Lecture: Philip Eliasoph: “‘Hide-and-Seek’ on the Magic Realists’ Playground: Unmasking ‘Extraordinary’ Metaphors”

Philip Eliasoph is an American art historian, critic, curator and professor of art history in the department of visual and performing arts at Fairfield University. In this lecture, Eliasoph will focus on identity, magic and metaphor in Paul Cadmus’ 1947 painting “Playground,” featured in the exhibition “Extra Ordinary: Magic, Mystery and Imagination in American Art.” The program is free and open to the public, but registration is required at https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_T_KRlwAvTH-zTvI34GQk1w.

Sponsored by Jonathan Boos Gallery, New York.