Visual Arts and Politics in Latin America: the 20s/30s and the 60s, a lecture with slides
by Alejandro Anreus, PhD, Professor of Art History and Latin American Studies, William Paterson University
- Thursday, October 25, 2007 @ 7:15pm
- Harriman Hall 111 Film Theatre
- sponsored by the Global Initiative, SUNY Orange
Regarding the era of the the 1920s/1930s, Dr. Alejandro Anreus’ lecture with slides presentation will include
- The Mexican Revolution, Nationalism, Socialism
- The Mexican muralists: Rivera, Orozco, and Siqueiros
- Prints for the People: Leopoldo Mendez
- The Politics of the Personal: Frida Kahlo
- Argentina
- The New Realism: Antonio Berni
- Cuba
- Social Visions: Carlos Enríquez and Marcelo Pogolotti
Concerning the timeframe of the 1960s, Dr. Anreus’ presentation will incorporate examples of
- Argentina
- Neo-figurative Artists
- Venezuela
- The Carnival of Jacobo Borges
- Cuba
- Raúl Martínez Revolutionary Pop
- The Monsters of Antonia Eiriz
- Military Dictatorships and The Cuban Revolution
This lecture is free and open to the public and is sponsored in part by the Global Initiative, SUNY Orange
Alejandro Anreus
Born in Havana, Cuba, Alejandro Anreus obtained his B.A. in Art History from Kean College, Union, NJ, and his M.A. in Art History from the Graduate Center, C.U.N.Y., NY, NY. (Thesis: Bernini's Vision of Santa Teresa of Avila). He holds a Ph.D. in Art History, Graduate Center, C.U.N.Y., NY, NY. (Dissertation: Orozco in Gringoland, The Years in New York). At the Montclair Art Museum, he was Assistant Curator, 1986-89; Associate Curator, 1989-90; and Curator of Collections and Exhibitions, 1991-93. Then he became Curator of Jersey City Museum, 1993-2001.
His most recent publications are Ben Shahn and The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti (Jersey City Museum and Rutgers University Press, 2001), Orozco in Gringoland: The Years in New York (University of New Mexico Press, 2001), and The Social and The Real; Political Art of the 1930s in the Western Hemisphere (Penn State Press, 2006), which he co-edited with Diana L. Linden and Jonathan Weinberg. His articles have appeared in Art Journal, Third Text, Art Nexus and Encuentro de la Cultura Cubana.
Since 2003 Prof. Anreus has been part of the national advisory board of the "A Ver" series of monographs. This is the first series of monographs focused on living Latino artists. This multi-volume project is funded by the Getty and Rockefeller Foundations and is based at the Chicano Studies Department at UCLA.
Prof. Anreus is currently doing research on two projects; one on exile imagery in the work of Cuban American artists, the other a multi-author critical history of Mexican Mural painting that he is co-editing with Robin Adèle Greeley (University of Connecticut) and Leonard Folgarait (Vanderbilt University).
He has taught courses on the following subjects: Modern Art I, II, Neo-classic and Romantic Art, History of Photography, Modern Art of Latin America, American Art, Graduate Seminar in Modernism.
Teaching Experience:
- 2001- Associate Professor of Art History/Latin American Studies and Coordinator of Graduate Art Program (2003-5), William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ
- 1999-2000 Critic-in-Residence, Rutgers Center for Innovative Printmaking and Paper & Latino Center for Art and Culture, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
- 1998 Adjunct Professor of Art History, Kean University, Union, NJ
- 1997 Adjunct Professor of Art History, Graduate Program in Museum Professions, Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ
- 1989-2000 Adjunct Professor of Art History, New Jersey City University, Jersey City, NJ
- 1989-90 Minority Scholar in Residence, Bloomfield College, Bloomfield, NJ
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