From Impression to Projection – Making Fantasies in the Chinoiserie designs of the Preissler Workshop

Dr. Iris Moon, Associate Curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, builds upon her exhibition, Monstrous Beauty: A Feminist Revision of Chinoiserie (2025), to consider the work of the Preissler Workshop. These bohemian decorators of porcelain, active in the early eighteenth-century, transformed Chinoiserie from a style in Europe that described rare luxuries imported from Asia, into a domestic European idiom that activated surfaces into sites of fantasy and projection.

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This lecture is organized by Brown University’s Department of the History of Art and Architecture in collaboration with the RISD Museum.