Modernisms: Concepts, Contexts, and Circulation
16–24 July 2016, São Paulo
PROGRAM BROCHURE [pdf download]
WORKSHOP PROGRAM [pdf download]
Participants & Projects
| Alvarez, Mariola (Colby College Maine) |
Transnational Brazil and Modern Calligraphic Abstraction |
| Bachmann, Pauline (Freie Universität Berlin) |
Constructivism as Construction: Brazilian Neoconcretism between Language and Object |
| Baader, Hannah (KHI Florenz/Max-Planck-Institut; Art Histories, Berlin) |
Steering Group |
| Bader, Lena (DFK Paris) |
Steering Group |
| Barriendos, Joaquín (Columbia University) |
Geopolitics of Global Art: The Reinvention of Latin America as a Geoaesthetic Region |
| Baumgarten, Jens (Unifesp, São Paulo) |
Steering Group |
| Bravo, Monica (Brown University) |
Picturing Greater America: U.S. Modernist Photography and the Mexican Cultural Renaissance, 1920-45 |
| Cruz Porchini, Dafne (El Colegio de México) |
Modern and Transnational Cultural Artistic Networks between Mexico and Europe (1900–1930): Case Studies |
| Cytlak, Katarzyna (CONICET, University of San Martín, Argentina) |
Utopia and Resistance: Art during the Sixties and Seventies. Dialogues between Argentina and Eastern Europe |
| Drosos, Nikolas (Columbia University) |
A Tale of Two (University) Cities: The Modernist Campuses of Mexico City and Caracas in the Imaginary of Socialist Eastern Europe |
| Dûfrene, Thierry (Université Paris Quest Nanterre La Défense) |
Steering Group |
| Flores, Patrick (University of the Philippines, Manila) |
Steering Group |
| Gonçalves Magalhães, Ana (MAC-USP, São Paulo, USP) | Steering Group |
| Handberg, Kristian (University of Copenhagen and Louisiana Museum of Modern Art) | Multiple Modernities: World Images and Dreamworlds in Art and Culture, 1946-1972 |
| Karp Lugo, Laura (University of Tours) |
A Transnational History of Latin American Art in the Postcolonial Era |
| Kern, Margit (Universität Hamburg) |
Steering Group |
| Kirchner, Thomas (DFK Paris) |
Steering Group |
| Lafont, Anne (Institut national d’histoire de l’art, Paris, INHA) |
Steering Group |
| Lapin Dardashti, Abigail (CUNY Graduate Center) | Re-Constructing Blackness in Brazil: Politics, Race, and Modernity in Brazilian Art and Architecture, 1950s-1980s |
| Maroja, Camila (Brown University) |
The First Mercosul Biennial: Showcasing an Abstract and Political Latin America |
| Moura, Sabrina (University of Campinas) |
Decenterings and Regionalisms: An Intercrossed History of the Havana and Dakar Biennials |
| Oesterreich, Miriam (Technische Universität Darmstadt) |
On Mexican Artistic Indigenism: An Anachronistic Conception of Modernity |
| Rocco, Renata (University of São Paulo) |
The Presence of Danilo di Prete (Pisa, 1911-São Paulo, 1985) in Brazil, 1940-1970 |
| Santa Olalla, Pablo (Universidad de Barcelona) |
Relational Networks between Conceptualisms: Spain, Latin America, United States, 1968-1984 |
| Siegert, Nadine (Universität Bayreuth) |
Utopian Modernism: The Aesthetics of Socialism in Africa |
| Siracusano, Gabriela (Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero, UNTREF, Buenos Aires) |
Steering Group |
| Vallego, Rachel (University of São Paulo) |
The Print Donation from the Central Bank of Brazil to the Museum of Contemporary Art of the University of São Paulo |
| Venturi, Riccardo (Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art, Paris) |
Porosity as Modernism. A Transatlantic View on Post-war Italian Visual Practices |
| Wagen-Magnon, Samuel (L’Université de Lausanne) | The “Tree of Modern Art” as Prime Object or Replication? Miguel Covarrubias between Art History and Anthropology |
| Wechsler, Diana (Museo de la Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero, UNTREF, Buenos Aires) |
Steering Group |
| Wolf, Caroline “Olivia” (Rice University) |
Emigrados de lejanas regiones”: The Art and Architectural Patronage of Arab and Armenian Diaspora Communities in the Argentine Capital, 1910-1955 |
