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Multi-Sensorial Materials: Egyptomania and the Decorative Impulse

Multi-Sensorial Materials: Egyptomania and the Decorative Impulse

BY LEA C. STEPHENSON

Across the late-19th-CENTURY Anglophone world, artists and collectors fabricated Orientalist fantasies of Egypt as part of a phenomenon that became known as Egyptomania. This sensation included an embodied and material engagement with the modern North African Middle East and the ancient Islamic empire.

Summer Reading Recommendation: Ceramic Art

Summer Reading Recommendation: Ceramic Art

BY JESSIE DEAN

‘Ceramic Art’ is the first volume in Princeton University Press’s ART/WORK series, which invites readers to reconsider a section of art history through the lens of materials and conservation. The eight essays in this anthology, edited by Caroline Fowler and Ittai Weinryb, demonstrate the enchanting and elusive nature of ceramics across time and cultures.

The Finest Regency Porcelain Painter: Thomas Baxter in Worcester

The Finest Regency Porcelain Painter: Thomas Baxter in Worcester

BY CHARLES DAWSON

There is no greater name in the history of English Regency porcelain painters than that of Thomas Baxter. His whole life was given to the art of porcelain painting, and his work at the Worcester Flight & Barr factory, the subject of a new book, is among the choicest of the era.

Historic Odessa Collections Published

Historic Odessa Collections Published

BY PHILIP D. ZIMMERMAN

One hundred of the objects in the Delaware’s Historic Odessa Foundation’s Wilson-Warner House and the Corbit-Sharp House are addressed in detail in the new book 𝘈 𝘚𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘥 𝘗𝘢𝘴𝘵: 𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘏𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘤 𝘖𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘢, with four chapters exploring the town’s early settlement, families, craftsmen, and preservation.

Interwoven: Women’s Lives Written in Thread

Interwoven: Women’s Lives Written in Thread

BY REED GOCHBERG

The Concord Museum’s special exhibition 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘸𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘯: 𝘞𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘯’𝘴 𝘓𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘞𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘛𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥 features samplers made by young women during the 18th and 19th centuries in Middlesex County, MA.

French Interiors for an American Gilded Age

French Interiors for an American Gilded Age

BY LAURA C. JENKINS

From the early 1880s onward, the movement of French 18th-century decorative arts from Europe to New York coincided with a growing fashion among the wealthy of that city for rooms in French historical styles.

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