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Art Appreciation 2022

Pomp and ceremony: the celebratory role of art

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  • Impossible bouquets and diplomatic mangos: the art of political giving – Mikala Tai

  • Charles Conder and the Maison de l’art nouveau (1895) - Angus Trumble

  • Celebrating victory in Buddhist Bhutan: art, dance and modernity – Dr Alex McKay

  • Happy anniversaries: Australian artists and settlement commemoration, 1938 – Dr David Hansen

  • Design of the grand hotel: from le goût Ritz to barefoot luxury – Distinguished Professor Peter McNeil

  • Plaster and pageantry – Lorraine Kypiotis

  • An illustrated history: colonial parties and the popular press – Richard Neville

  • Transforming cities: the Paris Opera and the Sydney Opera House – Dr Peter Kohane

  • Well done, sir: the celebratory and commemorative function of cartoons in the Victorian age – Associate Professor Richard Sculley

  • Attention to detail: the art of Michael Zavros – Susi Muddiman OAM

  • All tomorrow’s parties: Andy Warhol’s social worlds – Nicholas Chambers 

  • Celebrating Bonaparte: Jacques-Louis David’s The Coronation of Napoleon – Professor Mark Ledbury

  • The Ditchley portrait of Queen Elizabeth I and the revels arranged by Henry Lee – Dr Lisa Beaven

  • All the world’s a fair: celebrating Australian art at international exhibitions from 1851 to 1967 – Natalie Wilson

  • Ceremony and country in Papunya Tula painting, 1971-79 – John Kean

  • Inigo Jones and the theatre of the Stuart court – Steven Miller

  • Post-pomp: the rise of private life in 18th century European painting – Dr Georgina Cole

  • Alternative histories: artists and historical re-enactments – Dr Andrew Frost