M. Elizabeth Boone

Area of Study / Keywords

Art and visual culture in the long nineteenth century Spain and the Americas international exhibitions art and animals

About

MA University of California, Berkeley, 1985; PhD City University of New York, 1996

Betsy Boone is a professor of the History of Art, Design, and Visual Culture who studies nineteenth and early twentieth-century art in the United States, Spain, and Latin America. She is the author of Vistas de España: American Views of Art and Life in Spain, 1860-1914 (Yale University Press, 2007) and "The Spanish Element in Our Nationality": Spain, America, and the World's Fairs and Centennial Celebrations, 1876-1915 (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2020), in addition to numerous articles on art, photography, and print culture in western Europe and the Americas. She loves animals, especially cats and horses, and is an avid equestrian.

HADVC 213 - History of Art, Design, and Visual Culture in Latin America

Introduction to the historical study of art, design, and visual culture in Latin America, including the Indigenous cultures of Mesoamerica and the precontact Andes, colonization and resistance, and changing modes of Indigenous art and representation in the Post-Independence and modern periods.

HADVC 403 - Topics in Early Modern Art, Design and Visual Culture

Variable content course which may be repeated if topic(s) vary. Prerequisite: Any HADVC 3XX with a minimum grade of B, or consent of the Department.

HADVC 503 - Advanced Studies in Early Modern Art, Design and Visual Culture

Prerequisite: consent of Department. Variable content course which may be repeated if topic(s) vary.

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