by Jon Lackman | 15 February 2012 | Americas
The New Mexico Daily Lobo reports the death of David Craven, author of Art and Revolution in Latin America, 1910-1990:
[Craven] died Saturday from an apparent heart attack while playing tennis, his family said. Craven became a professor at UNM in 1993 and was the fine arts department chair for two years. He published 10 books and more than 150 articles in scholarly journals … Craven received his distinguished professor title in 2007 while at UNM. He was fluent in four languages and traveled the world giving speeches at more than 100 universities.
Chika Okeke-Agulu writes:
I just got this news of the transition of David Craven, one of the scholars whose work I really, really admired; a pioneer Latin American art historian in many ways. He contributed immensely to the development of rigorous approaches to the art history of modernism outside of Europe. And who will forget his tour-de-force essay, “Latin American Origins of Alternative Modernism“? Any student of modernism who ignores it does so at his own intellectual peril! But come to think of it; does anyone know of any invention more stupid than Death?
