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<\/a>Susan Aberth<\/strong> is an art historian whose area of specialization is surrealism in Latin America. Aberth\u2019s teaching interests focus on Latin American art, African art, Islamic art, and other religious art and practices. Additional interests include African religious practices in the Americas, and the art and iconography of Freemasonry, Spiritualism, and the occult. In addition to her 2004 book\u00a0Leonora Carrington: Surrealism, Alchemy and Art<\/em>\u00a0(Lund Humphries), she has contributed to\u00a0Seeking the Marvelous: Ithell Colquhoun, British Women and Surrealism<\/em>\u00a0(Fulgur Press, 2020),\u00a0Agnes Pelton: Desert Transcendentalist<\/em>\u00a0(Phoenix Art Museum, 2019),\u00a0Surrealism, Occultism and Politics: In Search of the Marvelous<\/em>\u00a0(Routledge Press, 2018),\u00a0Leonora Carrington: Cuentos m\u00e1gicos<\/em>\u00a0(Museo de Arte Moderno & INBA, Mexico City, 2018),\u00a0Unpacking: The Marciano Collection<\/em>\u00a0(Delmonico Books, Prestel, 2017), and\u00a0Leonora Carrington and the International Avant-Garde<\/em>\u00a0(Manchester University Press, 2017), as well as to\u00a0Abraxas: International Journal of Esoteric<\/em>Studies<\/em>,\u00a0Black Mirror<\/em>, and the\u00a0Journal of Surrealism of the Americas<\/em>. She received her BA from the University of California, Los Angeles; MA from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University; and PhD from The Graduate Center, City University of New York. Aberth has been at Bard since 2000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"