As Professor Anne Higonnet has told me a couple of times this semester, “the stars seem to be aligned for this project” and she certainly was right today. This morning she and I had the pleasure of visiting a private collector of Sèvres 18th C porcelain at her home in […]
Over the last week (plus) I have continued to chip away at my pile of reading, collect notes, and I formulated my preliminary proposal which was turned in on Tuesday October 6. In terms of where I am in my research, I would say I still have a ways to […]
I, like my peer Megan Baker, have decided to further the work I began in Professor Anne Higonnet’s Spring 2015 course A Virtual Enlightenment and turn it into my senior thesis at Barnard College. My work for Professor Higonnet’s seminar dealt with French eighteenth-century materials and their makers whereby my individual […]
As a class, I feel strongly that we learned, we created, and we conquered. I grew exponentially as a student and a young art historian, as well as nurtured a passion for the digital humanities. As my final blog post for A Virtual Enlightenment I would like to re-cap my experience […]
This past week we have worked on designing and integrating our home page of our website. This included drawing an image of the Tésse Room floor plan and editing it in Illustrator, coding the color bar using Digital Color Meter and PhotoShop, brainstorming on our logo for our website, setting […]
Materials & Makers, as a group, has a collaborative Prezi where we have and will continue to edit(ed) a skeleton for our project goals, individual roles, and tasks we will take on. Above is a screen shot of my ‘profile’ on our Prezi. My role is Project Manager, whereby […]
In thinking about our class objective, I began to focus on the importance of Diderot’s encyclopedie plates to the Tésse Room in terms of the greater understanding of and about 18th Century French decorative arts. The more I focused on ideas surrounding linking plates of the encyclopedie to, say, the […]
My experience thus far as a participant in Barnard’s A Virtual Enlightenment seminar has been nothing but extraordinary. All of my preceding expectations have been blown away and I feel as though I am on a rising exponential learning curve. As the image of such curve exists in my head, […]
