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DESCRIPTION:Flights of Fancy: The Birds of Louis-Denis Armand (1723–1796)A 
 Françoise and George Selz Lecture on Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Fr
 ench Decorative Arts and Culture by Mia Jackson (Waddesdon Manor)In this l
 ecture\, Mia Jackson (curator of decorative arts at Waddesdon Manor) will 
 talk about her recent exhibition\, Flights of Fancy\, the first ever surve
 y of the life and work of the recently rediscovered Sèvres painter Louis-D
 enis Armand (1723–1796)\, now celebrated as one of the foremost painters o
 f birds. Very few artisans from the eighteenth century have left us such a
  detailed biography\; over thirty drawings by Armand survive\, and researc
 h into the drawings and their inscriptions (by Jackson and collaborator Be
 rnard Dragesco) has revealed a wealth of detail about the artist\, his lif
 e\, his work\, and even his political opinions.Mia Jackson has been curato
 r of decorative arts at Waddesdon Manor since 2017. She studied French and
  Philosophy at the University of Oxford then completed an MA in eighteenth
 -century French decorative arts at the Courtauld Institute of Art. Her doc
 toral thesis entitled “André-Charles Boulle (1642–1732) and Paper: Prints 
 and Drawings in the Workshop of an Ébéniste du Roi” was completed at Queen
  Mary\, University of London in 2016. She previously worked in the Prints 
 and Drawings Department at the British Museum\, the Wallace Collection\, a
 nd English Heritage. Eighteenth-century France is her area of expertise\, 
 in particular the links between works on paper and the decorative arts.
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: Flights of Fancy
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