Mount presents lecture on Mexican women surrealists

NEWBURGH —The Cultural Center at Mount Saint Mary College will present the lecture “Women Surrealists in Mexico” at 4 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 22, in the Villa Library. Susan Aberth, Ph.D., assistant professor of art history at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson and a specialist in Latin American art, will give the lecture. During the 1940s, Mexico granted asylum to Europeans escaping from World War II, resulting in the formation of a substantial émigré enclave of surrealist writers, poets, and artists centered in Mexico City. The talk focuses on both Mexicans and Europeans, including Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, Spanish-born Mexican painter Remedios Varo, French-born Mexican painter Alice Rahon, and Hungarian-born Mexican painter Kati Horna. Aberth wrote “Leonora Carrington: Surrealism, Alchemy and Art,” a book about the British-born Mexican surrealist, in 2004. She received a doctorate in art history from the City University of New York, a master’s from New York University and a bachelor’s from the University of California. The lecture is free and the public is welcome. Refreshments will be served. For more information, call the Cultural Center at 569-3290 or visit www.msmc.edu.