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UPCOMING exhibition, lecture & workshops
various dates & locations
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Coming soon! Bawdy Bodies: Satires of Unruly Women
EXHIBITION
24 September 2015 through 26 February 2016
Characterized by comically grotesque figures performing lewd and vulgar actions, bawdy humor provided a poignant vehicle to target a variety of
political and social issues in eighteenth-century Britain. [log in to unmask]">Bawdy Bodies: Satires of Unruly Women
explores the deployment of this humorous but
derisive strategy toward the regulation of female behavior. The exhibition will present satirical images of women from a range of subject categories
including the royal family, aging members of fashionable society, disparaged mothers, political activists, gamblers, medical wonders, artists,
performers, and intellectuals. It will be on view at the Lewis Walpole Library, 154 Main Street, Farmington, Connecticut, on Wednesdays from 2–4:30 pm and by appointment.
PUBLIC LECTURE
28 October 2015, 5:30 pm, Sterling Memorial Library Lecture Hall
[log in to unmask]">Rock, Paper, Scissors: Dimensionality and Neoclassical
Aesthetics in the Art and Fashion of the 1790s, by Amelia Rauser (Franklin & Marshall College)
WORKSHOPS FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS
Limited enrollment by
application
2 October 2015, Lewis Walpole Library "We are an injured body": Collectivity and the Female Body, by Jill Campbell, Yale
University.
30 October 2015, Lewis Walpole Library
Expressive Bodies in Eighteenth-Century Satirical Prints, by Amelia Rauser, Franklin & Marshall College.
Details for all of these events can be found
here.
Image: Thomas Rowlandson (1756–1827). The Poll, ca. 1784
The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University, 784.04.27.01.2 Impression 1
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