Desiring Silver: Saving Souls, Travelling Light, and the Other Side of the Coin Professor Helen Hills Presented by the Centre for Early Modern Studies, Australian National University Online Seminar. Free to attend. All Welcome, please […]
Almost every human culture has created furniture or established seating arrangements that reflect hierarchical distinctions within their society. Wolf Burchard revisits the history of the throne chair from antiquity to the present day, and explores […]
Conveners: Charles Zika and Angela Hesson ‘Art’ wrote Susanne Langer ‘is the objectification of feeling.’ A century earlier, Paul Cezanne had made the more extravagant claim ‘A work of art which did not begin in […]
Concealments: Textile Conservation as Material Culture | Dr Dinah Eastop, Textile Conservator Conservation responds to environmental, material and social change, including the emotive responses of people. Dr. Eastop’s paper looks at the response to garments […]
