Fashion and Ostentation: The Politics of Porcelain I The New School

The Twenty-Fifth Annual Parsons/Cooper Hewitt Graduate Student Symposium on the History of Design is a two day symposium run by the Masters Program in the History of Design and Curatorial Studies() at The New School (), housed in the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. The symposium explores issues relating to ornament and excess—or their conspicuous avoidance—in relation to social structures, aesthetics, technology, politics and economics. Presentations address material ranging from Renaissance portraiture and Baroque tapestries, to modernist plexiglass products and twentieth-century automobile design. “The Politics of Porcelain: Collecting Meissen in Poland and the Creation of National Identity in the Long Eighteenth Century“