David Craven, distinguished professor of art history at UNM, was selected by faculty in the Department of Art & Art History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill to give the annual McLeod & Mildred Riggins Lecture in Art History. Craven will present a lecture titled, “A Trans-Atlantic Dialogue in the Arts: Fri(e)da Kahlo, Hannah Höch, and Tina Modotti,” on Monday, Nov. 2.
Photo: David Craven
A special endowed lectureship, the Riggins Lecture is awarded annually to a noteworthy scholar who has made a major contribution to the discipline of art history. Previous speakers have included Abigail Solomon-Godeau, Patricia Mathews and José Esteban Muñoz.
Craven has written 10 books and catalogues, along with more than 140 articles and review essays, which have appeared in leading publications of over 20 countries and been translated into more than a dozen languages. Among his more widely known publications are “Mythmaking in the McCarthy Period,” “Diego Rivera as Epic Modernist,” “Abstract Expressionism as Cultural Critique” and “Art and Revolution in Latin America, 1910-1990” – a book praised by Ernesto Cardenal, Minister of Culture in Nicaragua during the 1980s. Craven co-edited and introduced “Dialectical Conversions: The Art Criticism of Donald Kuspit,” forthcoming from Liverpool University Press in 2010.
Craven was awarded a Medal of Excellence from the State of New York in 1991 and was the 2007 Rudolf Arnheim Professor of Art History at Humboldt University in Berlin. He has won more than fifteen major grants and fellowships from such agencies as the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service), National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, American Council of Learned Societies, New York Council for the Humanities, Rockefeller Foundation, Ministry of Culture in Spain, and Instituto Nacional de Bellas Arte in Mexico.
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