Dr. Ben Harvey

British art historian interested in French & British Art, Cézanne, Fry, Woolf, Bloomsbury, word & image studies.

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The SECAC2025 (Cincinatti) call for papers is now out. If your work touches on art and the law, consider contributing to our panel on "Incendiary Copying: Artists in Conflict Over Intellectual Property." Here's the CFP. Oh, and please help to spread the word! #ArtHistory

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Latest issue of Art Inquiries (SECAC's magazine). Got to love a quality open access #art and #arthistory publication.... https://t.co/EgZm3Q7gIm

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Had a fun evening watching MSState women score five great goals against Mizzou. During lulls in the game, we looked up and enjoyed the sight of nighthawks swirling around, feeding on all the insects lured in by the floodlights. Different types of feeding frenzies. @HailStateSOC

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C. Michelle Lindley, author of The Nude: A Novel, suggests five other (recent) novels about art. https://t.co/rUZOtr77SS

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In Our Time discusses Monet in London….
https://t.co/3tHMs8bJRN

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Recently visited Prince--I mean KING--Charles's Poundbury. If you're unaware of the place's royal connections, then the massive sculpture of the Queen Mother is your clue!

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Back from the "Art of History" conference at Nottingham Uni. Very much enjoyed meeting everyone and presenting on Norman Rockwell's images of Abraham Lincoln. There may be some sort of publication emerging from the conference, so look out for that!

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Nice idea. The apotropaic corgis will keep the pigeons away and protect Her Majesty

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"The Great Liberator meets the Great Emancipator." Double exposure photograph of Houdini and Lincoln (1920s).

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A nod to Lucio Fontana on the cover of Rushdie’s new memoir.

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Enjoying the beautiful b&w photography in Netflix’s Ripley, and all the Caravaggio love. Also: one of the best judgy cats in recent memory.

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The children in Wright's painting draw our attention to an eclipse--possibly (one imagines) the topic of the lecturer's talk. Love the original, full title of the work: "A Philosopher giving that Lecture on the Orrery in which a lamp is put in place of the Sun."

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Just happen to be teaching Wright of Derby's Orrery today, which is appropriate given that a full solar eclipse will be happening nearby.

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"As well, it supplies Aix, which until now owned no works by the artist, with its very first Cézanne." Except there are four Cezannes at the Musée Granet--two of which are on loan from the Musée D'Orsay. https://t.co/oq6qdQiUQk

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Good to hear Bernard Palissy being mentioned in Saltburn.
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[Dr. Ben Harvey @Obridge]

The latest issue of Art Inquiries (SECAC's open access journal) is now out. https://t.co/tO9O0J5FVU

[Dr. Ben Harvey @Obridge]

One of the more curious things at the Met’s Manet/Degas show: Degas’s small caricatures of Napoleon III and Bismarck

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The latest Fake or Fortune deals with Cezanne and Pissarro works-on-paper. For the geoblocked, here it is: https://t.co/ARKMcYFXC0