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Emily UmbergerArea: ArtCategory: Faculty Title: Professor Office: Ghall 117 Phone: 480-965-7227 Fax: 480-965-8338 Specialty: Art History Email: emily.umberger@asu.edu WebPage: |
| Bio: B.A. University of Pennsylvania; M.A. University of Texas, Austin; Ph.D. Columbia University. Courses taught: Africa, Oceania, and Americas; Precolumbian Mesoamerica and South America; Spain and its New World colonies during the Renaissance and Baroque; seminars on Spanish and Mexican art before 1800. Scholarly interests: Aztec sculptures, hieroglyphic writing, metaphors, politics, and history; colonial Mexico; Spanish painting (17th century). Selected publications: "The Metaphorical Underpinnings of Aztec History," in press; "Bac on the Border," in press; "Ethnicity and Other Identities in Aztec Sculptures," in press; "Notions of Aztec History: The Case of the 1487 Great Temple Dedication," Res 2003; "The Monarchia Indiana in Seventeenth-Century New Spain," in Converging Cultures, 1996; with others, Aztec Imperial Strategies, 1996; "Velázquez and Naturalism," Parts I and II" Res 1993 and 1995; "Antiques, Revivals, and References to the Past in Aztec Art," Res, 1987. |
