Jordana Mendelson

Jordana Mendelson (born 1970) is an author, curator, and professor. Mendelson currently serves as associate professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literature at New York University. Previously, Mendelson was an associate professor of Art History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her scholarship is centered on the impact of images in the Spanish print media from 1929 to 1939. Her book Documenting Spain: Artists, Exhibition Culture, and the Modern Nation, 1929–1939 was published in 2005 by Penn State University Press. She currently serves as president of the American Society for Hispanic Art Historical Studies (2004–2006).[1]

Book

• Mendelson, Jordana (2005). Documenting Spain: Artists, Exhibition Culture, and the Modern Nation, 1929–1939. Pennsylvania Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press. ISBN 0-271-02474-7.

Exhibition

• The exhibition Revistas y Guerra 1936 – 1939 curated by Jordana Mendelson opened in Madrid, Spain at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in January 2007.

See also

• Spanish Civil War
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Salvador Dalí
• Spain
• Modernism
• Mendelson, Jordana (2005). Documenting Spain: Artists, Exhibition Culture, and the Modern Nation, 1929–1939. Pennsylvania Park, Pa: Pennsylvania State University Press. ISBN 0-271-02474-7.

External links

• Pennsylvania State University Press site for Documenting Spain ISBN 0-271-02474-7 ISBN 978-0-271-02474-5
• Pennsylvania State University Press site for Refiguring Modernism Series
• Online version of the exhibition Revistas y Guerra 1936–1939: La Guerra Civil Espanola y la Cultura Impresa
• Online version of the exhibition Magazines & War 1936–1939: Spanish Civil War Print Culture
• New York University curriculum vitae [2]