Bodies & Souls: Art Happens in Community

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Bodies & Souls: Art Happens in Community - Hardcover

Bodies & Souls: Art Happens in Community - Hardcover

by Robert Cozzolino , William R. Valerio , Robert E. Kohler
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by Robert Cozzolino (Author), William R. Valerio (Author), Robert E. Kohler (Author)

Author Biography

Robert Cozzolino (Author)
Robert Cozzolino is a Minneapolis-based independent curator, art historian, and critic who approaches curation collaboratively, in partnership with artists, colleagues, and broad communities. "Starting where you are" is critical to his practice--knowing the immediate context and deeper history of the place in which he works. Dr. Cozzolino is drawn to artists who express the full range of human experience, especially those who aspire to visually express the intangible. Although he has worked on topics from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, he often collaborates with contemporary artists in examining history. He considers himself a curator of fluid time, not bound by the labels and bins imposed on the field. Among his more than forty exhibitions are Supernatural America: The Paranormal in American Art (2021-22), World War I and American Art (2016-17), Peter Blume: Nature and Metamorphosis (2014-15), David Lynch: The Unified Field (2014), and With Friends: Six Magic Realists, 1940-1965 (2005).

William R. Valerio (Author)
William R. Valerio is the Patricia Van Burgh Allison Director and CEO of Woodmere in Philadelphia. Over the last fifteen years, he has led a transformative revitalization of the institution's community engagement, collections, financial health, and cultural relevance. As the lead visionary behind the museum's exhibitions, he has deepened the scholarship and celebration of the art and artists of Philadelphia, through such major exhibitions as A Grand Vision: Violet Oakley and the American Renaissance (2017), We Speak: Black Artists in Philadelphia, 1920s-1970s (2015), and Schofield: International Impressionist (2014). Valerio holds a PhD in art history from Yale, an MBA from Wharton, an MA in art history from the University of Pennsylvania, and a BA cum laude from Williams College.

Robert E. Kohler (Author)
Robert E. Kohler trained as a chemist but has long been informally devoted to books and creative literature. A happy accident in midlife led him to unite these separate threads in history of science and environmental history, fields he pursued as a scholar and teacher at the University of Pennsylvania from 1973 to his retirement in 2006. His passion for collecting contemporary art, which he shared with his wife, Frances, began as a secondary pursuit but developed into a mid- to late-life vocation and primary life's work. Frances was another creative shapeshifter: educated in classics and comparative literature, she discovered a gift and calling in history of science, as managing editor of the premier journal in the couple's shared field.
Number of Pages: 216
Dimensions: 0.9 x 12.1 x 9.7 IN
Publication Date: May 26, 2026
ISBN9798993128016
Author Robert Cozzolino , William R. Valerio , Robert E. Kohler
PublisherUniversity of Pennsylvania Press
GenreArts and History
FormatHardcover
PublishedMay 2026
LanguageENG- English
Pages216
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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