María Isabel Baldasarre

Every Page Foundation Fellow

09/02/2024–12/31/2024

María Isabel Baldasarre is professor of art history in the MA Program in Argentinian and Latin American art history at Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Argentina and researcher at Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET). Between 2019 and 2023 she was National Director of Museums of the National Ministry of Culture. She is the author of the books: Los dueños del arte: Coleccionismo y consumo cultural en Buenos Aires (2006) and Bien vestidos: Una historia visual de la moda en Buenos Aires (1870–1914) (2021). At the Clark, Baldasarre will be working on a book project titled “The Liberation of the Female Body: Fashion, Art, and Visual Culture in Modern Argentina.” This research discusses fashion, self-representation, and the bodies of women and those with feminine identities as they relate to visual culture from the late-nineteenth century through the present.