Oriana Baddeley
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Oriana Baddeleyis a professor of transnational art history atUALwhere from 2011 to 2020 she was Dean of Research.[1]
She was born Lucy Oriana Halkett Baddeley in Singapore in 1954, the daughter of British diplomat John Halkett Baddeley (1920-1972) and Greek born Maria Roussen (1916-2005). She was educated atHolland Park Comprehensive,London and studied history and theory of art at theUniversity of Essexwhere she completed her PhD in 1986 under the supervision ofDawn Adès.
Education and career
[edit]Baddeley has written extensively on contemporary Latin American art, frequently in relation to gender, and onFrida Kahlo[2][3][4]andTeresa Margollesin particular. Her work has explored the values and meanings of the ancient cultures of the Americas and the ways in which colonization and the discourses of post-colonialism impacted on the interpretation of those cultures. The bookDrawing the Line: Art and Cultural Identity in Contemporary Latin America[5]remains a standard text and she collaborated withGerardo Mosquerato produce the English language version ofBeyond the Fantastic: Art Criticism from Contemporary Latin America.[6]With Toshio Watanabe and Partha Mitter, (2001–2004), she worked on a majorAHRCfunded project,Nation, Identity and Modernity: Visual Culture of India, Japan and Mexico, 1860s–1940.Since 2011 she has developed a number of projects in relation to the Swiss photographerFrédéric Boissonnas.
She was co-founder of theUALresearch centre for Transnational Art, Identity and Nation; is a Trustee of the St Catherine Foundation in London and New York; the Ashley Family Foundation; on the Advisory board of theHyundaiTateTransnational Research Centre; and she is Chair of the Practice Research Advisory Group-UK.
She lives in London and is married with two sons.
References
[edit]- ^"Frida Kahlo's family struggles to manage legacy".Hurriyet Daily News.24 May 2018. Archived fromthe originalon 26 May 2018.
- ^Baddeley, Oriana (1991). "'Her Dress Hangs Here': De-Frocking the Kahlo Cult ".Oxford Art Journal.14(1): 10–17.
- ^Baddeley, Oriana."The Forum, Frida Kahlo: A life in colour".BBC.BBC World Service.
- ^Levy, Deborah (27 June 2018)."Can an exhibition of her most intimate possessions bring us any closer to Frida Kahlo?".New Statesman.Retrieved19 March2021.
- ^Baddeley, Oriana; Fraser, Valerie (1989).Drawing the Line: Art and Cultural Identity in Contemporary Latin America.London: Verso.ISBN0860919536.
- ^Mosquera, Gerardo (1996).Beyond the Fantastic: Art Criticism from Contemporary Latin America.INIVA/MIT.ISBN189984600X.
