Abstract Art, Real Contexts: 20th-c. Latin American Politics and Art

A lecture with Emily K. Hage, Ph.D. and Richard N. Gioioso, Ph.D.

Tuesday, November 28, 2023

12:30-1:30pm

This lecture will focus on Latin American political and social history and how abstract artists in the 20th c. responded to their contexts in their works. This lecture will focus on work in the Impulse, Reason, Sense, Conflict exhibition that remains on view in the museum through December 15, 2023. This event is free and open to the public. The museum will be open to the public from 11:30 - 2:30 on this day to allow visitors to view the exhibition in discussion.

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Emily K. Hage, Ph.D. 

Professor Hage is the Director of the Frances M. Maguire Art Museum and an Associate Professor of Art History at Saint Joseph's University. She specializes in 20th-century European and American art with an emphasis on magazines. She has published on Dada art journals and Dadazines and punk zines from the 1970s, and her recent article in Art Journal analyzes Romare Bearden’s 1968 covers for Time and Fortune magazines. Her current book projects are Dada Magazines: The Making of a Movement and The Art of Fortune Magazine: 1930-1970.

Richard N. Gioioso, Ph.D.

Professor Gioioso is an Associate Professor of Political Science and the Director of the International Relations Program at Saint Joseph’s University. His research and writing examine migration and the incorporation of Latin American and Caribbean immigrants in the United States. He also focuses on the lives of Cuban young adults as they navigate economic, political, and social change on the island, in both the capital city, Havana, and in the province of Holguín in eastern Cuba. He is currently investigating Cuban political and legal philosophy in both historical and contemporary Cuba as well. Dr. Gioioso has published in various scholarly journals. His most recent article, Estado de Derecho y socialismo en Cuba: Un análisis desde la reforma constitucional del 2019, co-authored with Dr. Vladimir Pita Simón of the Universidad de Holguín, was published in the Latin American Law Review in 2022. Youth and Development in Cuba, his co-edited volume with Zaily Velázquez Martínez and Carlos Osorio García of the Universidad de Holguín, was published in 2022 by Palgrave Macmillan.