Mary K. Coffey
PhD, Art History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Art History, Assistant Professor
Recent Scholarship:
“Representation, Institutionalization, and the State: Marxist and
Post-Structural Approaches to Mexican Muralism and the Popular,” in As
Radical as Reality Itself: Essays on Marxism and Art for the 21st
Century, eds. Matthew Beaumont, Andrew Hemingway, Esther Leslie, John
Roberts (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2007): 67-101.
“’I’m not the Fourth Great One’: Rufino Tamayo and Mexican Muralism,” in
Tamayo: A Modern Icon Reinterpreted, ed. Diana du Pont (Santa Barbara:
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 2007), 247-267.
"The American Adonis: A Natural History of the Average American Man,
1921-1932," Popular Eugenics: American Mass Culture in the 1930s, Sue
Currell and Christina Cogdell, editors (Athens: Ohio University Press,
2006).
"Angels and Prostitutes: José Clemente Orozco's Catharsis and
the Politics of Female Allegory in 1930's Mexico," CR: The New Centennial
Review 4, no. 2 (2004).
"Of Bodies and Embodiment: Fred Wilson's So Much Trouble in the World
Believe it or not!" in So Much Trouble in the World - Believe it or
not! Barbara Thompson, editor (Hanover: University Press of New England,
2006).
Interests:
Feminist Art, Theory, and Historiography
Gender and Popular/Visual Culture
Nationalism, Eugenics, and the gender and race politics of modernist aesthetics
in the Americas.
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