American Art Today: New Directions

Catalog of an exhibition held at the Art Museum at Florida International University. Essay by Eleanor Heartney.

American Art Today: Surface Tension

Catalog of an exhibition held at the Art Museum at Florida International University. Essay by Stephen Westfall ; curated by Dahlia Morgan.

American Art Today: Clothing as Metaphor

Catalog of an exhibition held at the Art Museum at Florida International University. Essay by Kay Larson ; curated by Dahlia Morgan.

American Art Today: Heads Only

Catalog of an exhibition held at the Art Museum at Florida International University. Essay by Carol Damian; curated by Dahlia Morgan.

American Art Today: Night Paintings

Catalog of an exhibition held at the Art Museum at Florida International University. Essay by Barbara Dayer Gallati ; curated by Dahlia Morgan.

Ecfrasis: Escritura y pintura en el costumbrismo argentino

This dissertation examines the discursive practice of Argentine costumbrista texts from a novel perspective. In (re)reading the works of selected prominent writers from the late colonial period to the end of the Nineteenth Century, including those of Alonso Carrió de la Vandera, Emeric Essex Vidal, León Pallière, Lucio Vicente López, Lucio V. Mansilla, and Pastor Obligado we focus on the presence of ekphrastic enunciations with a view toward linking the plastic, painterly dimensions of the prose to parallel representations by artists of the same period. Thus the costumbristas are studied in tandem with the watercolors, oil paintings and lithographic compositions of artists such as Carlos Enrique Pellegrim, César Hipólito Bacle, Raymond Monvoisin and Hipólito Moulin. The resulting comparative study of the two arts---the verbal and the pictorial---illustrates the notion described by W. J. T. Mitchell that a literary text may well "represent a work of visual or graphic art." And thus, it provides us with visual, spatial motifs that enhance its powers of representation. ^ In developing our focus on ekphrastic representations we have followed the theoretic studies of Murray Krieger, Jean H. Hagstrum, James Hefferman, John Hollander, W. J. T. Mitchell, Johann Gottfried Herder, and Wendy Steiner among others, all of whom in various ways take their cue from Horace's Ut pictura poesis and the notion that poetry, that is literary discourse, can be likened to a panting and that in both arts there is a refractive quality that makes literature a spoken vehicle of expression and painting a silent, complementary voice. ^ In studying the literary and plastic discourses comparatively what becomes evident is that they share cultural and ideological concerns that center around the notion of self-definition, national identity, and the relation of the individual to the incipient national community (Benedict Anderson). These concerns are highlighted via the depiction of customs, mores, dress, work habits, professions, and social classes. In late colonial literature and painting and especially in the Nineteenth Century, which constitutes the defining period of Argentine political independence, the confluence of the two disciplinary discourses addresses, and underscores the issues of socio-political empowerment in the new Argentine nation. ^

Latin Artist Panel Discussion

This flyer promotes the event "Latin Artist Panel Discussion" hosted by the Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum.

Tracing Antilles: History, Culture, and Art in the Work of Humberto Castro

This flyer promotes the event "Tracing Antilles: History, Culture, and Art in the Work of Humberto Castro" cosponsored by the Cuban Research Institute and the Frost Art Museum.

The Cuban Legacy in Miami: A Footprint in Permanent Public, Art Lecture by Jorge A. Hernández

This flyer promotes the event "The Cuban Legacy in Miami: A Footprint in Permanent Public, Art Lecture by Jorge A. Hernández", cosponsored by the Frost Art Museum at FIU.