NDENCA Seminar | Photography and Plaster-Casting in Édouard Dantan’s Atelier Paintings

Emily Madrigal, Clark Art Institute

Emily Madrigal is an independent researcher and artist. She received her MA degree from the Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art at the Clark Art Institute in Massachusetts and her BA from Princeton University. She researches materials and representations of making with a focus in plaster and casting in nineteenth-century France. Having worked for years as a studio assistant for a sculptor and mold-maker, she is interested in looking at the history of a process and material through embodied fabrication knowledge.

“Photography and Plaster-Casting in Édouard Dantan’s Atelier Paintings”