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DESCRIPTION:Laura Auricchio will be coming to speak at the Françoise and\nG
 eorges Selz Lectures on 18th- and 19-Century French Decorative Arts and\nC
 ulture on Tuesday\, November 27\, 2012. Her talk is entitled “Hero and Vil
 lain:\nLafayette’s Legacies.”Laura Auricchio is Associate Professor of Art
  History and Chair of the Department of Humanities at The New School. She 
 completed her B.A. at Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges and her M.A. and Ph.D
  in Art History at Columbia University. Auricchio’s primary area of resear
 ch is eighteenth-century French and American visual culture\, with a speci
 alty in the politics of women artists during the revolutions. Her current 
 project is a book-length study of the Marquis de Lafayette. Recent publica
 tions include Adélaïde Labille-Guiard: Artist in the Age of Revolution (Lo
 s Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum\, 2009) and The Marquis (New York: Alfred 
 A. Knopf\, forthcoming). Additionally\, Auricchio has co-edited Invaluable
  Trees: Cultures of Nature 1660-1830 (SVEC 2012:8) with Elizabeth Heckendo
 rn Cook and Giulia Pacini (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation\, 2012) and contrib
 uted to the catalogue and exhibition\, Royalists to Romantics: Women Artis
 ts from the Louvre\, Versailles\, and Other French National Collections\, 
 1750-1850 (New York: Scala\, 2012)\, at the National Museum for Women in t
 he Arts in Washington\, DC\, in 2012.Americans have long hailed the Marqui
 s de Lafayette\n(1757-1834) as an extraordinarily admirable figure—a wealt
 hy French nobleman\nwho\, at the age of 19\, volunteered to fight in the W
 ar of Independence and\nprodded his king to support the rebel cause. But i
 n France\, Lafayette is seen\nby partisans on both the left and the right 
 as an opportunist\, a misguided\ndreamer\, even a traitor. In her talk\, A
 uricchio will consider how Lafayette\, a\nman who lived by a principle tha
 t he called “moderation\,” could have garnered\nsuch disparate reputations
 . While part of the answer lies in the very different\nroles that he playe
 d and decisions that he made in the French and American\nrevolutions\, thi
 s talk focuses on the importance of visual\, material\, and print\nculture
 s in shaping and sustaining Lafayette's divided legacies.Light refreshment
 s will be served at 5:45 pm. The\npresentation will begin at 6:00 pm.RSVP 
 is required. PLEASE NOTE that our Lecture Hall can only accommodate\na lim
 ited number of people\, so please come early if you would like to have a\n
 seat in the main room. We also have overflow seating available\; all regis
 trants\nwho arrive late will be seated in the overflow area.
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: Hero and Villain: Lafayette’s Legacies
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