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DESCRIPTION:Alexandra\nPalmer will present at the Modern Design History\nSe
 minar on Wednesday\, October 24\, at 6 pm. Her talk is entitled “‘A\nCompl
 ete Technique of Living’: Raymond Duncan (1874–1966).”\n\n American\nRaymo
 nd Duncan was a fixture on the Paris art scene from 1900 until he died at
 \nage 92. He was a larger than life figure\, a\nproponent of Hellenism dra
 ped in home-spun and hand-woven tunic\nand chlamys\, with barefeet and hom
 e-made sandals\, a weaver\, artist\,\ngraphic designer\, architect\, poet\
 , playwright\, printer\, publisher\, dancer\,\nphilosopher\, activist\, pa
 cifist\, and vegetarian. Duncan developed an\noriginal\, hybrid Greek-insp
 ired lifestyle he called Actionalism\, which\nvalued self-sufficiency and 
 the laborer and labor of making products over\nproduction. A central tenan
 t was a healthy body that countered the mechanical\nideas of scientific ma
 nagement proposed by fellow Americans\, Frederick Winslow Taylor\nand Henr
 y Ford. This talk will introduce and contextualize a range of Duncan’s\nwo
 rk and life.\n\nDr.\nAlexandra Palmer is the Nora E. Vaughan Senior Curato
 r\, Textiles & Costume\nat the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM). She received he
 r BA in Art History from the\nUniversity of Toronto (1979)\; her MA in Cos
 tume and Textiles from New York\nUniversity\, in conjunction with the Metr
 opolitan Museum of Art (1981)\; and her\nPhD in Design History from the Un
 iversity of Brighton (1994). She joined the\nROM in 1996 and is responsibl
 e for over 44\,000 artifacts in the collection of\nwestern fashionable dre
 ss and textiles. She has curated several exhibitions\nincluding Christian 
 Dior (2017)\, Fashion Follows Form: Design for Sitting\n(2014)\, winner of
  the 2014 Richard Martin Exhibition Award\, and Elite Elegance: Couture Fa
 shion in the 1950s\n(2003). She is also Associate Professor at the Univers
 ity of Toronto\,\nDepartment of Art. Dr. Palmer has authored two award-win
 ning books\, Dior: A New Look\, A New Enterprise 1947–57 (V&A Publications
 \, 2009)\, honored with\nthe 2010 Millia Davenport Publication Award\, and
  Couture & Commerce: The Transatlantic Fashion Trade in the 1950s\n(UBC Pr
 ess\, 2001)\, winner of the Clio\nAward for Ontario history. Her forthcomi
 ng volume\, Christian Dior: History & Modernity\, 1947–1957 (ROM Press\,\n
 2018)\, focuses on the ROM’s haute couture collection to explain the succe
 ss of\nthe New Look in the first decade of the house of Dior. She has edit
 ed several\nbooks and has also contributed to numerous international museu
 m catalogues and\nscholarly journals. Dr. Palmer is also working on two ot
 her books: Canadian Fashion Icons\, focusing on the\nROM’s collection\, an
 d another\, which explored the life and work of Raymond\nDuncan. Her curre
 nt research\, Recuperating\nFashion 1700–2000\, is funded by the Social Sc
 ience Humanities Research\nCouncil of Canada and explores the extended wea
 r of fashions.
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: “A Complete Technique of Living'
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