Modernizing Mexico: The Photographic Difference

Nov 12 2009 - 6:00pm Kemper Building Room 103

artarch@artsci.wustl.edu

Roberto Tejada is an art historian, curator, and associate professor of Modern Mexican, Chicano, and Contemporary U.S. Latino Art History at the University of Texas at Austin. He is also a co-director of The Center for Latin American Visual Studies (CLAVIS), a collaboration between the University of Texas Department of Art and Art History and the Blanton Museum of Art, which seeks to advance the understanding of modern and contemporary art between the Americas. A widely published poet and literary translator, he is the author of Mirrors for Gold, as well as the founder and co-editor of Mandorla: New Writing from the Americas. His latest book is National Camera: Photography and Mexico’s Image Environment which was released by the University of Minnesota Press in 2009.