Sarah Rapoport

Sarah Rapoport is a PhD candidate in History of Art specializing in nineteenth-century British and French art with a focus on artistic and cultural exchange across the English Channel. Her dissertation highlights a series of encounters between artists - printmakers, painters, and sculptors - with the institutions, ideas, processes, and materials of French and British industrial design reform in the nineteenth century. She examines how projects undertaken in craft mediums - such as cloisonné enamel, transfer-printed ceramics, and medallions - offered these artists the opportunity to think reflexively about their own practice. In re-staging these encounters, this project excavates an approach to artistic and craft labor that engaged seriously with new modes of production often dismissed as cheap, fast, and unskilled.

Department: History of Art