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Alexander Alberro
Virginia Bloedel Wright Associate Professor of Art History, Barnard
Modern and contemporary Art; History of Photography

Ph.D., Northwestern, 1996

Biography
Alexander Alberro's courses and graduate advising is in the area of modern and contemporary European, U.S., and Latin American art, as well as in the history of photography. His essays on modern and contemporary art have appeared in a wide variety of journals and exhibition catalogues. He is also the author of Conceptual Art and the Politics of Publicity (2003), and has edited a number of books on contemporary art for MIT Press and the
University of California Press, including Institutional Critique: An Anthology of Artists Writings; Art After Conceptual Art; Museum Fictions; Recording Conceptual Art; Two-Way Mirror Power; and Conceptual Art: A Critical Anthology. Alberro is currently completing book-length study of the emergence and development of abstract art in Latin America and is beginning to work on a volume that explores new forms of art and spectatorship that have crystallized in the past two decades.



Contact Information
301A Barnard
Telephone: (212) 854-0311
E-mail: aalberro@barnard.edu
Office Hours: Thursdays, 2:00-4:00





Rcent Publications

Institutional Critique: An Anthology of Artists' Writings, co-edited with Blake Stimson MIT Press, 2009

Art after Conceptual Art, co-edited with Sabeth Buchmann, MIT Press, 2006. German language version published by General Foundation, 2006

Museum Highlights: The Collected Writings of Andrea Fraser, edited, MIT Press, 2006

Conceptual Art and the Politics of Publicity, MIT Press, 2004

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