Bridget Elliott specializes in the study of Western modernism from the 19th to 21st centuries with a particular emphasis on the decorative and the ornamental as well as on aesthetics of excess (e.g. decadence, art nouveau and art deco); intersections of ‘high’ art and ‘popular’ culture, including art’s role in everyday life and its connections to interior design and fashion; relationships between art and literature and art and film (especially in the films of Peter Greenaway); museums, collecting, archives and other heterotopic practices in the art world; as well as the gendering of artistic production and theory. Her most recent research project focuses artists’ houses and maison musées in nineteenth century England and France.
(from http:/Bridget Elliott specializes in the study of Western modernism from the 19th to 21st centuries with a particular emphasis on the decorative and the ornamental as well as on aesthetics of excess (e.g. decadence, art nouveau and art deco); intersections of ‘high’ art and ‘popular’ culture, including art’s role in everyday life and its connections to interior design and fashion; relationships between art and literature and art and film (especially in the films of Peter Greenaway); museums, collecting, archives and other heterotopic practices in the art world; as well as the gendering of artistic production and theory. Her most recent research project focuses artists’ houses and maison musées in nineteenth century England and France.