Dr. Diogo Rodrigues de Barros

Dr. Diogo Rodrigues de Barros is a scientific assistant in the department of Prof. Dr. Tristan Weddigen. He completed his PhD in Art History at the University of Montreal in 2023, having worked as a lecturer at the same university before joining the Hertziana. His dissertation, entitled La Sociabilité latino-américaniste : continentalisme, histoire et critique d’art (1967-1995), is a study of collective projects – publications, conferences, and exhibitions – developed by Latin American art critics as a way of affirming the continent’s cultural unity. Dr. de Barros was previously awarded an M.A. in Social Sciences from the École des hautes études en sciences sociales and a B.A. in History from the University of São Paulo. His current research is a comparative study of the uses of the concept of crisis in art criticism in Italy and Brazil during the 1960s and 1970s, with a particular interest in the intersections between discourses on the crisis of modern art and references to crises of democratic culture in post-fascist Italy and Brazil under dictatorship.