The Art Institute of Chicago
Mayhem and Monsters
11/29, 6-7 p.m. Fullerton Hall Free

Sarah Burns, Indiana University, discusses her pivotal book Painting the Dark Side: Art and the Gothic Imagination in 19th-Century America, as she traces the evolution of art from a "romantic calling to a calculated career" on November 29 at 6:00. A booksigning follows.

This lecture is made possible by the Terra Foundation for American Art as part of American Art American City, a Chicago celebration of historical American art.


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