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Description of Pictures: American Pictures: The American Pictures Distinguished Lecture Series offers a highly original approach to art and portraiture. This series pairs great works of art with leading figures of contemporary American culture. Each American Pictures lecture features an eminent writer, thinker, historian, or artist who unravels the meaning behind a single, powerful image. The series director of American Pictures is historian and essayist Adam Goodheart, who is director of the C. V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland.

Roz Chast on Charles Addams's Boiling Oil

Roz Chast is internationally recognized for her pioneering cartoons, which have appeared regularly in The New Yorker magazine since 1978. In addition to her work in The New Yorker, she had published cartoons in magazines ranging from Mother Jones to Town & Country and illustrated several children's books. Using a cast of recurring characters, generally hapless but relatively cheerful "everyfolk," she addresed the issues of modern life, including guilt, anxiety, aging, families, friends, money, and real estate. Chast has received several prestigious awards, among them an honorary doctorate from Pratt Institute in 1998. The most recent collection of her work is "Theories of Everything: Selected, Collected, and Health-Inspected Cartoons, 1978-2006" (2008). David Remick, editor of The New Yorker, has called her "the magazine's only certifiable genius."

The following is from http://news.washcoll.edu/press_releases/2009/04/10_rozchast.php :

American Pictures Series at Smithsonian Features Cartoonist Roz Chast
Chestertown, MD — Legendary New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast will appear on Sunday, April 26, as the final speaker in this spring's American Pictures Distinguished Lecture Series, a joint program of Washington College, the National Portrait Gallery and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
The American Pictures series offers a highly original approach to art, pairing great works with leading figures of American culture. This spring's all-star line-up has included Chast, iconic filmmaker John Waters (who appeared March 21), novelist Jamaica Kincaid (who appeared April 11) and presidential historian Harold Holzer (who appeared April 18). Each speaker has chosen a single powerful image and investigated its meanings, revealing how artworks reflect American identity and inspire creativity in many different fields. The series director is historian and essayist Adam Goodheart, Hodson Trust-Griswold Director of the college's C.V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience.
Chast has said she found her calling when she was 8 years old and came across some of Charles Addams' deliciously macabre cartoons. On April 26, she will discuss his famous "Boiling Oil." Addams was the creator of the Addams family of television and movie fame, and in the cartoon, a group of Christmas carolers serenades the family manse while the Addamses, hidden on the roof, prepare to douse them with a cauldron of boiling oil. Like Addams before her, Chast is a longtime contributor to The New Yorker, where editor David Remnick calls her "the magazine's only certifiable genius." Her work has been collected in nine books, most recently a 25-year survey of her work, titled Theories of Everything.

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- Chast, Roz appears on:
  - 2019_DC_Eulogy_190412 Politics & Prose -- Roz Chast and Patricia Marx ("Why Don't You Write My Eulogy Now So I Can Correct It?") w/Melissa Block
  - 2018_MD_SPX_Chast_180915 Small Press Expo (2018) -- Panel: Roz Chast In Conversation
  - 2018_MD_SPX_Other_180915 Small Press Expo (2018) -- Other
  - 2017_DC_NBF_ML_AT_170902 Natl Book Festival 2017 -- Mike Lester and Ann Telnaes (w/Michael Cavna, Gene Yang, then Roz Chast)
  - 2017_DC_NBF_Chast_170902 Natl Book Festival 2017 -- Roz Chast (w/Michael Cavna, Ann Telnaes, Mike Lester, then Lincoln Pierce)
  - 2017_DC_NBF_Peirce_170902 Natl Book Festival 2017 -- Lincoln Peirce (w/Michael Cavna and Roz Chast)
  - 2014_DC_Chast_140513 Politics & Prose -- Roz Chast ("Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?")
  - 2011_MD_SPX_Panel3_110911 Small Press Expo (2011) -- Panel: Roz Chast: From A to Z
  - 2011_MD_SPX_Other_110911 Small Press Expo (2011) -- Other
  - 2006_DC_Chast_061109 Smithsonian Associates -- Roz Chast
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- Goodheart, Adam appears on:
  - 2023_DC_Goodheart_230917 Politics & Prose -- Adam Goodheart ("The Last Island") w/Wil Haygood
  - 2017_DC_NHC_CWMon_171023 National History Center -- Congressional Briefing on the History of Civil War Monuments @ Rayburn House Office Bldg
  - 2011_DC_NBF_Goodheart_110925 Natl Book Festival 2011 -- Adam Goodheart
  - 2012_DC_Rosin_120911 Sixth & I -- Hanna Rosin ("The End of Man") w/David Plotz
  - 2012_VA_CWT_Goodheart_120610 CWT Annual Conference (2012) in Richmond, VA -- Adam Goodheart talk
  - 2012_VA_CWT_Breakfast_120610 CWT Annual Conference (2012) in Richmond, VA -- Closing Breakfast
  - 2012_DC_SIPG_Tour_120407 Reynolds Center (NPG) -- Tour: Adam Goodheart Civil War tour for Washington College
  - 2012_DC_Horwitz_120407 Reynolds Center & Washington College -- Tony Horwitz ("Midnight Rising")
  - 2012_DC_Goodheart_120118 Natl Archives -- Adam Goodheart ("1861: The Civil War Awakening")
  - 2011_DC_Goodheart_110423 Reynolds Center (NPG) -- Author Talk: Adam Goodheart ("1861: The Civil War Awakening")
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