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Tuesday, November 03, 2009 4:30 p.m.

Robert Cozzolino, curator of modern art, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. In breaking with conventions of beauty, narrative, perspective, form, and color associated with High Renaissance canons, many mid-twentieth-century American artists turned to Gothic art. For these modernists, medieval visual culture provided an alternate "irrational" or conceptually "realist" conception of the body and its place in the world. Ivan Albright, Peter Blume, Paul Cadmus, Jacob Lawrence, George Tooker, Grant Wood, and others borrowed from the Gothic as they formulated their own response to modernist ideology. What appealed to these modern artists as they mined medieval culture? Co-sponsored by the Department of Art History. FREE ADMISSION.

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