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Seeing in Colour: Cordier’s ‘Capresse des Colonies’ | The Droll Hackabout
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Visual Culture and Social History in the Long Eighteenth Century. Seeing in Colour: Cordier’s ‘Capresse des Colonies’. December 19, 2013. Middot; by Danielle Thom. Middot; in Uncategorized. Middot; Leave a comment. Stepping outside my academic comfort zone (prints, the 18th century, men in wigs), I’ve been mulling over the ethnographic busts by Charles Cordier which I saw in the Musée d’Orsay recently. In particular, Cordier’s. Bust in onyx and patinated bronze (1861). Photo Musée d’Orsay/RMN. Must negot...
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Tearing Up History | The Droll Hackabout
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Visual Culture and Social History in the Long Eighteenth Century. May 21, 2014. Middot; by Danielle Thom. Middot; in Uncategorized. Middot; Leave a comment. If you hadn’t already caught it on the BBC, do watch Dr Richard Clay’s marvellous. 8211; the story of art and iconoclasm in the French Revolution. (Richard was my MPhil supervisor, and I’m really chuffed that he’s getting this well-deserved recognition for his work). Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Address never made public).
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Whigs without wigs: constructing character in posthumous portraiture | The Droll Hackabout
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Visual Culture and Social History in the Long Eighteenth Century. Whigs without wigs: constructing character in posthumous portraiture. January 10, 2015. Middot; by Danielle Thom. Middot; in Uncategorized. Middot; Leave a comment. This paper was delivered at the British Society for Eighteenth Century Studies conference (Oxford, January 2015), with the title ‘Posthumous Portraiture: Nollekens, Gillray and the after-life of Sir George Savile’. Which was only known in better times’. The Fisher monument, ere...
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Visual Culture and Social History in the Long Eighteenth Century. Author Archives: Danielle Thom. May 27, 2015. Middot; by Danielle Thom. Middot; in Uncategorized. Middot; Leave a comment. Whigs without wigs: constructing character in posthumous portraiture. January 10, 2015. Middot; by Danielle Thom. Middot; in Uncategorized. Middot; Leave a comment. Seductive Sculptures and Priapic Prints. September 6, 2014. Middot; by Danielle Thom. Middot; in Uncategorized. Middot; Leave a comment. I recently publish...
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New Generation Thinkers | The Droll Hackabout
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Visual Culture and Social History in the Long Eighteenth Century. May 27, 2015. Middot; by Danielle Thom. Middot; in Uncategorized. Middot; Leave a comment. Finally, I have won something better than the Kylie Minogue EP awarded to the best dancer under 6 at my 1991 primary school disco. I’ve been picked *trumpet fanfare* as one of the BBC and AHRC’s “New Generation Thinkers” for 2015, alongside nine other academics. It happens to be the case that I’m the first and, to date, only NGT to be a non-uni...
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We The Humanities | The Droll Hackabout
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Visual Culture and Social History in the Long Eighteenth Century. February 25, 2014. Middot; by Danielle Thom. Middot; in Uncategorized. Middot; Leave a comment. Just a note to say, as of next week (3 March) I will be taking a ‘guest curator’ spot on the We The Humanities. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out. Notify me of new comments via email.
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Musing With Apollo: Update | The Droll Hackabout
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Visual Culture and Social History in the Long Eighteenth Century. Musing With Apollo: Update. May 12, 2014. Middot; by Danielle Thom. Middot; in Uncategorized. Middot; Leave a comment. I’m now contributing to Apollo regularly, mostly on museum issues and curatorial life (clue: this involves tea and dusty things). You can find my various wordsplurges here. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). Academic Men E...
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Review: ‘Georgians Revealed’ and ‘The Cheapside Hoard’ | The Droll Hackabout
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Visual Culture and Social History in the Long Eighteenth Century. Review: ‘Georgians Revealed’ and ‘The Cheapside Hoard’. December 23, 2013. Middot; by Danielle Thom. Middot; in Uncategorized. Middot; Leave a comment. One of the perks of working for a major national museum is the reciprocal agreement in place with other institutions to allow staff free or discounted entry to exhibitions. Notwithstanding the rain and gales last Saturday, I waded to. The Cheapside Hoard: London’s Lost Jewels. At the Museum...
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Visual Culture and Social History in the Long Eighteenth Century. October 6, 2013. Middot; by Danielle Thom. Middot; in Uncategorized. Middot; Leave a comment. First of all, apologies, for the long hiatus between posts. I offer up teaching preparation and job applications as my excuse for not writing much else. I’m absolutely thrilled, however, that my job search has come to an end for the time being, as I have been offered a place on the V&A’s Curator Development […]. July 30, 2013. June 10, 2013. Middo...
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Seductive Sculptures and Priapic Prints | The Droll Hackabout
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Visual Culture and Social History in the Long Eighteenth Century. Seductive Sculptures and Priapic Prints. September 6, 2014. Middot; by Danielle Thom. Middot; in Uncategorized. Middot; Leave a comment. I recently published a short piece on the sculptural nude in 18th century satirical prints, for the Royal College of Art’s splendid. Blog – and you can read it here. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public).