Category: Art

• Two Friends

  

  Last Friday, Nineteenth Century French Studies shared a wonderful conversation between Dr. Colin Foss and Prof. Nicholas White, about Foss’s new book The Culture of War: Literature of the Siege of Paris, 1870–71. During the presentation, Foss briefly mentioned a short story by Guy de Maupassant, “Deux Amis” (1883), set during the siege of Paris.…

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  February 18, 2021

  Art, Guy de Maupassant

  19th century, france, pandemic, paris, translation, Writing

• Research Trip to Paris, 2015 (part 4): Monet at the Orangerie

  

  Here are a few more photos from my trip. This part isn’t strictly research related, but I had never been to the Orangerie before. And it was a pleasure of seeing these wall-sized paintings by Monet, in the space they were originally intended to be displayed. I wanted to post every photo I took there,…

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  April 15, 2019

  Art, Impressionism, travel

  beyond the Orsay, Claude Monet, conference, conference travel, france, grant travel, Impressionism, Monet, orangerie, paris, research, research travel, travel