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    Laura Moure Cecchini

  • Laura Moure Cecchini

  • Art, Art History & Visual Studies
  • 112 East Duke Building
  • Campus Box 90764
  • Phone: 668-1490
  • Fax: 684-4398

  • Bio

    Laura is a second year PhD student, working under the supervision of Dr. Mark Antliff. Her research focuses on Italian Modernism, and the intersections between philosophy, art history, and art practice between 1845 and 1945. She is also interested in the artistic and cultural exchanges between Italy and Latin America, in particular Mexico and Argentina. Laura has a B.A. in Philosophy from Universidad Iberoamericana (Mexico City), and a M.Phil. in Philosophy from National Autonomous University of Mexico (Mexico City).

  • Specialties

    • Late 19th and Early 20th Century Art
    • Aesthetics and Political Theory
    • Theory & Criticism

  • Research Description

    In her dissertation, tentatively titled "Italian Modernism and the Baroque. From Fin de siècle Decadence to Fascism", Laura will analyze how some key figures – artists, critics, and art historians – invoked Baroque motifs, genres and tropes to interpret the experience of Modernity. In particular, she is interested in the contested re-appropriation of the Baroque under Fascism, both as a model for propaganda architecture, for example in the projects of Armando Brasini, and as an alternative to the classicizing Novecento aesthetic, in the work of the the Scuola Romana group and Lucio Fontana. Advisor: Dr. Mark Antliff.

  • Areas of Interest

    Reactionary Modernism
    Artistic exchanges between Italy and Latin America
    History of Photography
    Nationalism and the Visual Arts
    Methodology of Art History

  • Awards, Honors and Distinctions

      • Pre-Dissertation Research Travel Award,
      • Duke University,
      • 2012
      • Summer Research Fellowship,
      • Duke University,
      • 2012
      • Gulnar Bosch Travel Award,
      • Southeastern College Art Conference,
      • November, 2011
      • Research Travel Grant,
      • Department of A,AH&VS, Duke University,
      • July, 2011
      • Sverdlin Prize,
      • Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Mexico City),
      • October, 2010
      • International Fellowship,
      • Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (Mexico),
      • 2008

  • Recent Publications

      • Laura Moure Cecchini.
      • "Escribir para perder el rostro. La escritura de sí como práctica de desubjetivación en Michel Foucault."
      • Revista de Filosofía
      • (2011)
      • .
      • Laura Moure Cecchini.
      • "Indias pin-up: la indígena como objeto erótico en los calendarios de los años ’40-‘50."
      • Los sueños de una nación. Un año después 2011.
      • Ed. José Luis Barrios Lara.
      • Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes,
      • 2011.
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  • Teaching

    • ARTHIST 102D.01
      • INTRO TO HISTORY OF ART
      • Perkins 2-059
      • MTuTh 12:30 PM-02:35 PM