Maria Elena Versari, Department of Art Lecture Series
The Department of Art Lecture Series presents Maria Elena Versari Lecture. Versari is a Visiting Professor of Art History and Theory at Carnegie Mellon University. She studied at the Scuola Normale Superiore, where she received a PhD in Art History with a doctoral dissertation devoted to the international relations of Futurism. She has published two monographs and has written extensively on Futurism, Avant-garde internationalism, Cubism, Fascist aesthetics and architecture, and 20th-century sculpture. In 2016, she edited and co-translated the first English-language edition of Boccioni's 1914 Futurist Painting Sculpture for the Getty Research Institute Publications and has co-curated Totally Lost, an EU-sponsored exhibition devoted to totalitarian architecture and urban memory involving 186 international photographers and mapping 300 locations worldwide.