Print Study Day Presented by The Metropolitan Museum of Art: “Graphic Cultures of Latin America”

"Print Study Day Presented by The Metropolitan Museum of Art: 'Graphic Cultures of Latin America'"
October 17, 2024

The importance of prints in the visual culture of the Americas from the time of colonization to the present day is a subject of increasing scholarly interest. The three talks in this webinar will explore how prints from the sixteenth through to the twentieth centuries were so important for creating networks of meaning within Latin American culture and society.

Print Study Day is organized annually by the Department of Drawings and Prints at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in association with the IFPDA. Following the three talks, Nadine Orenstein, Drue Heinz Curator in Charge, Department of Drawings and Prints, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, will moderate a discussion and Q&A.

Program:
"'docenas de paperless de devocion’ recovering the taste for European prints in colonial Latin America"

Stephanie Porras is Professor of Art History at Tulane University and outgoing Reviews Editor for The Art Bulletin. Her most recent book, The First Viral Images: Maerten de Vos, Antwerp print and the early modern globe was published in 2023; She is also the author of Pieter Bruegel’s Historical Imagination (2016) and The Art of the Northern Renaissance: Courts, Commerce, Devotion (2018).

"Print Cultures of Mexico 1910–2000"

Edward J. Sullivan is the Helen Gould Shepard Professor in the History of Art at New York University. He is the author of more than thirty books and exhibition catalogues in the fields of art of the Spanish and Portuguese-speaking nations from the seventeenth century until the present. His most recent book Latino New York 1970–2001: Art & Experience will be published by Yale University Press next year.

"Latin American Prints at the Intersection of Craft and Conceptualism"

Harper Montgomery has written for The Art Bulletin, Art Journal, and the Brooklyn Rail; and has organized exhibitions on art of the nineteenth-century, the twentieth-century, and the present for the galleries of Hunter College. She is the author of The Mobility of Modernism: Art and Criticism in 1920s Latin America (University of Texas Press, 2017), which won the Arvey Foundation Book Award for distinguished scholarship on Latin American Art, and co-editor of Beyond the Aesthetic and the Anti-Aesthetic (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013). Her current research has been supported by a senior Dedalus Fellowship and concerns the ascent of artesanía within contemporary art spaces in Latin America. She is a Professor of Art History at Hunter College and the Director of the Hunter College Art Galleries.

Q&A moderated by Nadine Orenstein, Drue Heinz Curator in Charge, Department of Drawings and Prints, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Introduction by David Tunick, President, IFPDA.

This program was presented by The Metropolitan Museum of Art for Print Month 2024, hosted by the IFPDA.

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