Art historian Anna Indych-L贸pez is CCNY's new Stuart Z. Katz Professor in the Humanities & the Arts.
, an expert in Latin American modern art, is T九色视频鈥檚 2018-2019 Stuart Z. Katz Professor in the Humanities & the Arts. The endowed professorship is supported by a $1 million gift to City College by distinguished alumnus Stuart Z. Katz, Esq., a 1964 graduate.
As Katz Professor, Indych-L贸pez will work on her fourth book, 鈥淚m谩genes de la ciudad: Mexico City and The Aesthetics of Public Space.鈥 It will explore the intersections of art and activism, public spaces and historical memorialization in the Mexican capital.
According to Indych-L贸pez, 鈥淚m谩genes de la ciudad鈥 was inspired by the provocative dialogues in one of the graduate seminars she teaches.
鈥淢y study concentrates on the ways in which artists, advertisers, designers, photographers, urban dwellers, and others have negotiated the visual construction of Mexico City across the 20th century and have transformed the city itself by creating visual networks and spatial and urban interventions,鈥 she explained.
Indych-L贸pez鈥 previous books include:
- 鈥,鈥 Silver medalist, Multicultural Adult Non-Fiction category, 2018 Independent Publisher Book Awards;
- 鈥溾 (2009), recipient of the College Art Association's Wyeth Foundation for American Art Publication Grant;
- 鈥溾 (co-authored with Leah Dickerman, 2011).
Indych-L贸pez鈥 scholarship investigates Latin American and U.S. modernisms as well as Latina/o and U.S.-Mexico borderlands contemporary art, focusing on trans-American exchanges, the polemics of realisms, and public space.
She holds appointments as professor of Latin American and Latina/o art history in CCNY鈥檚 Division of Humanities and the Arts, and at .
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