufleurs of Leamington Spa, 1939-1945
Research Lunch – Chloe Johnson, Jeff Watkin
Paul Mellon Centre
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Italy revisited – Nino Costa (1826-1903) and the Etruscan School of Art
17 March 2017
Italy revisited – Nino Costa (1826-1903) and the Etruscan School of Art
Research Lunch – Arnika Groenewald-Schmidt
Paul Mellon Centre
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Samuel Wale's book illustrations: Designing Historical Panoramas in Georgian London
31 March 2017
Samuel Wale's book illustrations: Designing Historical Panoramas in Georgian London
Research Lunch – Isabelle Baudino
Paul Mellon Centre
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‘Don’t Look Back in Anger’: Art at Court in the Aftermath of the Barons’ War, 1258-1266
12 May 2017
‘Don’t Look Back in Anger’: Art at Court in the Aftermath of the Barons’ War, 1258-1266
Research Lunch – Laura Slater
Paul Mellon Centre
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Iconography on the Edge/s: constructing space and the sacred in Anglo-Saxon England
26 May 2017
Iconography on the Edge/s: constructing space and the sacred in Anglo-Saxon England
Research Lunch – Meg Boulton
Paul Mellon Centre
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'An intense consciousness of the present': Ruskin, Pater and the drawing of modern life
2 June 2017
'An intense consciousness of the present': Ruskin, Pater and the drawing of modern life
Research Lunch – Thomas Hughes
Paul Mellon Centre
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Catholic emancipation, Daniel O’Connell (1775-1847) and the Catholic Association in print: Satirical Printmaking in Dublin in the late 1820s
16 June 2017
Catholic emancipation, Daniel O’Connell (1775-1847) and the Catholic Association in print: Satirical Printmaking in Dublin in the late 1820s
Research Lunch – Carly Hegenbarth
Paul Mellon Centre
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Talks by Greg Salter and Sophie Hatchwell
23 June 2017
Talks by Greg Salter and Sophie Hatchwell
Research Lunch – Gregory Salter, Sophie Hatchwell
Paul Mellon Centre
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Forming a Community: Siegfried Charoux’s <i>Maquette for The Neighbours</i> (1957–59)
13 October 2017
Forming a Community: Siegfried Charoux’s Maquette for The Neighbours (1957–59)
Research Lunch – Melanie Veasey
Paul Mellon Centre
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Frederick Walker and the Idyllists – Unsung Masters of Victorian Art
17 November 2017
Frederick Walker and the Idyllists – Unsung Masters of Victorian Art
Research Lunch
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'Your Beautiful and Hopeful Family’: Dynasty, Duff House And the House of Duff
24 November 2017
'Your Beautiful and Hopeful Family’: Dynasty, Duff House And the House of Duff
Research Lunch – Helen Whiting
Paul Mellon Centre
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‘The Last Sad Testimony of Affection’: Portraiture as Remembrance in Eighteenth-Century Britain
8 December 2017
‘The Last Sad Testimony of Affection’: Portraiture as Remembrance in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Research Lunch – Emily Knight
Paul Mellon Centre
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Re-assessing ‘liveliness’ in Post-Reformation English visual culture
19 January 2018
Re-assessing ‘liveliness’ in Post-Reformation English visual culture
Research Lunch – Christina J Faraday
Paul Mellon Centre
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The Commonwealth Institute: Contexts, Collaborations, Contestations
1 February 2018
The Commonwealth Institute: Contexts, Collaborations, Contestations
Research Lunch
Paul Mellon Centre
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‘Nor is the figure a mere theatrical portrait’: Exhibiting and Reproducing Theatrical Portraits in London, 1830 – 1860
2 February 2018
‘Nor is the figure a mere theatrical portrait’: Exhibiting and Reproducing Theatrical Portraits in London, 1830 – 1860
Research Lunch – Tessa Kilgarriff
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Public Art and its Publics in Post-War Britain
16 February 2018
Public Art and its Publics in Post-War Britain
Research Lunch – Robert Sutton
Paul Mellon Centre
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Cruikshank's Alcoholics and The Addict in Austerity
2 March 2018
Cruikshank's Alcoholics and The Addict in Austerity
Research Lunch – Susannah Walker
Paul Mellon Centre
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AS in DS: The World of Alison Smithson
11 May 2018
AS in DS: The World of Alison Smithson
Research Lunch – Giulia Smith
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Art History From Below: The Demotic Portraits of a Journeyman Facemaker
18 May 2018
Art History From Below: The Demotic Portraits of a Journeyman Facemaker
Research Lunch – David Hansen
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Perceiving Prints in 18th Print Rooms: Commerce, Play and Display
25 May 2018
Perceiving Prints in 18th Print Rooms: Commerce, Play and Display
Research Lunch – Louise Voll Box
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Travellers and Translators: The Returning Indian Turban as East India Company Uniform, c.1760-1810
8 June 2018
Travellers and Translators: The Returning Indian Turban as East India Company Uniform, c.1760-1810
Research Lunch – Beth Richards
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The Lost Collection: Charles I and Whitehall Palace, A Digital Initiative
22 June 2018
The Lost Collection: Charles I and Whitehall Palace, A Digital Initiative
Research Lunch – Niko Munz
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Ancient Sculpture & the Narratives of Collecting: (Re)Contextualising the Collection & Display of Classical Art in Britain
5 October 2018
Ancient Sculpture & the Narratives of Collecting: (Re)Contextualising the Collection & Display of Classical Art in Britain
Research Lunch – Nicole Cochrane
Paul Mellon Centre
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Neo-classical Display in the Suburbs: Recreating a Lost Adam Garden Temple Built for George Bubb Dodington
26 October 2018
Neo-classical Display in the Suburbs: Recreating a Lost Adam Garden Temple Built for George Bubb Dodington
Research Lunch – Clare Hornsby, Rodolfo Acevedo Rodriguez
Paul Mellon Centre
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From London to Paris: Defining the British School Through Printmaking
2 November 2018
From London to Paris: Defining the British School Through Printmaking
Research Lunch – Alice Ottazzi
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The Central School of Arts and Crafts: An ‘informal nucleus’ of Collaborative Practices in Post-War London
16 November 2018
The Central School of Arts and Crafts: An ‘informal nucleus’ of Collaborative Practices in Post-War London
Research Lunch – Rosie Ram
Paul Mellon Centre
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**CANCELLED** The Earl, his heir and their psalter: the patrons and artist of the Ormesby Psalter and East Anglian medieval painting
11 January 2019
**CANCELLED** The Earl, his heir and their psalter: the patrons and artist of the Ormesby Psalter and East Anglian medieval painting
Research Lunch – Dr Frederica Law Turner
Paul Mellon Centre
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The Duchess of Portland’s Museum-Salon: Bluestocking Collecting, Craft and Conversation, c. 1770-1786
25 January 2019
The Duchess of Portland’s Museum-Salon: Bluestocking Collecting, Craft and Conversation, c. 1770-1786
Research Lunch – Madeleine Pelling
Paul Mellon Centre
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Sublime Symmetry: The Mathematics Behind William De Morgan’s Designs
8 February 2019
Sublime Symmetry: The Mathematics Behind William De Morgan’s Designs
Research Lunch – Sarah Hardy
Paul Mellon Centre
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The Magic Hand of Chance: Reframing Modern Textiles in the Interwar Shop
22 February 2019
The Magic Hand of Chance: Reframing Modern Textiles in the Interwar Shop
Research Lunch – Lotte Crawford
Paul Mellon Centre
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In Search of the Landscape Artists’ Studio: Database and Map of London 1780-1850
8 March 2019
In Search of the Landscape Artists’ Studio: Database and Map of London 1780-1850
Research Lunch – Rhian Addison
Paul Mellon Centre
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‘Mannered beauty and theatric grace’: Guido Reni and the Royal Academy
3 May 2019
‘Mannered beauty and theatric grace’: Guido Reni and the Royal Academy
Research Lunch – Amy Parrish
Paul Mellon Centre
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The Hearth and the Inferno: LCC Fire Safety Displays at the Ideal Home Exhibition, 1958-63
17 May 2019
The Hearth and the Inferno: LCC Fire Safety Displays at the Ideal Home Exhibition, 1958-63
Research Lunch – Alistair Cartwright
Paul Mellon Centre
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Audio Arts Archive: From Inventory Space to Imagined Space
31 May 2019
Audio Arts Archive: From Inventory Space to Imagined Space
Research Lunch – Lucia Farinati
Paul Mellon Centre
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Between art and science: British and Chinese 'hybrid' botanic art in 18th century Canton
14 June 2019
Between art and science: British and Chinese 'hybrid' botanic art in 18th century Canton
Research Lunch – Josepha Richard
Paul Mellon Centre
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Brexit and the Occult: Gendered Ghosts of Empire
11 October 2019
Brexit and the Occult: Gendered Ghosts of Empire
Research Lunch – Dr Edwin Coomasaru
Paul Mellon Centre
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The Hayward Annual 1978: A Case Study in Combating Male 'Artocracy'
25 October 2019
The Hayward Annual 1978: A Case Study in Combating Male 'Artocracy'
Research Lunch – Jennifer Dudley
Paul Mellon Centre
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Merlyn Evans’ <i>Vertical Suite in Black</i> (1957) and the Trajectory of ‘Primitivism’ in British Art from Vorticism to the Independent Group
8 November 2019
Merlyn Evans’ Vertical Suite in Black (1957) and the Trajectory of ‘Primitivism’ in British Art from Vorticism to the Independent Group
Research Lunch – Michael Clegg
Paul Mellon Centre
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Narrating British Art: Robert de la Sizeranne’s Use of Insularity
22 November 2019
Narrating British Art: Robert de la Sizeranne’s Use of Insularity
Research Lunch – Julie Lageyre
Paul Mellon Centre
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'A Liberation of Spirit': Transatlantic Seascapes by Winifred Nicholson and John Marin
6 December 2019
'A Liberation of Spirit': Transatlantic Seascapes by Winifred Nicholson and John Marin
Research Lunch – Samantha Niederman
Paul Mellon Centre
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Performing Transnationalisms in the Works of Rasheed Araeen, Prafulla Mohanti and Sutapa Biswas
24 January 2020
Performing Transnationalisms in the Works of Rasheed Araeen, Prafulla Mohanti and Sutapa Biswas
Research Lunch – Eva Bentcheva
Paul Mellon Centre
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Bill Brandt & Henry Moore: Photography in Four Dimensions
31 January 2020
Bill Brandt & Henry Moore: Photography in Four Dimensions
Research Lunch – Martina Droth, Paul Messier
Paul Mellon Centre
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Surface, Depth and Form: John Ruskin’s ‘The Nature of Gothic’
7 February 2020
Surface, Depth and Form: John Ruskin’s ‘The Nature of Gothic’
Research Lunch – Thomas Hughes
Paul Mellon Centre
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Sculpting a Post-War Future: The Bombsite in Art School Education
21 February 2020
Sculpting a Post-War Future: The Bombsite in Art School Education
Research Lunch – Isabelle Mooney
Paul Mellon Centre
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Keith Arnatt’s Conceptualist Critique of Conceptual Art
6 March 2020
Keith Arnatt’s Conceptualist Critique of Conceptual Art
Research Lunch – Christian Berger
Paul Mellon Centre
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*Postponed* Accommodating the Picturesque: The Country Houses of James Wyatt, John Nash and Sir John Soane, 1793–1815
20 March 2020
*Postponed* Accommodating the Picturesque: The Country Houses of James Wyatt, John Nash and Sir John Soane, 1793–1815
Research Lunch – Rebecca Tropp
Paul Mellon Centre
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Uncertain Grounds and Absent Figures in Tina’s Keane’s <i>Faded Wallpaper</i> (1988)
29 May 2020
Uncertain Grounds and Absent Figures in Tina’s Keane’s Faded Wallpaper (1988)
Research Lunch – Evelyn Whorrall-Campbell
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*Postponed* The Waitresses in Scotland, 1978
26 June 2020
*Postponed* The Waitresses in Scotland, 1978
Research Lunch – Harry Weeks
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'Dying a Very British Death: Ecstatic Antibodies and the Possibilities of Censorship of Queer Art in Britain, c.1990'
17 July 2020
'Dying a Very British Death: Ecstatic Antibodies and the Possibilities of Censorship of Queer Art in Britain, c.1990'
Research Lunch – Theo Gordon