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Venuses in Prison & Colony: Abjection & Neoclassical Fashion in the 1790s

Dr. Amelia Rauser, professor of art history at Franklin & Marshall College, discusses her study of the radical style of “undress” in the 1790s & its connection to the aesthetic, political & scientific thought of the historical moment. Duquesne Union, Africa Room. Email [email protected] for more information.