Northern Light: Realism and Symbolism in Scandinavian Painting [11/10/1982-01/09/1983], Symposium, 11/19/1982-11/20/1982

Welcoming remarks by Gerard LeFrancois; Opening remarks by Kirk Vanedoe; "Romanticism and 'New Romanticism' in Norwegian Painting" by Magne Malmanger; "Tahiti in the Wilderness: Symbolist and Synthetist Landscape Painting in the North" by Roald Nasgaard; "Retreating from the Banality of Life: Scandinavian Symbolism and Edvard Munch" by Reinhold Heller; "Ibsen, Strindberg and the Visual Arts" by Evert Sprinchorn; "'Modern' as an Adjective of Quality: American Perceptions of Scandinavian Art" by William H. Gerdts; "The 'Kelevala' Mysticism of Akseli Gallen-Kallela" by Salme Sarajas-Korte; "The Lyricism of Nature and the Landscape of the Soul: Crosscurrents between Scandinavian and German Painting" by Gert Schiff; "Nineteenth-Century Revisionism and Scandinavian Painting" by Robert Rosenblum; and finally a panel discsussion with all participants and moderated by Kirk Varnedoe.