Oliver Wunsch

Assistant Professor of Art History at Boston College. 18th + 19th c. France. Fragility, materiality, and skin. Author of A Delicate Matter @PSUPress (2024)

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Received an advance copy of my book. Hope you’re more impressed than my cat was. Book comes out in January. Many thanks to @PSUPress and @art_word for making it look beautiful.

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New: ProPublica is sharing eight handwritten letters from children who have been held at the detention center that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was recently released from. We'll let their words speak for themselves. https://t.co/hdxtf8SRtE

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@HamptonThink @_John_Handel Worth noting that the Obama administration rejected Homan’s child separation proposal. And your quote is from the Washington Post, not Obama. I think your tweet is a hasty summary of the Wikipedia article on Homan.

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I have a new article in the current issue of @AAH_Journal. It’s about how audiences in 18th-century France could admire Black people in art while denigrating them in life, believing that art possessed uniquely ameliorating effects. https://t.co/5i2Bh9PVlM

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I enjoyed talking with ⁦@brookehauser⁩ for her ⁦@BostonGlobe⁩ story about the political symbolism of red and what it means to own a color. https://t.co/35Br7Pyfqr

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‘The perishability of art, long seen by art historians as little more than an impediment to research, is a subject of interest in itself; a feature rather than a bug.’ Kirsten Tambling on @Oliver_Wunsch’s book about the fragile business of French art

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I’m very grateful to Mimi Hellman for this generous review of my book in CAA Reviews: https://t.co/LgA5Bhne8G @caavisual

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Thrilled and amazed that Michael Clune, one of my favorite writers, reviewed my book in @CriticalInquiry

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"Oliver Wunsch’s book offers us that rare thing—a study of the social forces shaping art that illuminates aesthetic achievement."

New in review, Michael Clune on Oliver Wunsch's A Delicate Matter, from @PSUPress: https://t.co/uON1EHLZbe

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It was a treat to speak with the @NewBooksNetwork about A Delicate Matter. You can listen here or wherever you get podcasts: https://t.co/ZoYTgV8PXj

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You can read my original article in @BurlingtonMag for free today (they temporarily removed the paywall): https://t.co/NyRjxjGZfy

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Delighted to see how much Martin Bailey has built on my research into Toulouse-Lautrec's "Black Countess" in the current issue of @TheArtNewspaper https://t.co/SubXGc0sc4

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It feels weird to ask people to buy a book about consumption, but I'm here to say you can get 40% off A Delicate Matter (plus free shipping in US) during the CAA annual conference. Use discount code CAA24 when you order here: https://t.co/pRE2jpUiKJ

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My book comes out today! In honor of its launch, here is Clodion's model monument to the invention of balloon flight. You can read more about his fragile terracottas in Chapter 4 of A Delicate Matter, out now with @PSUPress https://t.co/pRE2jpTKVb

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My book is now available for pre-order! You can get a 30% discount with code NR24 when you purchase through @PSUPress https://t.co/pRE2jpTKVb

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Among the many reasons to celebrate his research on La Tour is the fact that it is all available for free online: https://t.co/YaZoG4S274

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It was a treat to review @neiljeffares 's remarkable work on Maurice-Quentin de La Tour for the latest issue of Master Drawings: https://t.co/YNBrHcRu5r

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@wunschcritcare Thanks, Hannah!

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@eugeniaschraa Thanks for documenting all of this!

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Thank you to @Journal18_ for giving me a chance to write about "Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment" @harvartmuseums. The show is open until January 15! https://t.co/nbFIFxUyVN

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@AaronRHanlon I would get a used 90s mountain bike (~$100), then put on studded tires and fenders. No need for a fancy bike—the tires are way more important. Schwalbe Marathon Winter tires are great.