BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory//NONSGML Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://ahva.ubc.ca/events/event/ X-WR-CALDESC:Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory - Events BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260210T0148Z-1770688107.5169-EO-35778-37@10.19.146.23 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260815T121020Z CREATED:20260209T203109Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260303T232502Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260225T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260225T190000 SUMMARY: Kathryn Desplanque – The Starving Artist Is a Necessity of Capital ism DESCRIPTION: A public lecture by Kathryn Desplanque as part of the Joan Car lisle-Irving Lecture Series X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

A public lecture by Kathryn Des planque as part of the Joan Carlisle-Irvi ng Lecture Series

5:30 p.m.\, Wedne sday\, February 25\, 2026
Room 102\, Frederic Lasserre Building
6333 Mem orial Road\, University of British Columbia

Please contact the AHVA Visual Resources Centre for access to the event recording: ahva.vrc@ubc.ca

Kathryn Desplanque presents her findings from her first book project\, Inglorious Artists: Art-World Satire and the Emergence of a Capitalist Market for Art in Paris\, 1750–1850 (University of Delaware Press\, 2025). Explori ng a corpus of over 500 published satirical images and over 70 items of pop ular and panoramic fiction\, Desplanque tracks the emerging and evolving tr ope of the starving artist across multiple political regimes. Through an an alysis that marries the trope's shifts and fluctuations with structural uph eavals in Paris' art world\, Desplanque excavates the lost voices of Parisi an artists as they protested the impacts of structural change on their mate rial livelihood and creative production. Desplanque's scholarly voice strad dles the material and the intellectual\, and through personal narrative\, m aterial explorations\, and memories of serendipity and whimsy\, they weave the experience of research into the storytelling of its findings. 

Kathryn Desplanq ue (she/they)\, a queer mixed Black m ultigenerational immigrant raised in Ottawa\, Ontario\, is currently on unp aid leave from her role as assistant professor of 18th- and 19th-century European art history at UNC Chapel Hill\, and is serving on a contract as curator at Carleton Univ ersity Art Gallery. Desplanque earned her PhD from Duke University in 2017 and held a Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship. Desplanque's first book\, Inglorious Artists: Art-World Satire and th e Emergence of a Capitalist Market for Art in Paris\, 1750–1850\, is published by University of Delaware press a longside the digital publication of her corpus available from UNC Chapel Hi ll Digital Services. Her scholarship has been published in RACAR\, < i>Eighteenth-Century Studies\, The Art Bulletin\ , and several edited volumes.< /p>

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Image: Anonymous. < i>Monsieur Crouton dans son Attelier\, ou le Tri omphe des arts\, 1816. Published by A aron Martinet. Paris\, Musée Carnavalet. < /span>

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