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Upcoming Exhibitions
BGC Gallery will resume its exhibition programming this September with the return of Sèvres Extraordinaire: Sculpture from 1740 until Today, originally slated for fall 2024.
Bard Graduate Center is an advanced graduate research institute in New York City dedicated to the cultural histories of the material world. Our MA and PhD degree programs, Gallery exhibitions, research initiatives, scholarly publications and public programs explore new ways of thinking about decorative arts, design history, and material culture.

About
28th Annual Iris Foundation Awards
Honoring Irene Roosevelt Aitken, Dr. Julius Bryant, Dr. Meredith Martin, and Katherine Purcell





Publications

Bard Graduate Center publishes award-winning exhibition catalogues, books, and journals focusing on scholarship in the decorative arts, design history, and material culture.

Contemporary Artists
Publications
Barbara Nessim
An Artful Life


Publications
Waterweavers
A Chronicle of Rivers

Publications
Sheila Hicks
Weaving as Metaphor

Publications
Richard Tuttle
What Is the Object?
BGCX
Publications
Ritual and Capital
BGCX
2020

Publications
What is Research?
BGCX
2021

Publications
What is Conservation?
BGCX
2023

A study of the porcelain works at Sevres during its rebirth under the 47-year direction of Alexandre Brongniart. The book includes table services in the Egyptian and Etruscan taste as well as individual pieces that recall Napoleonic military campaigns.

Table of Contents
Foreword
Susan Weber Soros

Preface
George Touzenis

Introduction
Derek E. Ostergard

1. France Between the Revolution, 1789-1848
Laurie Dahlberg

2. Alexandre Brongniart: Scholar and Member of the Institut de France
Anne Lajoix

3. Brongniart as Administrator
Tamara Preaud

4. Brongniart as Technician
Tamara Preaud

5. Brongniart and the Art of Ceramics
Tamara Preaud

6. The Nature and Goals of Production at the Sevres Manufactory
Tamara Preaud

7. The Stained-Glass and Painting-on-Glass Workshop at Sevres
Karole Bezut

8. Sculptures at Sevres During the Brongniart Administration
Tamara Preaud

9. Brongniart as Taxonomist and Museologist: The Significance of the Musee Ceramique at Sevres
Sylvie Millasseau

10. Two Controversial Decisions by Alexandre Brongniart
Antione d’Albis

11. Clay, Pedagogy, and Progress: The Enquete des Prefets, 1805-1810
Beatrice Pannequin

Catalogue of the Exhibition
Tamara Preaud

Appendix: Factory Marks

Glossary

Bibliography

Index
Images