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DESCRIPTION:Mimi Hellman will be coming to speak at the Françoise and\nGeor
 ges Selz Lecture on 18th- and 19th-Century French Decorative Arts and\nCul
 ture Wednesday\, March 30\, 2011\, on “Forms of Distraction: Towards a\nDe
 corative Imagination in Eighteenth-Century France.”\n\nMimi Hellman is Ass
 ociate Professor in the Department of Art\nHistory at Skidmore College\, S
 aratoga Springs\, New York\, where she has taught\nsince 2004. She has als
 o taught at Smith College in Northampton\, Massachusetts\,\nand Mount Holy
 oke College in South Hadley\, Massachusetts. Dr. Hellman received\nher B.A
 . and M.A. from Smith College\, and the Ph.D. from Princeton University.\n
 She has been the recipient of prestigious fellowships including a David E.
 \nFinley Fellowship from the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts 
 at the\nNational Gallery of Art in Washington\, D.C. (1997-2000)\, and a r
 esearch\nfellowship at the American University in Paris from the Samuel H.
  Kress\nFoundation (1995-7).\n\n Dr. Hellman is preparing a book entitled 
 The\nHôtel de Soubise: Art and Ambition in Eighteenth-Century France. She 
 has\npublished numerous essays\, including “Enchanted Night: Decoration\, 
 Sociability\,\nand Visuality after Dark\,” in Paris: Life and Luxury (fort
 hcoming in\n2011)\; “The Nature of Artifice: French Porcelain Flowers and 
 the Rhetoric of\nthe Garnish\,” in The Cultural Aesthetics of Porcelain in
  the Eighteenth\nCentury (2010)\; “Up the River: Touring Sing Sing\,” in L
 ives of the\nHudson (2010)\; “The Decorated Flame: Firedogs and the Tensio
 ns of the\nHearth\,” in Taking Shape: Finding Sculpture in the Decorative 
 Arts\, winner\nof Historians of British Art book prize (2010)\; “The Joy o
 f Sets: The Uses of\nSeriality in the French Interior\,” in Furnishing the
  Eighteenth Century:\nWhat Furniture Can Tell Us About the European and Am
 erican Past (2006)\;\n“Interior Motives: Seduction by Decoration in Eighte
 enth-Century France\,” the\nintroduction to the Metropolitan Museum of Art
  exhibition catalogue\, Dangerous\nLiaisons: Fashion and Furniture in the 
 Eighteenth Century (2006)\; and\n“Domesticity Undone: Three Historical Spa
 ces\,” in Undomesticated Interiors (2003).\n\nProfessor Hellman’s talk is 
 entitled “Forms of Distraction:\nTowards a Decorative Imagination in Eight
 eenth-Century France.” The\neighteenth-century French interior was filled 
 with a multitude of artfully\ndesigned objects\, from lustrous porcelain v
 ases to intricately veneered\nfurniture to paintings representing the trys
 ts of mythological lovers. Yet\nsustained appreciation of these works was 
 often difficult due to factors such\nas location\, lighting\, and codes of
  conduct. By exploring the tensions between\nvisual abundance and compromi
 sed visibility\, this lecture suggests that both\ndesigners and consumers 
 imagined the interior as a space where distraction\, not\nattention\, shap
 ed the aesthetic and social value of decorative art.\n\nPlease RSVP and jo
 in us in the Lecture Hall at 38 West 86th\nStreet\, between Columbus Ave a
 nd Central Park West\, at 5:45pm for a reception\nbefore the talk.
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