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DESCRIPTION:Jean-François Bédard will deliver a Françoise and Georges Selz 
 Lecture on Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century French Decorative Arts and C
 ulture on Tuesday\, November 15\, at 6 pm. His talk is entitled “Between C
 onstruction and Invention: Theories of Ornament in Eighteenth-Century Arch
 itecture.” In this talk\, Bédard will explore theories of ornament in eigh
 teenth-century architecture. Far from a peripheral concern for eighteenth-
 century architects\, ornament was at the center of the debates regarding t
 he meaning of architectural form. In his Parere su l’architettura—a 1765 t
 ext championing the cause of Roman Imperial architecture over that of Peri
 clean Athens—Giambattista Piranesi delineated the dispute. According to Pi
 ranesi\, rationalists and traditionalists\, on the one hand\, advocated fo
 r strict guidelines in the ornamentation of buildings. These they grounded
  in the imitation of beautiful nature which\, according to them\, produced
  decorum (appropriateness)\, a paramount concern for architects. Proponent
 s of invention\, on the other hand\, challenged decorum’s regulations. The
 y supported instead unbridled ornamental invention that questioned the ver
 y boundaries of architecture as a discipline. From Claude Perrault to Pira
 nesi\, Jacques-François Blondel to Kant\, Enlightenment thinking about orn
 ament thus oscillated between reason and pleasure\, and ultimately between
  mind and body. By the end of the century\, it grounded the nascent discip
 line of aesthetics that ushered the modern regime of artistic value.Jean-F
 rançois Bédard is Associate Professor at Syracuse University’s School of A
 rchitecture. He received his doctoral degree in the Department of Art Hist
 ory and Archeology at Columbia University. His research focuses on the arc
 hitecture and the visual culture of court society in early modern France. 
 His publications include Decorative Games: Ornament\, Rhetoric\, and Noble
  Culture in the Work of Gilles-Marie Oppenord (University of Delaware Pres
 s\, 2011)\; “Political Renewal and Architectural Revival during the French
  Regency: Oppenord’s Palais-Royal\,” in the Journal of the Society of Arch
 itectural Historians\; “Huquier’s Prints after Oppenord’s Ripa\,” in Print
  Quarterly\; and “Beds and Thrones: Reforming Aulic Space in Late Eighteen
 th-Century France\,” in the Journal of Art Historiography. Forthcoming ess
 ays will be included in the new edition of Sir Banister Fletcher’s History
  of Architecture (Batsford)\, in The Companion to Eighteenth-Century Archi
 tecture (Wiley-Blackwell)\, and in Journal 18. Fellowships and visiting sc
 holarships from the Metropolitan Museum of Art\, the J. Paul Getty Foundat
 ion\, the Kress Foundation\, the Graham Foundation for the Visual Arts\, t
 he Canadian Centre for Architecture\, and the Institut National d’Histoire
  de l’Art in Paris have supported his work.
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: Between Construction and Invention: Theories 
 of Ornament in Eighteenth-Century Architecture
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