Tessinföreläsning

Datum: 4 november 2014
Tid: kl 16
Plats: Biografen
Språk: Engelska
Pris: Fri entré. Begränsat antal platser.

Tessinföreläsningen är en årlig föreläsning inom konstvetenskap där Nationalmuseum bjuder in en välrenommerad internationell forskare. Föreläsningarna sker ofta i samarbete med andra institutioner som Uppsala universitet, Stockholms universitet eller Moderna Museet.

Om föreläsningen (på engelska)

Interior Fictions: Dressing-gowns and Shipwrecks in Diderot’s “Regrets”

The lecture’s subject is an amusing short story written by the eighteenth-century French philosophe Denis Diderot in which he describes the transformation of his writing room or cabinet from modest redoubt to luxury study in the wake of the gift of a new dressing-gown. The lecture explores the themes of human folly and responsibility as they were addressed by the interior, its furnishings and decoration. It asks what kind of a space was the room of a man of letters ideally in the eighteenth century? Was pleasure always denied him in his public function, or could it be made compatible with truth and virtue?