Jordana Mendelson
Encyclopedia
Jordana Mendelson is an author
, curator
, and professor
. Dr. Mendelson currently serves as Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literature at New York University
. Previously, Dr. Mendelson was an Associate Professor of Art History
at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
. Her scholarship is centered on the impact of images in the Spanish print media from 1929–1939. Her book Documenting Spain: Artists, Exhibition Culture, and the Modern Nation, 1929–1939 was published in 2005 by Penn State University Press
. She currently serves as president of the American Society for Hispanic Art Historical Studies (2004–2006).http://www.art.uiuc.edu/grads/handbook/download/artHistory/ArtHistoryHandbookFall05.pdf
Author
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, curator
Curator
A curator is a manager or overseer. Traditionally, a curator or keeper of a cultural heritage institution is a content specialist responsible for an institution's collections and involved with the interpretation of heritage material...
, and professor
Professor
A professor is a scholarly teacher; the precise meaning of the term varies by country. Literally, professor derives from Latin as a "person who professes" being usually an expert in arts or sciences; a teacher of high rank...
. Dr. Mendelson currently serves as Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literature at New York University
New York University
New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...
. Previously, Dr. Mendelson was an Associate Professor of Art History
Art history
Art history has historically been understood as the academic study of objects of art in their historical development and stylistic contexts, i.e. genre, design, format, and style...
at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign is a large public research-intensive university in the state of Illinois, United States. It is the flagship campus of the University of Illinois system...
. Her scholarship is centered on the impact of images in the Spanish print media from 1929–1939. Her book Documenting Spain: Artists, Exhibition Culture, and the Modern Nation, 1929–1939 was published in 2005 by Penn State University Press
Penn State University Press
The Penn State University Press, also called Penn State Press was established in 1956, and is a non-profit publisher of scholarly books and journals. It is the independent publishing branch of the Pennsylvania State University and is a division of the Penn State University Library system...
. She currently serves as president of the American Society for Hispanic Art Historical Studies (2004–2006).http://www.art.uiuc.edu/grads/handbook/download/artHistory/ArtHistoryHandbookFall05.pdf
Exhibition
- The exhibition Revistas y Guerra 1936 – 1939 curated by Jordana Mendelson opened in MadridMadridMadrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...
, Spain at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina SofíaMuseo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina SofíaThe Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía is the official name of Spain's national museum of 20th century art . The museum was officially inaugurated on September 10, 1992 and is named for Queen Sofia of Spain...
in January 2007.
See also
- Spanish Civil WarSpanish Civil WarThe Spanish Civil WarAlso known as The Crusade among Nationalists, the Fourth Carlist War among Carlists, and The Rebellion or Uprising among Republicans. was a major conflict fought in Spain from 17 July 1936 to 1 April 1939...
- University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignThe University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign is a large public research-intensive university in the state of Illinois, United States. It is the flagship campus of the University of Illinois system...
- Salvador DalíSalvador DalíSalvador Domènec Felip Jacint Dalí i Domènech, Marquis de Púbol , commonly known as Salvador Dalí , was a prominent Spanish Catalan surrealist painter born in Figueres,Spain....
- SpainSpainSpain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
- ModernismModernismModernism, in its broadest definition, is modern thought, character, or practice. More specifically, the term describes the modernist movement, its set of cultural tendencies and array of associated cultural movements, originally arising from wide-scale and far-reaching changes to Western society...
External links
- Pennsylvania State University Press site for Documenting Spain ISBN 0-271-02474-7 ISBN 978-0-271-02474-5
- Pennsylvania State University Press site for Refiguring Modernism Series
- Online version of the exhibition Revistas y Guerra 1936–1939: La Guerra Civil Espanola y la Cultura Impresa
- Online version of the exhibition Magazines & War 1936–1939: Spanish Civil War Print Culture
- New York University curriculum vitae http://spanish.as.nyu.edu/object/jordana.html