ART HISTORY FACULTY

 

Florencia Bazzano-Nelson
Office: 303 Woldenberg Art Bldg
Phone: (504) 865-5327
email: fbazzano@tulane.edu

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Ph.D., University of New Mexico, 2000

Areas of interest
My main area of research is the history of art criticism and theory from and about Latin America, especially the writings of the controversial Argentine Colombian art critic Marta Traba and the development of her practice in reference to Colombia and Latin America from the postwar period to the 1970s. Another important area of concern in my research has been the work of Latin American and Latino contemporary artists, in particular Argentine-born artist Liliana Porter, who has been active in New York since the 1960s. A third historical period that has been of particular interest in my teaching are the avant-garde movements of the 1920s in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico, which I have addressed in my classes and seminars from a comparative, interdisciplinary perspective.

Current projects
My book Liliana Porter and the Art of Simulation will be published by Ashgate early next year. At present I am on sabbatical working on a book-length study on Marta Traba.

Courses recently taught
Art of Latin America I: 1900-1950s
Art of Latin America II: 1950s-2000
19th- and 20th-Century Art of Latin America
Latin American Artists in the United States (seminar)
Latin American Avant-Gardes of the 1920s: Argentina, Brazil, Mexico (seminar)