Congratulations to Lynne Lee, Art History Ph.D. candidate, for being awarded the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA) Research Grant! ISLAA called for proposals in November 2022 for graduate students in the US and abroad conducting novel research on themes, geographies, and chronologies of modern and contemporary art and visual culture from Latin America, the Caribbean, and the diaspora.
The ISLAA selection committee chose Lynne’s proposal to research for her dissertation titled "Black Art in White Narratives: Early Afro-Brazilian Art History at the Crossroads of Science and Aesthetics" among the many applications received.
Lynne Lee specializes in Afro-Brazilian modernism and its transatlantic network. Her dissertation delves into the network of intellectuals and technocrats who undertook the first studies of Black art in Brazil. By tracing a network of people, ideas, and artifacts, she explores how cultural manifestations of the African diaspora were perceived and instrumentalized by white Brazilian scholars in the context of artistic and national modernization.
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