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DESCRIPTION:Matthew M. Reeve\nwill deliver the inaugural Lee B. Anderson Me
 morial Lecture on the Gothic on Wednesday\,\nOctober 16\, at 6 pm. His tal
 k is entitled ''Children of Strawberry’: Replication\nand Referentiality i
 n the English Gothic Revival.”\n\nHorace Walpole's Strawberry Hill\n(begun
  1747) established a significant template for subsequent Gothic\nbuildings
 . Eliding the persona of a famous author\, antiquary\, and connoisseur wit
 h\nan extraordinary Gothic villa\, it would be emulated in a long list of
 \ncommissions from c. 1750 into the twentieth century. In Reeve’s recent w
 ork he\nhas explored the place of homoerotic coteries in the formation of 
 the Gothic\nidiom—and more broadly of medievalism—within Walpole's milieu.
  Walpole's queer\ncoterie would disseminate the Gothic style in Georgian L
 ondon from c. 1750–1790\nin a handful of buildings that followed in Strawb
 erry Hill's wake. For\nWalpole\, these buildings were 'Children of Strawbe
 rry\,' the offspring\nof his famous home. This was grounded in the constru
 ction of Walpole's\ncoterie as a 'queer family\,' a sexual rather\nthan bi
 ological construction of kinship. Sexuality was\, however\, only one\nposs
 ible signification of Strawberry Hill and Strawberry Hill Gothic\, and the
 \nhouse's reception history indicates that the meanings of the house morph
 ed\nto adapt to different needs of patrons. The apparent 'queerness'\nof t
 hese buildings and of the Gothic generally\, would change significantly\na
 round 1800 and be reframed in the light of the religious and social reform
 s\nthat shaped the Victorian Gothic Revival. Taking the 'long view'\nof Wa
 lpole's famous home\, this lecture considers the changing meanings of the 
 Gothic\non either side of c. 1800 and in so doing offers a new perspective
  on the\nshaping of 'the Gothic Revival.'\n\nMatthew M. Reeve\nis Associat
 e Professor and Queen's National Scholar of Art History at\nQueen's Univer
 sity and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London.\nBeginning at t
 he University of Toronto\, he moved to Cambridge for his graduate\nwork un
 der Paul Binski and taught at the University of Toronto and the\nUniversit
 y of London. His research has long been divided between medieval art\n(pro
 per) and episodes of medievalism in Western art. His first books were on\n
 Gothic architecture and wall painting and he has recently completed Gothic
 \nArchitecture and Sexuality in the Circle of Horace Walpole 1717–97 which
 \nis soon to appear from Penn State. Arguing that the revival of Gothic ar
 t\nand architecture was the product of a queer coterie surrounding Horace 
 Walpole\,\nthis study interrogates the sexual and aesthetic origins of med
 ievalism itself.\nThis project has been supported by fellowships from the 
 Paul Mellon Centre and\nthe Social Sciences and Humanities Research Counci
 l of Canada\, and earlier\npapers from it were published in The Art\nBulle
 tin\, Architectural History\,\nthe Burlington Magazine\, and\nelsewhere. H
 e is currently working on books on the Gothic\nsculpture of Wells Cathedra
 l\, Welsh Gothic architecture\, and a collaborative\nstudy of Medievalism 
 during Toronto's Gilded Age.
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: 'Children of Strawberry': Replication and Ref
 erentiality in the English Gothic Revival
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