Professor Valerie Fraser
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Email
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Location
Colchester Campus
Profile
Biography
Valerie Fraser specialises in the art and architecture of Latin America and Spain with particular emphasis on the early colonial period and the 20th/21st centuries. She is Chair of the Essex Collection of Art from Latin America (ESCALA). She has won a number of major awards from the AHRC including funding for a fully-illustrated online catalogue of ESCALA, and is currently overseeing a three-year AHRC-funded research project (2009-2012) entitled Meeting Margins: Transnational Art in Latin America and Europe 1950-1978 which is in collaboration with the University of the Arts London and investigates artistic relations between Europe and Latin America in the post-war period. She has worked on a number of exhibitions including Kahlo's Contemporaries held at the University Gallery in 2005, and Latin American Art: Contexts and Accomplices at the Sainsbury Centre, University of East Anglia, 2004.
Research and professional activities
Research interests
Colonial Latin American art
Colonial Latin American architecture
20th century Latin American art
20th century Latin American architecture
Teaching and supervision
Previous supervision
Degree subject: Art History and Theory
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 29/8/2018
Degree subject: Art History and Theory
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 4/8/2017
Degree subject: Art History and Theory
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 7/4/2017
Degree subject: Art History and Theory
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 12/10/2016
Degree subject: Art History and Theory
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 28/6/2016
Degree subject: Art History and Theory
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 26/2/2016
Degree subject: Art History and Theory
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 20/8/2014
Publications
Journal articles (8)
Fraser, V., (2015). Accommodating religious tourism: the case of the Basilica of the Virgin of Guadalupe in Mexico. Interiors. 6 (3), 329-350
Fraser, V., (2012). Encounters in New York, Printmaking in Chile. American Art. 26 (2), 28-33
Fraser, V., (2001). Shape of Inca history: Narrative and architecture in an Andean empire. JOURNAL OF LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES. 33, 413-415
Fraser, V., (2000). Cannibalizing Le Corbusier: The MES Gardens of Roberto Burle Marx. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. 59 (2), 180-193
Fraser, V., (1992). Architecture and Ambition: the Case of the Jesuits in the Viceroyalty of Peru1. History Workshop Journal. 34 (1), 17-32
FRASER, V., (1991). Surrealising the Baroque: Mexico's Spanish Heritage and the Work of Alberto Gironella. Oxford Art Journal. 14 (1), 34-43
Fraser, V., (1986). ARCHITECTURE AND IMPERIALISM IN SIXTEENTH‐CENTURY SPANISH AMERICA. Art History. 9 (3), 325-335
Benton, T., Rifkin, AD., Pollock, G., Elam, C., Steer, J., Cocke, R. and Fraser, V., (1981). Reviews. Art History. 4 (3), 348-353
Book chapters (3)
Fraser, V., (2006). Herman Braun-Vega. In: Blanton Museum of Art: Latin American Collection. Editors: Pérez-Barreiro, G., . Blanton Museum of Art. 978-0977145331
Fraser, V., (2004). Art and architecture in Latin America. In: The Cambridge Companion to Modern Latin American Culture. Cambridge University Press. 202- 235. 0521631513. 9780521631518
Fraser, V., (2004). Brasília. In: Readings in Latin American Modern Art. 117- 131. 9780300102550