Noir: The Romance of Black in 19th-Century French Drawings and Prints garden of delight and cult places

and cult places

and the 'making' of forms and space

Drawings at the Milwaukee Art Museum and the Albertina in Vienna (2011–12)

seen through the lens of period financial fears and speculations

research advances

Noir: The Romance of Black in 19th-Century French Drawings and Prints garden of delight and cult placesEdited by Lee Hendrix With contributions by Lee Hendrix, Cynthia Burlingham, Laurel Garber, Timothy David Mayhew, Michelle Sullivan, and Nancy Yocco Due to the technological advances of the nineteenth century, an abundance of black drawing media exploded onto the market. Charcoal, conte crayon, and fabricated black chalks and crayons; fixatives; various papers; and many lifting devices gave rise to an unprecedented amount of experimentation. Indeed,