Concise, critical reviews of books, exhibitions, and projects in all areas and periods of art history and visual studies

Latin American/Caribbean Art
Dissertations Completed by Subject, 2014

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Bonilla-Merchav, Lauran, “Manuel de la Cruz Gonzalez: Transnationalism and the Development of Modern Art in Costa Rica” (CUNY, A. Indych-Lopez)

Brodbeck, Katherine, “Charting the Course of Revolution: Artur Barrio and Artistic Education and Exchange in Brazil (1967–1971)” (IFA/NYU, E. Sullivan)

Caragol, Taina, “Boom and Dust: The Rise of Latin American and Latino Art in New York Exhibition Spaces and the Auction House Market, 1970s–1980s” (CUNY, K. Manthorne)

Cornejo, Kency, “Visual Disobedience: The Geopolitics of Experimental Art in Central America, 1990–present” (Duke, K. Stiles, E. Gabara)

Drien, Marcela, “The Arts in the Showcase: Santiago’s Exposición Internacional of 1875” (Stony Brook University, M. Bogart)

Enriquez, Mary Schneider, “Material Witness: Doris Salcedo’s Practice as an Address on Political Violence through Materiality” (Harvard, T. Cummins)

Hamilton, Andrew, “Scale and the Incas” (Harvard, T. Cummins)

Laughlin, Eleanor, “Posed and Deposed: Propaganda and Resistance in Carte-de-visite Photographs of Maximilian von Habsburg during Mexico’s Second Empire (1864–67)” (Florida, M. Hyde, M. Stanfield-Mazzi)

Panbehchi, Michael, “The Triumphs of Alexander Farnese: A Contextual Analysis of the Series of Painting in Santiago, Chile” (Virginia Commonwealth, M. Schreffler)

Rarey, Matthew Francis, “Revolting Visions: Contesting Aesthetics in Brazil’s Era of Slave Rebellion” (Wisconsin, Madison, J. Casid)

Zinsli, Beth A., “Fragments along the Archipelago: Photography of the Contemporary Spanish Caribbean and Its Diasporas” (Wisconsin, Madison, J. Casid)