UT Shield

Center for Latin American Visual Studies | Department of Art and Art History | University of Texas at Austin

CLAVIS

Publications

Recent publications originating from CLAVIS research projects and by affiliated faculty:

cover of George Flaherty's book, Hotel Mexicocover of Adele Nelson's forthcoming book, Forming Abstraction

Cover for Social Fabric exhibition catalog

Maria Emilia Fernandez, Adele Nelson, and MacKenzie Stevens eds., Social Fabric: Art and Activism in Contemporary Brazil (Austin: The Visual Arts Center / Tower Books, 2023)

George Flaherty, “‘Anxious Desires’: Hyperbolic Beautification and Affective Infrastructure under Mexico’s National Border Program, 1961–1971,” Social Text 40, no. 4 (December 2022), 69-95

Adele Nelson, Forming Abstraction: Art and Institutions in Postwar Brazil (Oakland: University of California Press, 2022)

George Flaherty and Adele Nelson, “Dialogues on Afterlives and Different Futures for Latin American Art,” Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture 4, no. 2 (April 2022)

George Flaherty and Adele Nelson, “Latin American Art by and for Whom? Questioning and Unresolvability at the Austin Symposium (1975),” Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture 4, no. 2 (April 2022)

Ana Magalhães and Adele Nelson, eds. “Arte abstrata no Brasil: novas perspectivas / Abstract Art in Brazil: New Perspectives,” MODOS: Revista de História da Arte 5, no. 1 (January–April 2021)

Against the Canon: Art, Feminism(s) and Activisms XVIII to XXI Centuries International Seminar Proceedings (Porto Alegre: Fundação Bienal do Mercosul, 2020)

Adele Nelson, “On Gender and Surface in Lygia Clark’s Early Abstraction,” Lygia Clark: Painting as an Experimental Field, 1948–1958, edited by Geaninne Gutiérrez-Guimarães. Bilbao: Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, 2020

George Flaherty, “Chicano Over Asphalt: Street Photography in Global Los Angeles,” in La Raza, edited by Colin Gunkel (Los Angeles: Chicano Studies Research Center, University of California / Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2020)

George Flaherty and Andrea Giunta eds., “Latin American Networks: Synchronicities, Contacts, and Divergences/Redes latinoamericanas: sincronicidades, contactos y divergencias,” Artelogie 15 (May 2020)

George Flaherty, “Border Architecture: Territories, Commons, and Breathing-Spaces,” in The Routledge Companion to Critical Approaches to Contemporary Architecture , edited by Swati Chattopadhyay and Jeremy White (New York: Routledge, 2019)

Andrea Giunta and George Flaherty eds., “Las exhibiciones como campos de comparación/Exhibitions as Fields of Comparison,” Caiana: Revista de Historia del Arte y Cultura Visual del Centro Argentino de Investigadores de Arte 11 (December 2017), 94-269

Andrea Giunta and George Flaherty, “Latin American Art History: An Historiographic Turn,” Art in Translation 9, no. 1 (2017), 121-142

George Flaherty, “All Eyes on Mexico: Revolution and Speculation,” in Mexico Modern: Art, Commerce, and Cultural Exchange, 1920-1945, edited by Donald Albrecht and Thomas Mellins (Austin: Harry Ransom Center / Munich: Hirmer Verlag, 2017)

George Flaherty, Hotel Mexico: Dwelling on the ’68 Movement. Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2016

Adele Nelson, “The Bauhaus in Brazil: Pedagogy and Practice.” ARTMargins 5, no. 2 (June 2016): 27–49

George Flaherty, “Responsive Eyes: Urban Logistics and Kinetic Environments for the 1968 Mexico City Olympics,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 73, no. 3 (2014)

George Flaherty, “Uncanny Tlatelolco, Uncomfortable Juxtapositions,” Defying Stability: Artistic Processes in Mexico, 1952-1967, ed. Rita Eder (Mexico: MUAC, 2014), 400-417

Adele Nelson, “Sensitive and Nondiscursive Things: Lygia Pape and the Reconception of Printmaking.” Art Journal 71, no. 3 (Fall 2012): 26–45

Adele Nelson, Jac Leirner in Conversation with/en conversación con Adele Nelson. New York and Caracas: Fundación Cisneros/Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, 2011. Portuguese edition: Jac Leirner conversa com Adele Nelson. São Paulo: Cosac Naify, 2013

George Flaherty, “Mario Pani’s Hospitality: Latin America through Arquitectura/México,” in Latin American Modern Architectures: Ambiguous Territories, edited by Patricio del Real and Helen Gyger (New York: Routledge, 2012)

Andrea Giunta, “A Short History of Latin American Art at UT Austin,” Portal: LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections Annual Review (2011)

×