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DESCRIPTION:Sarah R. Cohen will deliver a Françoise and Georges Selz Lectur
 e on\nEighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century French Decorative Arts and Cultur
 e on\nTuesday\, March 17\, at 6 pm. Her talk is entitled “Fashioning Race 
 Through\nMetalwork in French Sugar Casters.'\n\nThree extant pairs of Fren
 ch sugar casters\, all fashioned through various forms\nof luxury metalwor
 k\, present numerous problems of interpretation regarding\nquestions of el
 ite dining fashions\, artisanal practices\, and constructions of\nracial i
 dentity. All of the sets of casters feature figures bearing large\nbunches
  of sugar cane cast in silver\; each bundle is fashioned so that highly\nr
 efined\, white powdered sugar can be sprinkled from holes punched through 
 the\ntops of the individual stalks of cane. The figures themselves differ 
 markedly\nin physiognomy\, dress\, and attitude: the earliest pair\, fashi
 oned in silver for\nLouis-Henri\, duc de Bourbon\, in the 1730s\, feature 
 an “African” man and woman\ndressed in “American” costumes inspired by tra
 vel literature. The two later\nsets\, by contrast\, feature “Chinese” boys
  cast in either bronze or silver and\ncompletely painted to create dark-sk
 inned laborers in lavish Chinoiserie\ngarments.  How can we account for th
 ese eclectic and variable table\nornaments? In this talk Cohen will examin
 e their implications in light of\nchanging conceptions of race in eighteen
 th-century France\, in the context of\nglobal commerce\, sugar production\
 , and slavery. \n\nSarah R. Cohen is Professor of Art History and Chair of
  the\nDepartment of Art and Art History at the University at Albany\, Stat
 e University\nof New York. She is also a joint Professor in the Department
  of Women’s\,\nGender\, and Sexuality Studies. Her research focuses on the
  body and sensory\nexperience in art and culture from the sixteenth throug
 h eighteenth centuries\,\nwith a special emphasis on early modern France. 
 Her book Art\, Dance\,\nand the Body in French Culture of the Ancien Régim
 e was published in\n2000 by Cambridge University Press\, and she has two a
 dditional books\nforthcoming in 2020–2021: Picturing Animals in Early Mode
 rn Europe: Art\nand Soul and Enlightened Animals in Eighteenth-Century Art
 :\nMatter\, Sensation\, Knowledge. Professor Cohen’s future research will 
 return\nto questions of human performance and its intersection with materi
 al\nconstructions of the body in art.
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: CANCELED—Fashioning Race Through Metalwork in
  French Sugar Casters
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