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Claire Farago, Professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder, is the inaugural Fulbright-York Scholar in the Department of Art History at the University of York, 2011-12. She has published extensively on Leonardo da Vinci, Renaissance art theory, Latin American studies, and contemporary critical theory, most recently two edited volumes, Leonardo da Vinci and the Ethics of Style (2008) and Re-Reading Leonardo: The Treatise on Painting across Europe 1550-1900 (2009). She is the contributing editor of Reframing the Renaissance: Visual Culture in Europe and Latin American 1450-1650 (1995), among the first studies to advocate a shift of emphasis in art history toward the study of cultural interaction. She was recently MacGeorge Fellow at the University of Melbourne where she developed research for her latest book, Art Is Not What You Think It Is, jointly authored with Donald Preziosi and forthcoming in January 2012. Her Fulbright project is to finish a work in progress on the cultural and intellectual history of Leonardo’s Trattato della Pittura (Paris, 1651) that be included in the modern critical edition she is editing with an international team of Leonardo specialists.

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