Adrian R. Duran

Assistant Professor

Art History

BA University of Notre Dame
MA University of Delaware
PhD University of Delaware

Adrian Duran specializes in Modern and Contemporary Art History. His research interests include Italian painting during the Cold War and Hip Hop culture and politics.

Recent papers and publications include:

- Abstract Expressionism's Italian Reception: Questions of Influence” (Forthcoming in Joan Marter, ed. Abstract Expressionism: An International Language. Rutgers University Press, 2006),

- From Hot to Cold: Imaging War in Mid-century Italy” (Association for the Study of Modern Italy 2005 conference Edinburgh, Scotland November 25-26 2005),

- Luigi Nono's Intolleranza 1960: Informel, Dodecaphonia, Politics and Opera in Venice at the Dawn of Post-Modernism” (“Recovering Post-War Europe: Art and Architecture 1945-1970” University of Pennsylvania, October 8-9, 2004),

- Bling Bling: Conspicuous Consumption and the Politics of Hip Hop” (Chicago Art Journal - Volume 14, Spring 2004).

aduran@mca.edu / 901-272-5129

Adrian R. Duran

Assistant Professor

Art History

BA University of Notre Dame MA University of Delaware PhD University of Delaware

BA University of Notre Dame
MA University of Delaware
PhD University of Delaware