Research Webinar: Léa Kuhn

Organised by Dr. Merel van Tilburg and Dr. Eelco Nagelsmit, University of Groningen

Research Center Arts in Society

‘Staging savoir-faire: Authorship and the Division of Labour in Emile Gallé’s Glass Works’

Already in the 1880s, the Nancy-born maître verrier, céramiste and ébéniste Emile Gallé had gained an international reputation as one of the leading glass artists in the world. At the time, especially his participations at the World’s Fairs added much to his international fame. This is why it is worthwhile analysing the public display of his objets d’art at these exhibitions more in detail. This paper argues that for Gallé, the public display especially of his glass objects at the big international exhibitions of his time not only offered an ideal stage for presenting his latest production. Rather, they provided the means to present publicly an easily narratable version of their underlying production processes and their specific savoir-faire. Accordingly, his exhibition participations served him as a twofold presentation medium, combining works and working process, as this paper will demonstrate.

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