David Craven, distinguished professor in art history, has been named chair of the University of New Mexico Department of Art and Art History. He has been a visiting professor at several universities internationally, including Leeds University, the National Autonomous University of Mexico and Humboldt University in Berlin.
Photo: David Craven
In addition, he has given guest lectures in more than 100 universities both here and abroad, including most recently Cambridge University, the University of Edinburgh and the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil.
Craven has written 10 books and catalogues for major art museums and more than 150 articles and review essays, which have appeared in the leading publications of over two dozen different countries and been translated into more than a dozen languages.
Among his more well-known publications are "Mythmaking in the McCarthy Period," "Abstract Expressionism as Cultural Critique" and "Art and Revolution in Latin America, 1910-1990," which has been singled out for praise by Ernesto Cardenal, the Minister of Culture in Nicaragua during the 1980s. Craven co-edited and introduced "Dialectical Conversions: The Art Criticism of Donald Kuspit," which is forthcoming through Liverpool University Press in 2010.
Craven was awarded a Medal Excellence from the State of New York for his scholarship and has won more than fifteen major grants and fellowships from such agencies as the National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, American Council of Learned Societies, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Ministry of Culture in Spain and Instituto Nacional de Bellas Arte in Mexico City.
He has a doctorate from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
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