Carl Magnusson
Carl Magnusson is currently a Guest Researcher at the University of Lausanne. He is preparing a book devoted to French discourses on decoration from the 16th to the 18th century. The aim of this book is to highlight the hegemony that the notion of decoration, as well as that of ornament, enjoyed in this textual corpus. It also aims to show how this hegemony began to be called into question in the second half of the eighteenth century; in other words, to go back to the period when a process was set in motion that led to a form of radical depreciation of decoration and ornament in the first half of the twentieth century.
After completing his graduate studies at the University of Lausanne (2003), Carl Magnusson worked as a trainee at Christie’s (Paris), the Musée Carnavalet, the Musée du Louvre and the Schweizerisches Nationalmuseum. Having been appointed as a Research assistant at the University of Lausanne, he then undertook PhD research on ornament sculptors in eighteenth-century Geneva. He completed and defended his dissertation in December 2011. He was thereafter appointed as an assistant professor at the same university for four years, focussing his teaching on the decorative arts in conjunction with architecture. He spent one and a half year at the Courtauld Institute of Art (London) as an Associate Lecturer and Invited Research Fellow (2016-2017); one year at the Getty Research Institute (Los Angeles) as a Guest Researcher (2017-2018); one year at the Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte in Paris (2018-2019).
He has organised and published the results of several conferences (Penser l'art dans la seconde moitié du XVIIIe siècle: théorie, critique, philosophie, histoire, 2013; Penser le rococo, 2017; Décor et architecture: entre union et séparation des arts, 2020).
After completing his graduate studies at the University of Lausanne (2003), Carl Magnusson worked as a trainee at Christie’s (Paris), the Musée Carnavalet, the Musée du Louvre and the Schweizerisches Nationalmuseum. Having been appointed as a Research assistant at the University of Lausanne, he then undertook PhD research on ornament sculptors in eighteenth-century Geneva. He completed and defended his dissertation in December 2011. He was thereafter appointed as an assistant professor at the same university for four years, focussing his teaching on the decorative arts in conjunction with architecture. He spent one and a half year at the Courtauld Institute of Art (London) as an Associate Lecturer and Invited Research Fellow (2016-2017); one year at the Getty Research Institute (Los Angeles) as a Guest Researcher (2017-2018); one year at the Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte in Paris (2018-2019).
He has organised and published the results of several conferences (Penser l'art dans la seconde moitié du XVIIIe siècle: théorie, critique, philosophie, histoire, 2013; Penser le rococo, 2017; Décor et architecture: entre union et séparation des arts, 2020).
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Les discours se multiplient, se nourrissent mutuellement, s’entremêlent. On discute des origines de l’art, de ses finalités, des moyens de le faire progresser… Les débats qui s’engagèrent et les systèmes explicatifs qui furent utilisés, pour la plupart, ne sont plus les nôtres, mais ils ont ouvert la voie, pour le meilleur et pour le pire, à la multiplicité des approches encore aujourd’hui usitées et qui font de l’art un objet de préoccupations largement partagées par les chercheurs et le public. Les actes de ce colloque témoignent du foisonnement intellectuel qui caractérise le siècle de l’abbé Du Bos, de Diderot et de Winckelmann.
Collection d’histoire de l’art n° 15 – Actes du colloque co-organisé par l’Académie de France à Rome – Villa Médicis et la Faculté des lettres de l’Université de Lausanne, avec le partenariat du Centre allemand d’histoire de l’art de Paris et l’Institut Suisse de Rome.