Michelle Foa to lecture at Cleveland Museum of Art

LECTURE ANNOUNCEMENT
 
“Destined to be born and perish with equal quickness”: The Making and Unmaking of 19th-Century Paper”

Michelle Foa, Associate Professor of Art History in the Newcomb Art Department of Tulane University
 
Friday, January 20, 2023, 5:30 p.m.
Cleveland Museum of Art, Morley Family Lecture Hall
 
The nineteenth century witnessed a revolution in the manufacture and use of paper that had far-reaching effects on the arts. This lecture, organized to complement the exhibition Nineteenth-Century French Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art, situates the changes that paper underwent in the context of key developments in trade, cotton cultivation, and textile production and consumption around the world. It also highlights artists’ and writers’ reactions to these shifts, revealing their profound concern about the longevity of the paper supports of their pictures and publications.
 
Michelle Foa is associate professor of art history in the Newcomb Art Department of Tulane University. Her research focuses on 19th-century French art and visual and material culture.  
 
This event is supported by the Getty Foundation as part of The Paper Project initiative and by the Wolfgang Ratjen Foundation, Liechtenstein.

{image: Études de chiffonniers (detail), 1849. Gustave Doré (French, 1832–1883). Lithograph; 33.8 x 25.7 cm. Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Photo: BnF}