Leslie Geddes
@orlandafuriosa.bsky.social
Art historian. Early modernist. Leonardista. Writing a history of maps and renderings of coastlines. Thinking about the blurred edges of things. Views my own.
Please share widely with your networks that applications are open for Bvlbancha Rising: Louisiana Coastal Landmarks Imperiled by Climate Change, a National Endowment for the Humanities Landmarks of American History and
Culture program hosted by Tulane University, New Orleans, to be held June 2025!
Culture program hosted by Tulane University, New Orleans, to be held June 2025!
February 8, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Please share widely with your networks that applications are open for Bvlbancha Rising: Louisiana Coastal Landmarks Imperiled by Climate Change, a National Endowment for the Humanities Landmarks of American History and
Culture program hosted by Tulane University, New Orleans, to be held June 2025!
Culture program hosted by Tulane University, New Orleans, to be held June 2025!
Excited to share that applications are open for “Bvlbancha Rising: Louisiana Coastal Landmarks Imperiled by Climate Change”, an NEH Landmarks of American History and Culture program to be held in June 2025! www.sitesofmemorynola.org/neh
January 1, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Excited to share that applications are open for “Bvlbancha Rising: Louisiana Coastal Landmarks Imperiled by Climate Change”, an NEH Landmarks of American History and Culture program to be held in June 2025! www.sitesofmemorynola.org/neh
And ghostly looking ships!
December 6, 2024 at 3:51 PM
And ghostly looking ships!
Hey print scholars! Could these animals be… stamped? Presumably after the sheet was printed? Anybody seen anything similar? From a world map pasted into pilot guide of 1743.
December 6, 2024 at 3:50 PM
Hey print scholars! Could these animals be… stamped? Presumably after the sheet was printed? Anybody seen anything similar? From a world map pasted into pilot guide of 1743.
While the YCBA undergoes renovations, the symposium is being held in Rudolph Hall which is just a gorgeous example of Brutalist architecture (go see the Met show!)
December 5, 2024 at 6:32 PM
While the YCBA undergoes renovations, the symposium is being held in Rudolph Hall which is just a gorgeous example of Brutalist architecture (go see the Met show!)
The Yale Center for British Art’s landscape symposium is kicking off now with Sarah Mead Leonard’s opening remarks. It can be streamed (and is being recorded for later posting), if you can’t join in person!
December 5, 2024 at 6:22 PM
The Yale Center for British Art’s landscape symposium is kicking off now with Sarah Mead Leonard’s opening remarks. It can be streamed (and is being recorded for later posting), if you can’t join in person!
Looking at a Leonardo drawing always feels to me a bit like throwing yourself towards gale-force winds. Here’s his drawing of a storm, one which basically demands that you give in to the forcefulness of the drawing itself. (Windsor Castle, RL 12376)
December 4, 2023 at 1:47 AM
Looking at a Leonardo drawing always feels to me a bit like throwing yourself towards gale-force winds. Here’s his drawing of a storm, one which basically demands that you give in to the forcefulness of the drawing itself. (Windsor Castle, RL 12376)
Shadow portrait of an art historian at work, after looking at maps and books and sharing them with a class at Princeton.
November 6, 2023 at 9:59 PM
Shadow portrait of an art historian at work, after looking at maps and books and sharing them with a class at Princeton.
Tenure dossier freshly submitted, I now pivot to scouring hedges and verges for a neighbor’s rogue tortoise.
October 4, 2023 at 9:26 PM
Tenure dossier freshly submitted, I now pivot to scouring hedges and verges for a neighbor’s rogue tortoise.
Hugh Hayden on the poetics of camouflage, delivering the 2023 Sandra Garrard Memorial Lecture at Tulane, in conjunction with the Newcomb Art Museum’s exhibition, Emancipation: The Unfinished Project of Liberation.
September 27, 2023 at 12:29 AM
Hugh Hayden on the poetics of camouflage, delivering the 2023 Sandra Garrard Memorial Lecture at Tulane, in conjunction with the Newcomb Art Museum’s exhibition, Emancipation: The Unfinished Project of Liberation.
The Seeing Race Before Race exhibition at the Newberry is extraordinary. So many thoughtfully selected, chilling objects brought together in two rooms. #seeingRB4R #RaceB4Race #NewberryCRS
September 26, 2023 at 10:51 PM
The Seeing Race Before Race exhibition at the Newberry is extraordinary. So many thoughtfully selected, chilling objects brought together in two rooms. #seeingRB4R #RaceB4Race #NewberryCRS
Fitting in an afternoon with rare books at the Newberry a month into a breakneck semester is a GIFT. Chaotic naval battles! A deliciously purple-tinted world map!
September 25, 2023 at 5:34 PM
Fitting in an afternoon with rare books at the Newberry a month into a breakneck semester is a GIFT. Chaotic naval battles! A deliciously purple-tinted world map!
Since I’ve now joined Bluesky… take a look at this wonderful tempestuous sky! Detail of a maiolica plate at the Getty I’ve been working on. Happy I thought to take a photo of it two summers ago before I knew it would become such a fixation for me.
September 21, 2023 at 1:46 AM
Since I’ve now joined Bluesky… take a look at this wonderful tempestuous sky! Detail of a maiolica plate at the Getty I’ve been working on. Happy I thought to take a photo of it two summers ago before I knew it would become such a fixation for me.