Flaunting Red and Blue: Reframing the Nouvelles Indes Tapestries through Gobelins Dyestuffs
by Carole Nataf The first chapter of my dissertation examines a royal Gobelins tapestry set known as the Nouvelles Indes (1737–41), designed by François Desportes and representing one of the most spectacular depictions of colonialism in eighteenth-century France....
Royal and Aristocratic Ephemera of the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries
by Ashley Vernon With the support of a Decorative Arts Trust Research Grant, I was able to take my studies transatlantic. In London, I was fortunate to visit the collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum’s new East Storehouse, the Museum of the Home1, and the...
Ivory as an Amphibious Material
by John White In German, the word for “ivory” (Elfenbein) contains a direct reference to elephants. However, ivory is also sourced from other animals. Walruses, narwhals, and other animals have tusks, which artists around the globe have carved and worked for...
Examining 16th-Century Altar Tapestries
by Julia LaPlaca With the support of a Decorative Arts Trust Research Grant, I spent a week in New York City conducting research for my dissertation titled Woven Flesh, Woven Stone: The Affordances of Tapestries in Altar Environments, 1350–1580. During this...
Frank Lloyd Wright in Japan: Decorations and Implications
by Andrea Jung-An Liu The focus of my dissertation research in the Department of the History of Art at the University of California, Berkeley, began one summer in Yokohama, when I walked past a building with ornamentation that was unmistakably influenced by Frank...
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Formerly known as the "blog,” the Bulletin features new research and scholarship, travelogues, book reviews, and museum and gallery exhibitions. The Bulletin complements The Magazine of the Decorative Arts Trust, our biannual members publication.