Maya A. Jimenez
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Art
Music and Art
EMAIL: majimenez@bmcc.cuny.edu
Office: F-1108
Office Hours: F-1108
Phone:
Dr. Maya Jiménez is Lecturer of Art History at BMCC. She is also Contributing Editor for Twentieth-Century Latin American Art at Smarthistory and Lecturer at the Museum of Modern Art. She received her Ph.D. from the Graduate Center, CUNY, where she focused on the transatlantic dialogues between Latin American and European modern art.
Expertise
Twentieth-Century Latin American Art Contributing Editor, Smarthistory
https://smarthistory.org/author/dr-maya-jimenez/page/2/
Educator, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Degrees
Ph.D. Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, NY, Art History
M.Phil., Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, NY, Art History
B.A., George Washington University, Washington D.C., Art History
Courses Taught
- This introduction to art history includes the study of painting, sculpture, architecture and other media by surveying the Paleolithic period through the Late Gothic period using a global approach. This exploration of art and architecture in terms of history, social context, meaning and style will promote a general understanding of the development of art and style in different cultures and the effects of cultural exchange on the arts. Discussions of techniques, media, composition, and figure representation will provide an understanding of key concepts in the arts.
- Using a global approach, this introduction to art history includes the study of painting, sculpture, architecture and other media by surveying the Renaissance through the start of the twentieth century. The exploration of techniques, media, composition, and figure representation will provide an understanding of key concepts in the arts with additional focus on the historical and social context, which developed the meaning and changing styles in different cultures as well as the effects of cultural exchange through the arts.
- This survey examines the art and architecture of Latin America from the pre-Columbian era to the present. The course begins with an analysis of pre-Hispanic iconography, styles, traditions, and techniques in Meso, Central, South America, and the Caribbean. The art of colonial Latin America will be explored to understand the cultural complexity that characterized Spanish colonialism. The development of Modern art in Latin America, following independence and nation building in the 19th century, will be discussed as a series of responses to the influence of international movements and ideas. The course culminates in the exploration of Contemporary Latin American and Latina/o art, including Chicana/o art. Museum visit required.
- 3 CRS.3 HRS.NULL LAB HRS.ART 294 (18th & 19th Century Art: The Age of Enlightenment and Industry)
- The survey of Eighteen-and Nineteenth-Century Art traces the development of the visual arts throughout the Age of Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution from c. 1700 to 1900 in Europe and North America. Emphasis will be placed on the chronological development of style from the Baroque, to the Rococo, Neo-Classical, Romantic, Realist, and Impressionist Movements, as well as the development of photography, and the foundations laid for the arts and artists of the 20th century. Prerequisites: ENG 101 and ART 102 or ART 104
- This capstone course for Art History Majors covers a range of topics relating to the pursuit of careers in the arts. Students will develop a topic and complete a comprehensive research paper for presentation. During the semester, students will take part in museum visits, gallery tours, and attend talks by professionals in the field of art history to develop an understanding of the opportunities for art historians. Prerequisite: Departmental permission
Research and Projects
Selected Presentations:
“A Cross-Disciplinary and Cross-Institutional Approach to Teaching Art History,” Balancing Act: Teachers, Students, Life, CAA Annual Conference, February 17, 2023.
“From the Outside Looking In: Henry Price and the Comisión Corográfica,” South and North American Positionalities: Representing the Other in the Interdisciplinary 19th century, CAA Annual Conference (Virtual), March 4, 2022.
“Revisiting the Academic Nude at the Escuela de Bellas Artes in Bogotá, Colombia,” American Nationalisms Inside and Outside of the Academy from 1800 to the Present, CAA Annual Conference, New York NY, February 14, 2019.
“Taking Art History Beyond the Classroom,” Reinventing the Familiar: Updated Approaches College Art in Art History and the Studio, CAA Annual Conference, New York, NY, February 15-18, 2017.
The Latin American Presence at International Exhibitions, 1855-Present, CAA Annual Conference, New York, NY, February 13-16, 2013.
Publications
“A Cosmopolitan Ambition: La Regeneración and the French Academic Nude in 19th-Century Colombia.” H-ART. Revista de historía, teoría y crítica de arte, no. 7 (2020): 157-174. https://doi.org/10.25025/hart07.2020.10
“The Myth of the Baiana in Nineteenth Century Portrait Photography,” in Visual Typologies from the Early Modern to the Contemporary, eds. Tara Zanardi and Lynda Klich (Routledge, 2018).
“A ‘Primitive’ Latin America on View at the 1889 Exposition Universelle” (Journal of Curatorial Studies, Volume 3 Issues 2-3, June/October 2014).
“Modernism and the Nude in Colombian Art” (Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide Journal, Volume 12, Issue 1, Spring 2013) http://19thc-artworldwide.org/
Honors, Awards and Affiliations
Affiliations:
College Art Association (CAA)
Association of Latin American Art Historians (ALAA)
Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies (INCS)
