“Re-Figuring Visual Culture in Europe and Latin America”
Dana Leibsohn and Sura Levine
Tuesday, 16 October at 5.30 PM in Herter 601

Dana Leibsohn dleibsoh@email.smith.edu, associate professor of art at Smith College received a B.A. from Bryn Mawr College, a M.A. from the University of Colorado, and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles. She teaches courses on Latin American, American Indian, and African visual culture. She is active in the Latin American and Latino/a Studies program at Smith and the Five College program, Crossroads in the Study of the Americas. Her research and publications focus on indigenous visual culture in colonial Latin America, in particular on maps and modes of literacy. She has won grants from the J. Paul Getty Trust and the National Gallery of Art. Currently, she holds a collaborative grant from the NEH to develop a multi-media project entitled, Vistas: Colonial Latin American Visual Culture: 1520-1820.

Sura Levine slevine@hampshire.edu, associate professor of art history at Hampshire College, holds a B.A. from the University of Michigan, an M.A. and Ph.D. in art history from the University of Chicago. She is a specialist in the social history of 19th- and 20th-century European and American art with particular interest in representations of class and gender. She has published essays and catalogue entries for museum exhibitions and scholarly journals both in the United States and Europe. These include "Politics and the Graphic Art of the Belgian Avant-Garde," "Belgian Art Nouveau Sculpture," "Print Culture in the Age of the French Revolution," "Constantin Meunier: A Life of Labor," and "Constantin Meunier's Monument au travail." At present, she is working on two book projects. One is focused on the 20th Convoy, a story of rescue during the Holocaust in Belgium and the other, on Nobility and the Working Class: Monuments to Labor in Belgium and France at the Turn of the Century.

 

Copies of all readings have been placed on reserve on the third floor of the DuBois Library under COMPLIT 595A: Seminar–Cultural Studies.

Carolyn Dean and Dana Leibsohn, “Hybridity and Its Discontents: Considering Visual Culture in Colonial Spanish America,” Colonial Latin American Review (in press).

Dana Leibsohn, “Mapping after the Letter: Graphology and Indigenous Cartography in New Spain,” in The Language of Encounter in the Americas, 1492–1800, ed. Edward G. Gray and Norman Fiering (NYC, London: Berghahn, 2000): 119–151.

Sura Levine, "Politics and the Graphic Arts of the Belgian Avant-Garde," in Les XX and the Belgian Avant-Garde: Prints, Drawings, and Books ca. 1890, ed. Stephen H. Goddard (Lawrence, USA: University of Kansas/Spencer Art Museum, 1992): 55–74 plus plates and catalogue entries.

This event is sponsored by Department of Comparative Literature-UMass, Department of French and Italian Studies-UMass, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures-UMass, Interdepartmental Program in Film Studies-UMass, Department of Communication-UMass, Department of English and Comparative Literature-Smith, Department of English-UMass, Film Studies Program-Mt. Holyoke, Department of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies-UMass, Department of Legal Studies-UMass, and Program in Social Thought and Political Economy (STPEC)-UMass.

For further information, please contact Anita Mannur, Beverly Weber, Craig Sinclair, and Dale Hudson at opdics@yahoo.com or visit our web site at www.umass.edu/complit/ogscl/culturalstudies/