Interessi di ricerca
- Polychrome sculpture
- Encaustic painting
- Anatomical models
- Materiality and mediality
- Theories of verisimilitude
Progetto di ricerca
Before the Reality Effect: Wax Representations in Eighteenth-Century France
Pubblicazioni (Selezione)
- "Anatomy of the Bel Effet: Wax between Science and Art", Journal18, Issue 3 Lifelike (Spring 2017) "Anatomy of the Bel Effet". URL: http://www.journal18.org/issue3/anatomy-of-the-bel-effet-wax-between-science-and-art/ (accesso 05.09.2019)
Curriculum vitae
Charles is completing his Ph.D. at the Columbia University. He holds a
M.A. from the Williams College/Clark Art Institute Graduate Program and a
B.A. from the University of Chicago, both in art history. A specialist
in eighteenth-century French art, he is interested in visual traditions
and media beyond the familiar hierarchies of the academy system. His
dissertation explores Enlightenment notions of verisimilitude and
pictorial truth through wax-based objects, such as polychrome sculpture,
encaustic painting, and anatomical models. In addition to finishing the
dissertation at the Bibliotheca Hertziana, Charles will embark on his
next project, which will reexamine the origins of Neoclassicism through
the print market in early eighteenth-century Rome and its role in the
interregional network of antiquarians. His other research interests
include depictions of technology before the Industrial Revolution,
history of collecting, and early-modern European engagement with East
Asian art. He was an Interpretive Fellow of the Frick Collection
(2016–2017) and a participant in the Center for Curatorial
Leadership/Mellon Foundation Seminar in Curatorial Practice (2017). In
addition to co-curating Works as Progress/Works in Progress: Drawing in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century France
(2010) at the Williams College Museum of Art, Charles has held
positions and internships at the Clark Art Institute, Guggenheim Abu
Dhabi, and Dia Art Foundation.