Marta traba

Marta Traba Taín (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 25 January 1952 - Madrid, 27 November 1983) was an art critic and writer well known for her important contributions in the study of Latin American art.

Her parents were Greek immigrants, Francisco Traba and Marta Taín. Se studied Phylosophy at the University of Buenos Aires. During the years in the university, she worked in a magazine called "Ver y Estimar", directed by the art critic Jorge Romero Brest.

From 1949 to 1950 she studied Art History in La Sorbona of Paris and then in the National University of Colombia, in Bogotá, where she obtained the Art History course. She founded the Modern Art Museum of Bogotá.^[1] Meanwhile, she taught at the Universidad de los Andes. In 1968, during the government of Carlos Lleras Restrepo, los militares ocuparon la National University of Colombia and expelled her from the country. As an exile, she lived in Montevideo, Caracas, San Juan de Puerto Rico, Washington, Barcelona and Paris, with her second husband, the Uruguayan literary critic Ángel Rama.

In 1958 she published El museo vacío, an essay about aethetics where she wrote a critic about Benedetto Croce and Wilhelm Worringer. Also she published some essays about the history of Latin American art: In 1961 La pintura nueva en Latinoamérica (1961), Dos décadas vulnerables en las artes plásticas latinoamericanas (1950-1970) (1973), Arte de América Latina 1900-1980. She analized the work of some Latin American artists like Alejandro Obregón, Fernando Botero, Leopoldo Richter, Guillermo Videmann, Eduardo Ramírez, Edgar Negret, Feliza Bursztyn y Antonio Roda.^[2]

References

1. ^ "Historia del Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá (MAMBO)". http://www.mambogota.com/mambo/interna_secciones.php?subtitulo=Historia. Retrieved 27 june 2011. 
2. ^ Ana María Escallón. "Marta Traba: Crítica de Arte ingeniosa, punzante y conocedora". http://www.latinartmuseum.net/marta_traba.htm. Retrieved 27 june 2011. 

Persondata
Name	Traba, Marta
Alternative names
Short description	Argentinean art critic
Date of birth	January 25, 1930
Place of birth	Buenos Aires
Date of death	November 27, 1983
Place of death	Madrid