Jessica Priebe
Dr Jessica Priebe is an art historian, lecturer, researcher and advisor in generative AI, blockchain and metaverse curation. Jessica teaches at the National Art School in Sydney. She is also an adjunct advisor in emerging technologies at the Museum of Contemporary Art and a researcher with RMIT’s Blockchain Innovation Hub. A former research fellow at Sydney University, Jessica has published widely on art, collecting, education and emerging technology. Her current research project focuses on the role of generative AI and decentralised technologies in art education and draws on her experience developing curriculum-based generative AI art and metaverse programs and immersive experiences in schools (K-12), universities, galleries and museums in Australia and Singapore. At the National Art School, Jessica teaches with a Web3-enabled curriculum, a first for an Australian art institution. Jessica has advised at both State and Federal Governments, including in the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister of Australia.
Jessica is the author of François Boucher and the Art of Collecting in Eighteenth-Century France (Routledge, 2021). Her essays appear in Sea Currents in Nineteenth-Century Art, Science and Culture: Commodifying the Ocean World (Bloomsbury, 2023), British Art Studies (2021), PMC Notes (2021), Making Ideas Visible in the Eighteenth Century (University of Delaware Press, 2021), The Journal of the History of Collections (2016), Un Abrégé du Monde: Savoirs et Collections autour de Dezallier d'Argenville (Fage éditions, 2012), Künstlersammlungen: Objekte, Ordnungen, Programmatiken (Edition Metzel, forthcoming 2024) and Material Selves (Bloomsbury, forthcoming 2024).
Jessica is the author of François Boucher and the Art of Collecting in Eighteenth-Century France (Routledge, 2021). Her essays appear in Sea Currents in Nineteenth-Century Art, Science and Culture: Commodifying the Ocean World (Bloomsbury, 2023), British Art Studies (2021), PMC Notes (2021), Making Ideas Visible in the Eighteenth Century (University of Delaware Press, 2021), The Journal of the History of Collections (2016), Un Abrégé du Monde: Savoirs et Collections autour de Dezallier d'Argenville (Fage éditions, 2012), Künstlersammlungen: Objekte, Ordnungen, Programmatiken (Edition Metzel, forthcoming 2024) and Material Selves (Bloomsbury, forthcoming 2024).
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The article is a preview of a longer essay that will appear in the next issue of British Art Studies, the PMC’s online journal. That issue has the special theme ‘Redefining the British Decorative Arts’ and is guest-edited by Iris Moon, an assistant curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It will be published in autumn/winter 2021.
almost entirely absent from the existing field of historical scholarship. This article brings to light Boucher’s activities as a collector, in particular his interest in natural objects for which he was especially well known. It also considers the extent to which Boucher’s passion for collectable objects had an impact on his practice as an artist.
C O N T E N T S
Introduction: In Pursuit of Pleasure
Part 1: The Artist as Agent
1 Modernizing Watteau: Marketing Luxury in France and Sweden
2 Boucher and the Art of Conchyliomanie
Part 2: The Artist as Collector
3 Trading Places: Boucher as a Collector of Fine Art
4 The Business of Collecting
Part 3: The Collector as Artist
5 A New Address: Boucher at the Louvre
6 Boucher’s Cabinet of Natural History
7 The Artist Inspired: Representing Genius and the Art of Emulation
The article is a preview of a longer essay that will appear in the next issue of British Art Studies, the PMC’s online journal. That issue has the special theme ‘Redefining the British Decorative Arts’ and is guest-edited by Iris Moon, an assistant curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It will be published in autumn/winter 2021.
almost entirely absent from the existing field of historical scholarship. This article brings to light Boucher’s activities as a collector, in particular his interest in natural objects for which he was especially well known. It also considers the extent to which Boucher’s passion for collectable objects had an impact on his practice as an artist.
C O N T E N T S
Introduction: In Pursuit of Pleasure
Part 1: The Artist as Agent
1 Modernizing Watteau: Marketing Luxury in France and Sweden
2 Boucher and the Art of Conchyliomanie
Part 2: The Artist as Collector
3 Trading Places: Boucher as a Collector of Fine Art
4 The Business of Collecting
Part 3: The Collector as Artist
5 A New Address: Boucher at the Louvre
6 Boucher’s Cabinet of Natural History
7 The Artist Inspired: Representing Genius and the Art of Emulation