Please join Carleton University Art Gallery (CUAG) for a conversation between W. McAllister Johnson and Dr. Stéphane Roy in conjunction with the exhibition Making and Marketing Art History in 18th-century France. The exhibition examines the collaboration between painters and printmakers in the 18th-century, which dramatically expanded public knowledge of notable paintings. These universally accessible fine art prints shaped French culture and the discipline of art history.

W. McAllister Johnson is professor emeritus in the Department of Art of the University of Toronto. His extensive bibliography concerns artistic process, relations between painting and prints, and prints as an instrument of culture. Most recently he was authored for the University of Toronto Press Versified Prints in 18th-century France (2012) and The Rise and Fall of the Fine Art Print (forthcoming).

Dr. Stéphane Roy is an Assistant Professor of Art History at Carleton University. He is currently working on a book project entitled Another Tale of Two Cities: Prints and Printmaking in Eighteenth-Century London and Paris, which considers the art and trade of engravings in a transnational perspective. He has published extensively on 18th-century print culture (in French, English and German) and has given numerous papers in Europe and North America. Before joining Carleton, Roy spent three years at the Yale Center for British Art as a research associate in the Department of Prints and Drawings.

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