{"id":518,"date":"2014-02-24T09:11:56","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T15:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.lib.luc.edu\/friends\/?p=518"},"modified":"2026-01-12T15:34:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T21:34:17","slug":"ascending-peculiarities-edward-gorey-and-his-sources-an-exercise-in-presumption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/friends\/2014\/02\/24\/ascending-peculiarities-edward-gorey-and-his-sources-an-exercise-in-presumption\/","title":{"rendered":"Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey and His Sources (an exercise in presumption)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.lib.luc.edu\/friends\/files\/2014\/02\/bird-and-man-with-copy-info.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.lib.luc.edu\/friends\/files\/2014\/02\/bird-and-man-with-copy-info-216x300.jpg\" alt=\"bird and man with copy info\" width=\"216\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px;\u201d size-medium wp-image-529\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/friends\/files\/2014\/02\/bird-and-man-with-copy-info-216x300.jpg 216w, https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/friends\/files\/2014\/02\/bird-and-man-with-copy-info.jpg 525w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><p align=\"center\"><strong>THIRD ANNUAL GREGORY AND ROSALIND TERRY LECTURE<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>\n<p><p align=\"center\">&#8220;Ascending Peculiarity:<br \/>\nEdward Gorey and His Sources<br \/>\n(an exercise in presumption)&#8221;<\/h3>\n<p align=\"center\">Featuring <strong><br \/>\nKaren Wilkin<\/strong>, author of<br \/>\n<em>Elegant Enigmas: The Art of Edward Gorey<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Wednesday, April 9, 2014<br \/>\n7 PM<br \/>\nCrown Center Auditorium<br \/>\nLake Shore Campus<br \/>\nLoyola University Chicago<br \/>\n1001-25 W. Loyola Avenue<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Please join the Loyola University Chicago Libraries for one of the highlight events of the Edward Gorey exhibition season as we welcome writer, independent curator, and critic specializing in 20th century modernism, Karen Wilkin.  An expert on and friend of the late Gorey, Ms. Wilkin will be joined by special guests <strong>Thomas Michalak (BS \u201963)<\/strong>, Gorey collector, and <strong>Andreas Brown<\/strong>, Trustee of the Edward Gorey Charitable Trust.<\/p>\n<p>A book signing will follow this free program made possible by the generosity of Loyola alumni John and Terese Terry.  <\/p>\n<p>Registration is encouraged. Please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/alumni.luc.edu\/s\/1548\/alumni\/index.aspx?sid=1548&amp;gid=2&amp;pgid=1731&amp;content_id=1736\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">  <strong>LUC.edu\/libraries\/terrylecture<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, please contact Nicole Brodsky at 773.508.2616.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.lib.luc.edu\/friends\/files\/2014\/02\/Karen-Wilkin-cropped1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.lib.luc.edu\/friends\/files\/2014\/02\/Karen-Wilkin-cropped1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Karen Wilkin cropped1\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-558\" \/><\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.lib.luc.edu\/friends\/files\/2014\/02\/Elegant-Enigmas-cover.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.lib.luc.edu\/friends\/files\/2014\/02\/Elegant-Enigmas-cover-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Elegant Enigmas cover\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-532\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.lib.luc.edu\/friends\/files\/2014\/02\/bird-and-man-with-copy-info.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.lib.luc.edu\/friends\/files\/2014\/02\/bird-and-man-with-copy-info-216x300.jpg\" alt=\"bird and man with copy info\" width=\"216\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px;\u201d size-medium wp-image-529\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/friends\/files\/2014\/02\/bird-and-man-with-copy-info-216x300.jpg 216w, https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/friends\/files\/2014\/02\/bird-and-man-with-copy-info.jpg 525w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">THIRD ANNUAL GREGORY AND ROSALIND TERRY LECTURE<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Featuring <strong><br \/>\nKaren Wilkin<\/strong>, author of<br \/>\n<em><strong>Elegant Enigmas: The Art of Edward Gorey<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Wednesday, April 9<br \/>\n7 PM<br \/>\nCrown Center Auditorium<br \/>\nLake Shore Campus<br \/>\nLoyola University Chicago<br \/>\n1001-25 W. Loyola Avenue<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Please join the Loyola University Chicago Libraries for one of the highlight events of the Edward Gorey exhibition season as we welcome writer, independent curator, and critic specializing in 20th century modernism, Karen Wilkin. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5858,6851,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518"}],"version-history":[{"count":50,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2037,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions\/2037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}