Josefina de la Maza

Independent Researcher

07/01/2018 - 07/22/2018

Josefina de la Maza is an independent researcher based between Mexico City and Santiago de Chile. Her academic interests revolve around the development of Chilean and Latin American art of the 19th and 20th centuries, the emergence of fine-art academies and museums, the links between crafts and fine arts, and textile art. She has been a fellow of the Coimbra Foundation, the Social Sciences Research Council, the Fulbright Foundation, FONDART and CONICYT. Her latest book is De obras maestras y mamarrachos: notas para una historia del arte del siglo XIX chileno (2014). At the Clark, she will be working with colleagues Soledad García and Carla Macchiavello on the book project Reimagining the 1960s: Pop and the popular in revolutionary Chile.