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Alexander Alberro
Virginia Bloedel Wright '51 Associate Professor of Art History
Alexander Alberro is the Virginia Bloedel Wright '51 Associate Professor of Art History. His areas of specialization are modern and contemporary European, U.S., and Latin American art, as well as in the history of photography. Before joining Barnard's faculty in 2008, he taught at the University of Florida. He has been the recipient of a Howard Foundation fellowship, several University of Florida Scholarship Enhancement Awards, and a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship.
He is the author of Conceptual Art and the Politics of Publicity, and the editor of a number of books, including Institutional Critique: An Anthology of Artists’ Writings; Art After Conceptual Art; Two-Way Mirror Power; and Conceptual Art: A Critical Anthology. His essays on contemporary art have appeared in a wide variety of journals and exhibition catalogues. Alberro is completing book-length study of the emergence and development of abstract art in Latin America and is beginning to work on a volume titled Periodizing Contemporary Art, which explores new forms of art and spectatorship that have crystallized in the past two decades.
At Barnard he teaches the history of modern and contemporary art, as well as the history of photography.
Selected Publications
Periodizing Contemporary Art (in progress; advance contract with MIT Press).
Abstraction in Reverse: Concrete Art and its Legacies in Latin America (in progress).
Institutional Critique: An Anthology of Artists’ Writings, co-edited with Blake Stimson (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, forthcoming in 2009).
“Periodising Contemporary Art,” in Crossing Cultures: Conflict, Migration, Convergence, Proceedings of the 32nd Congress of the International Committee for the History of Art, ed. Jaynie Anderson (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2009), 961-965.
“Contemporary Art, Publicity, and the Legacy of the Artistic Avant-Garde,” Texte zur Kunst (June 2009), 40-44, 92-94 (with German translation).
“Interview with Carlos Cruz-Diez,” Carlos Cruz-Diez, ed. Estrellita Brodsky and Isabella Villanueva (New York: Americas Society, 2009), 52-69.
“The Gap Between Film and Installation Art,” Art and the Moving Image: A Critical Reader, ed. Tanya Leighton (London: Tate Publishing/Afterall, 2008), 423-429.
Art After Conceptual Art, co-edited with Sabeth Buchmann (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2006). German language volume published by Vienna: Generali Foundation, 2006.
212.854.0311
aalberro@barnard.edu
EDUCATION:
B.A., M.A., University of British Columbia
Ph.D., Northwestern University
SPECIALIZATIONS:
Modern and contemporary European, U.S., and Latin American art
The history of photography