Panel Discussion: Monster Mash Up
Tuesday, March 22, 6pm
Logan Center for the Arts
915 East 60th Street
Performance Penthouse
The years following World War II were marked for many as a time of growing unrest and anxiety.
The burgeoning Cold War and McCarthyism were shaping the country’s political climate, while the growing Civil Rights Movement was beginning to reveal the vast and brutal injustices faced by persons of color in America. Perhaps most emblematic of their times, Chicago artists associated with the Monster Roster employed a figurative style imbued with deep, and often dark, psychological tones portraying what one critic referred to as “the figure under stress.”
This panel convenes writers, curators, historians, and artists to plumb the social, political, and cultural context of postwar Chicago, to better understand what contributed to the making of the Monster.
Free, but space is limited. Please register in advance.
PANELISTS
Thomas Dyja
Author of The Third Coast: When Chicago Built the American Dream
Lynne Warren
Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Mark Pascale
Janet and Craig Duchossois Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago
John Corbett
Co-curator of Monster Roster at the Smart and adjunct associate professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
More information is available here.
Image: Leon Golub, The Ischian Sphinx, 1956, oil and lacquer on canvas