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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

George Flaherty, “Golden Halo, Cosmic Rays: Félix Candela, the ’68 Movement, and Techno-Politics in Atomic Mexico,” in Félix Candela from Mexico City to Chicago: Rise and Fall of Experimentation in Concrete, edited by Alexander Eisenschmidt (Barcelona: Actar, 2024), 118-133


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)

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  • Permanent Seminar (Sept. 9, 12pm): Talita Trizoli, “Mapping the Audacious: Feminist and Women-Only Exhibitions in Brazil” September 25, 2025
  • Permanent Seminar (Apr. 10, 2pm): Viewing of Latinx materials with Mari Carmen Ramírez at the Benson Collection March 23, 2025
  • (Apr. 9-10) CLAVIS welcomes curator Mari Carmen Ramírez for lecture, seminar, and student meetings March 21, 2025

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