U of Buckingham | MA in French and British Decorative Arts
From the University of Buckingham:
MA in French and British Decorative Arts and Historic Interiors
University of Buckingham (study based in London), starting September 2023
Bursary applications due by 10 July 2023
Vase ‘sirènes’, Manufacture de Sèvres, probably Josse-François-Joseph Le Riche, designer; Etienne-Henry Le Guay, the Elder, gilder, ca. 1776, soft-paste porcelain, gilded, 49 cm high (London: The Wallace Collection, C333).
Applications are invited for a bursary on the University of Buckingham’s MA in Decorative Arts and Historic Interiors starting September 2023. Generously funded by The Leche Trust, the award is worth £7,500 and will contribute towards course fees. The deadline for bursary applications is Monday, 10 July, 4pm UK time.
This unique MA in French and British Decorative Arts and Interiors, taught in collaboration with the curatorial and conservation teams at the Wallace Collection, focuses on the development of interiors and decorative arts in England and France in the ‘long’ eighteenth century (c.1660–c.1830) and their subsequent rediscovery and reinterpretation in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. A key element of the course is the emphasis on the first-hand study of furniture, silver, and ceramics, where possible in the context of historic interiors. Based in central London, it draws upon the outstanding collections of the nearby Wallace Collection and the Victoria and Albert Museum as well as the expertise of leading specialists who participate in the teaching.
Bursary priority will be given to applicants:
• with excellent academic qualifications, seeking, or currently pursuing careers in museums, the built heritage or conservation,
• in need of financial assistance,
• have a strong interest in the decorative arts and historic buildings,
• or, for those wishing to go on to pursue academic research in the decorative arts and historic interiors.
The bursary is also open to part-time students commencing their studies in 2023 for whom the funding would be spread over two years. To be eligible for the bursary, students will need to have applied for and been offered a place on the course.
Call for Articles | Queerness in 18th- and 19th-C. European Art
From Arts:
Queerness in 18th- and 19th-Century European Art
Special Issue of Arts, edited by Andrew Shelton
Proposals due by 15 August 2023; final manuscripts due by 30 November 2023
A special issue of the international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal Arts dedicated to Queerness in 18th- and 19th-Century European Art and edited by Andrew Carrington Shelton (Department of History of Art, The Ohio State University) seeks essays on a wide variety of topics that subvert or disrupt heteronormative interpretations of the art and visual culture of this period. Topics to be addressed include, but are not limited to:
• Works of art produced by or under the auspices of personages who can plausibly be identified as attracted to members of the same sex
• Works or creative situations that can be construed as expressing or eliciting same-sex sexual desire or attraction
• Works or creative situations in which the heteronormative polarity of the processes of identification and desire can be perceived as having been collapsed or scrambled
• Works or creative situations that involve gender-bending or gender fluidity
• Works or creative situations that either deepen or complicate our understanding of sexuality and/or sexual identity
• Works that eroticize individuals or situations that are normally regarded as lying outside the realm of the erotic
Interested scholars should send an abstract (maximum 250 words) and CV to shelton.85@osu.edu, copying sylvia.hao@mdpi.com, by 15 August 2023. Final manuscripts must be submitted for blind peer-review no later than 30 November 2023. Due to journal restrictions, all articles must be submitted in English. Questions or concerns can be addressed to shelton.85@osu.edu or sylvia.hao@mdpi.com. More information is available here.
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