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Jamie Rose Valera

Jamie Rose Valera is an art historian and theorist from the San Francisco Bay Area. Valera is a 2017 alumna of the Middle College program and will graduate in 2021 with her B.A. in the history of art and visual culture at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Currently, she plans to continue researching and writing through a Ph.D. in art history and visual studies. Valera's work focuses on representations of the body by intersecting the past with the present. Her findings have been presented at symposiums and published by arts and humanities journals. After working the contemporary art gallery scene, Valera aims to delve into Museum Education, and later research and teach as a Professor of art history and visual studies.

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Articles by Jamie Rose Valera

In Defense of Contemporary Art: Is There A Case To Be Made?

Is Modern Art Dead? An Overview of Modernism and its Aesthetics

Produced throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, Modern Art revolutionized the theoretical and philosophical spheres of art history. With the onset of 21st-century contemporary art, is modern art dead?

What is Art? Answers to this Popular Question

Art is timeless, but will forever be incongruous with itself. The incompatible nature of what is art may be found upon closer inspection of its history and trajectory.

Edvard Munch’s Frieze of Life: A Tale of Femme Fatale and Freedom

Set at the turn of the 19th century in Europe is Edvard Munch’s Frieze of Life, reflecting on the growing anxiety of modern times and its emerging assertive women.