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An Analysis of the Art Craft Debate with Reference to the Work of Chatwin: Martin
Lees-Maffei, Grace (University of Hertfordshire, 1998)Exhibition catalogue essay on Chatwin: Martin, including reflection on relationships between art and craft -
Arty-facts : The role of performance in the "conventional" PhD
Christianson, B.; Adams, Steven (UK Council for Graduate Education, 2011)Much has been written about various changes made to doctoral regulations in order to accommodate professional and practice-based doctoral research programmes. These changes are sometimes disparaged by those in more established ... -
‘The fault of being purely French’ : the practice and theory of landscape painting in post-revolutionary France
Adams, Steven (2013-09)For much of the nineteenth century, landscape painting was seen as the vehicle for an avant-garde keen to assert art’s freedom. The Académie des beaux-arts was seen, in turn, as a harbinger of tradition, bent on the ... -
First as Farce, then as Tragedy: art, vaudeville and modern painting after the French Revolution
Adams, Steven (Bloomsbury Academic, 2021-07-29)What might art history look like if it was reconstructed using only primary sources? What structures, practices and discursive conventions might crop up, how would we reconcile them with existing art historical narratives ... -
'Noising things abroad' - art, commodity and commerce in post-revolutionary Paris
Adams, Steven (2013-10)This article examines some of the changes that took place in the Parisian art market in the wake of the French Revolution. The period witnessed a systemic shift in the ways in which the arts were made, written about, ... -
Quatremere de Quincy and the instrumentality of the museum
Adams, Steven (2004)In this paper I want to explore some of the ways in which art lost the capacity to embody knowledge in late eighteenth century France with particular reference to the writings of the art critic, archaeologist and academician, ... -
Renoir, la tradizione e l'altra faccia dell'impressionismo
Adams, Steven (Skira, 2008-03-08)Like many of his Impressionist peers, Renoir's work and career were subject to careful manipulation. When at the end of the nineteenth century, the French government sought to construct a narrative around the nation's ... -
Sèvres Porcelain and the Articulation of Imperial Identity in Napoleonic France
Adams, Steven (2007)From its inception in 1756, the Sèvres porcelain manufactory made elaborate, highly decorated dinner services for the exclusive use of the royal court. The objects used by the king were seen as extensions of his body and ... -
Soviet Superwoman in the Land of Liberty
Simpson, Patricia (Manchester University Press, 2000) -
Soviet Superwoman in the Landscape of Liberty : Aleksandr Deineka's Razdol'e, 1944
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Space, politics and desire : configuring the landscape in post-Revolutionary France
Adams, Steven (2010-09)The French Revolution radically reconfigured citizens' views of both real and imagined space. This article sets out to explore this process of reconfiguration and the relationship between politics and space from the period ... -
‘Un depot précieux’: matter, agency and politics, and the siege of the Bastille
Adams, Steven (2018-04-06)This article examines how in the weeks after the siege of the Bastille in the summer of 1789 the material remains of the fortress were used as political tokens of the nation’s newfound freedom. These tokens comprised ...