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Art history scholar David Craven will discuss “A Trans-Atlantic Interchange Involving Fri(e)da Kahlo, Tina Modotti and Hannah Höch” Nov. 2 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

The free public lecture will be at 5:30 p.m. in the Hanes Art Center Auditorium.

Craven, who received his Ph.D. from UNC in 1979, is a distinguished professor of art history at the University of New Mexico. He is an expert on post-war U.S. art and modern Latin American art.

Kahlo (1907-1954) was a Mexican painter; Modotti (1896-1942), an Italian-born photographer; Höch (1889-1978), a German Dadaist painter.

Craven has written 10 books and major catalogue essays for leading museums worldwide. His more than 150 articles and review essays, published in 25 countries, have been translated into at least 15 languages.

His books include “Art & Revolution in Latin America, 1910-1990,” “Abstract Expressionism as Cultural Critique: Dissent During the McCarthy Period,” “Mexican Modern: Masters of the 20th Century” and “Diego Rivera as Epic Modernist.” He received a Medal of Excellence from New York State in 1991.

Craven has won fellowships and grants from the American Council of Learned Societies, the New York Council for the Humanities, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Rockefeller Foundation and other organizations.

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Caption: “My Dress Hangs There,” Fri(e)da Kahlo, oil and collage on masonite, 1933, private collection

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