Alexander Alberro

Biography

Alexander Alberro's courses and graduate advising is in the area of modern and contemporary European, U.S., and Latin American art, as well as in the history of photography. Recent lecture courses include "Histories of Photography"; "Early Modernism and the Crisis of Representation"; “In and Around Abstract Expressionism”; and “Contemporary Art.” Recent graduate seminars include "Contemporary Photography and Camera Work"; "Spectatorship, Participation and Interaction in Contemporary Art"; "Contemporary Art and Contemporaneity"; and "Abstract Art and its Legacies in Latin America." Professor Alberro's writings have appeared in a wide variety of journals and exhibition catalogues. He is also the author of Abstraction in Reverse: The Reconfigured Spectator in Mid-Twentieth Century Latin American Art (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming); Conceptual Art and the Politics of Publicity (MIT, 2003), and has edited books on contemporary art including Working Conditions:

Research Interest

Spectatorship, Participation and Interaction in Contemporary Art