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David L. Craven
author, art historian, activist

Distinguished Professor of Art History
Department of Art & Art History
University of New Mexico

Dr. Craven is currently Distinquished Professor of Art History at the University of New Mexico where he has been a member of the Interdisciplinary Board of the Latin American Institute. In 2007 he was the Rudolf Arnheim Professor of Art History at Humbolt University in Berlin.

He is an expert in Critical Theory, as well as in 19th and 20th c. art and culture from Latin America, the USA, and Europe.

He has authored six books, a catalog essay for the Tate Gallery (1992), another for the Museo Antiguo Colegio San Ildefonso in Mexico City (2005), and guest edited a special issue of the Oxford Art Journal (1994).

In addition, he has written over 100 articles and reviews that have been translated into 15 different languages and have appeared in the leading publications of 25 different countries throughout Latin America and Europe, and including the United States and Canada. At present, he is on the international advisory board of Estrago and Third Text.

David Craven

David L. Craven, Distinguished Professor of Art History at the University of New Mexico (USA), has degrees in Art History from Vanderbilt University (1974) and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where he received his Ph.D. in 1979 and wrote his dissertation under Prof. Donald Kuspit, a student of T.W. Adorno.

Since 1993, he has been a Professor of Art History at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, where he is also associated with the Latin American Institute. In addition, he has been a Lecturer at Duke University (1978), a Visiting Fellow at Princeton University (1980), and a Professor at the State University of New York, Cortland (1978-93). In 1991, he won the Excellence Award from the State of New York and the U.U.P. Faculty Union, for his scholarly publications and distinguished teaching and in 2003 he won a Faculty Acknowledgement Award at UNM.

He has been a Visiting Lecturer at Trinity College, Dublin (1985), and Guest Lecturer at several institutions in the United Kingdom (1991) including, Cambridge University, the University of Essex, and the University of East Anglia - as well as in Nicaragua (1990) at the Universidad de Centroamérica and the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas. In addition, he has been a Visiting Professor at four different institutions: Universität Bremen (1988), the University of Leeds (1991), and the Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas of U.N.A.M., Mexico City (1995) and Humboldt Universität zu Berlin (2007). In 1999, he was elected a Fellow of the Collegium Budapest in Hungary. In 2003, he was Scholar-in-Residence at the University of Texas, Austin.

He has written catalog essays for several museums both in the USA and abroad. These include Mythmaking in the McCarthy Period for the Tate Gallery in England (1992); an essay for the Norman Lewis exhibition at the Studio Museum in Harlem, NY (1998); an essay for the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía of Madrid (1999), and an essay for the Museo Antiguo Colegio San IIdefonso in Mexico City (2005).

Craven has guest edited a special issue of the Oxford Art Journal (1994) on Meyer Schapiro, published numerous articles that have appeared in the leading journals of 25 different countries throughout Europe and the Americas, and written six books. He also has written entries for the Canadian Encyclopedia (1985), The Dictionary of Art (1996), and the Encyclopedia of Latin American Art (1999).

David Craven
author, art historian, activist

Review: "John Berger's Art Criticism," Telos, Vol. 13 (Winter 1980/81): 209-220.

"Hans Haackes 'Schlaue Verwicklung'," Kritische Berichte, Vol. 10 (1981):29-39.

Art of the New Nicaragua (Ithaca: New York Council for the Hunmanities, 1983).20pp. [Co-authored with Dr. John Ryder of SUNY--Albany]

"Richard Serra and the Phenomenology of Perception," Arts Magazine, Vol. 60 (March 1986):49-51.

The New Concept of Art and Popular Culture in Nicaragua Since the Revolution of 1979 (Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press. 1989), 405pp.

"Armando Morales:clásico del reálismo mágico," Nuevo Amanecer Cultural, Año 11 (September 1990):1-2.

"Formative Art and Social Transformation," XXVIIe Congrès International d'histoire de l'Art en 1989, Vol. III (Strasbourg: Société Alsacienne, 1992):207-220.

"Abstract Expressionism and Third World Art: A Post-Colonial Approach to 'American Art'," Oxford Art Journal, Vol 14 (1991):44-66.

Mythmaking: Abstract Expressionism from the United States (Liverpool: Tate Gallery, 1992).

"Meyer Schapiro, Karl Korsch, and the Emergence of Critical Theory," Oxford Art Journal, No. 17 (Spring 1994):42-54. (Guest Editor of Issue: David Craven.)

"The Latin American Origins of 'Alternative Modernism'" Third Text, No. 36 (Fall 1996):29-44.

Poetics and Politics in the Art of Rudolf Baranik (Atlantic Highlands, NJ:Humanities Press, 1996),211 pp.

Diego Rivera as Epic Modernist (Boston:G.K. Hall, 1997), 251 pp.

"Interview with Meyer Schapiro and Lillian Milgram Schapiro: 1992-1995," Res:Journal of Anthropology and Aesthetics (Harvard University), No. 31 Spring 1997):159-168.

"Lucy Lippard's 'Sniper's Nest' El Palacio (Santa Fe, Vol. 103, Summer 1998):40-53.

Abstract Expressionism as Cultural Critique: Dissent in the McCarthy Period (Cambridge University Press, 1999), 250pp.

"Artistas internationales, Públicas nacionales, provinciales," in Á Rebours: La Rebelión Informalista, 1939-1968 (Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, July 1999).

Art and Revolution in Latin America, 1910-1990 (Yale University Press, 2002).

The Third Text Reader, ed. Rasheed Araeen, et. al. (London: Continuum, 2002): 24-35. Post-Colonial Modernism from Latin America.

XXV Cologuio Internacional de Historia del Arte en 2001 (Cuidad Universitaria: Instituto de Investigaciones Esteticas, 2004). Essay on the TGP & Walter Benjamin.

Cosmopolitan Modernisms,ed. Kobena Mercer (Cambridge, MA & London: MIT Press and International Institute of Visual Arts, 2005): 146-167. Essay on C.L.R. James.

Pablo O'Higgins Voz de lucha y de arte, ed., Leticia López Orozco (Mexico City: Museo Colegio San Ildefonso, 2005): 129-140.