DATE OF BIRTH: July l4th, 1940; in Rome, Italy

EDUCATION: M.A. Harvard University, 1969 (Social Anthropology) D. Litt. University of Rome, 1967 (Classics and History of Religions)

PRINCIPAL OCCUPATIONS

Editor and Co-Founder
RES Journal of Anthropology and Aesthetics
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, 1981 - Present.

Associate in Middle American Ethnology, Peabody Museum, Harvard University, 1974 - Present

Chair: University Seminar on the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas, Columbia University, 2005- Present

FELLOWSHIPS AND RESEARCH POSITIONS

Senior Fellow: Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America, Columbia University, 2006 - Present

Member: University Seminar on the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas, 1986 – 2005

Research Fellow, Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, 1972-1973.

Harkness Fellow, Harvard University, 1967-1969.

Member, Laboratoire d’Anthropologie Sociale, College de France 1964-1967.

Reader in Italian language and literature, Lycee Louis -le-Grand, Paris, 1965-1966.

Interim Professor of Greek, Latin and Italian languages and literatures, Liceo Torquato Tasso, Rome 1960-1963.

EDITORIAL AND PUBLISHING POSITIONS:

The Image of the Black in Western Art, Menil Foundation, Houston, Tex., and Paris, France. Editorial Coordinator for the volumes on the XVI, XVII and XVIII centuries, 1991- Present.

RES Monographs in Anthropology and Aesthetics (book series), Cambridge University Press Editor, 1986 - 1998.

XXI Century, Rizzoli, New York City. Co-founder and Associate Editor, 1991 - Present.

Normal, New York City. Editorial Counsel, 1987 - 1990
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America Indigena, Mexico City. Corresponding Editor 1982 - Present.

Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia, Bologna. Board of Editors, 1976 - Present.

Adelphi Edizioni, Milan. Member of Board of Directors, 1970 - Present
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Editorial Turner, Madrid, Member of Board of Advisors

PUBLICATIONS:

2007 "Neo-primitivism, Oriental and Occidental: Faces of Late-modern Artistic Estrangement", in Orientes-Occidentes, El Arte y La Mirada del Otro, (XXVII Coloquio Internacional de Historia del Arte), Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Instituto de Investigaciones Esteticas, 2007, pp.151-172

"Glass Walls", Editorial in, RES 52, Autumn 2007, pp. 93-96.

2006 Editorial: "RES at fifty: Revisiting the field" (in press)

"Speculum Animale: Ray Smith En El Espejo Del La Pintura", Ray Smith, Ediciones Poligrafa, S.A., Barcelona, Spain. 2006. pp. 19-72

Notes around a Visit to Thomas Glassford’s Studio (Mexico D.F., June 2005), and to La Esquina (Tijuana, October 05), Universidad Nacional Autonima de Mexico, (in press)

"Il Forno di Clemente: nota intorno ai Tandoori Satori", Francesco Clemente, MAXXI -Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome, Italy. 2006. pp. 87-89.

2005 "On the Margins of Recorded History: Anthropology and Primitivism", in Anthropologies of Art, Clark Studies in the Visual Arts, Massachusetts, 2005. pp.26-40.

2004 "Word Play: Cy Twombly and Jean-Michel Basquiat", in Twombly Basquiat Works on Paper, Briggs Robinson Gallery, New York, 2004

"Archaic and Modern Sites of the Numinous", in Hierotopy. Moscow (in press).

"MoMA’s Progress: Francis Alÿs", in The Modern Procession, Public Art Fund, New York, NY, 2004. pp. 21-30.

2003 “Desert Labyrinths and Mountain Circuits: Being a Comparison of Certain Traditional and Late-Modern Investments in the Land”, (XXV Coloquio Internacional de Historia del Arte), Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico.
2003. (in press)

2002 “Structure and Quantum Leaps: Claude Lévi-Strauss’s Early Study of the Traditional Arts”, in Arte y Ciencia, (XXIV Coloquio Internacional de Historia del Arte), Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 2002, pp. 215-228.

“MoMA’s Progress”, in Projects 76 Francis Alÿs, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2002.

“Clemente’s Old Jeans”, in Francesco Clemente - Denim Self Portraits, Jablonka Galerie, Germany, (Exhibition: June 1 - July 21, 2002).

“North by northwest: Time lapses and monumental vertigo”, Editorial, RES 42, Autumn 2002, pp. 259-264.

2001 “Amor Sui: the ‘Self’ Portrayed by Francesco Clemente”, in Amor y Desamor en las Artes, (XXIII Coloquio Internacional de Historia del Arte), Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 2001, pp. 493-515.

“Due visite allo studio di Philip Taaffe: Pasqua 2001”, pp.13-17
“Two visits to the studio of Philip Taaffe: Easter 2001”, pp.19-23
in Philip Taaffe, Edizioni Gabriele Mazzotta, Milan, 2001.

2000 “Presentation”, in Daniel Lezama -Obra seleccionada 1997-2000, Mexico, D.F., pp. 7-8.

1999 “In-Disciplined: RES, ‘Aesthetics’ and Warburg’s Wunderkammer ,“ in (In)Disciplinas: Estética e Historia del Arte en el Cruce de los Discursos, XXII Coloquio Internacional de Historia del Arte, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México, pp. 129-161.

1999 “Rooms,” Clemente, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, (Exhibition:
8 October - 9 January 1999), pp. 329 - 343.

1999 “Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Writing on the Wall,” in Jean-Michel Basquiat,
New York, 1999, pp. 312-317.

1999 Saint Clair Cemin: A Thinking Hand, Saint Clair Cemin, The Arts Club of
Chicago (Exhibition: 10 February - 3 April 1999).

1999 “Frammento Sull’Ornamento,” Palazzo delle Papesse, N. 1, Siena, Spring 1999,
pp. 55 - 57.

1998 “ Object of Worship and the Revolt of the Objects,” La Abolicion del Arte
(XXI Coloquio Internacional de Historia del Arte), Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 1998, pp. 459 - 482.

1997 “Traducere et tradere,” Editorial, RES 32, Autumn 1997, pp. 5 - 12.

1996 “The pre-Columbian,” Editorial, RES 29/30, Spring/Autumn 1996,
pp. 5-16.

1995 “Canciones de lo material,” Gariari Buruzko Begiradak Kontzeptuak or
Conceptos Miradas Sobre la Epoca, September 1995, pp. 155-70.
1995 "Remains," Editorial, RES 27 Spring 1995, pp. 5-10.

1994 "Primitive and classical models," Editorial, in RES 26, Autumn 1994, pp. 5-9.

1994 "Secrecy," Editorial, in RES 25, Spring 1994, PP. 5-9.

1993a "La Colleccion Pellizzi de Textiles de Chiapas", Artes de Mexico, no. 19, Spring, pp. 74-9.

1993b "Foreword" to Learning from Mount Hua -A Chinese Physician's Illustrated Travel Record and ~Painting Theory, by Kathlyn Liscomb, Cambridge University Press, pp. XI-XIL

1993e "Series Editor's Preface" to Dance as Text-Ideologies of the Baroque Body, by Mark Franko, Cambridge University Press, pp. XIII-XV.

1993d Review article on Africa Explores, in African Arts, January.

1992a Speculum Animale: Ray Smith and the Desire of Painting, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, The Netherlands.

1992b German Venegas: The Ahuehuete Reliefs, Carlos Ashida/Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico & Madrid (ARCO).

1992e "Multiple Cultures," Editorial in RES 22, Autumn 19921 pp.5-9

1991a "The Gathering of the Birds", in Mite y Magia en America: Los Ochenta, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico; exhibition catalogue pp. 53-89 (in Spanish translation) and pp.134-1155 (in English).

1991b "Riddles of the Model", in Witte de With, The Lectures, Witte de With & Imschoot, Uitgevers, pp. 32-51.

1990/1991 "Editorial", RES 19/20, Spring/Autumn.

1990a "Fragment on the Ornament", in Parkett, Zurich December

1990b "TOMBSTONE: Four Pieces and Coda on the Idea of Burial," in Terrazzo, Milan, March

1990e "Vertigo - by Alfred Hitchcock", in Normal 4 February.

1989a "Uncollected Thoughts on Collecting", in 1979-1989; American Italian Mexican Art, from the Collection of Francesco Pellizzi, pp. 38-56, Hofstra University, New York.

1989b On the Boarder - Julio Galan. New York.

1989c "Mesanventures de l’Art: Notes sur Magiciens de la Terre", in RES 27/18, Spring/Autumn.

1989d "Black and White All Over: Poetry and Desolation Painting", in Jean-Michel Basquait, New York.

1988a "Charon's Boat", in Artforum, November, pp. 112-117.

1988b ETHNICITIES AND NATIONS: Processes of Interethnic Relation in Latin America, South-East Asia and the Pacific, (October 1983 Conference) , R. Guidieri, F. Pellizzi & S.J. Tambiah eds., Austin 1988. "To Seek Refuge: Nation and Ethnicity in Exile" and, with Remo Guidieri, "Introduction Smoking Mirrors: Polity and Ethnicity in Modern Times".

1987a "Dyptich" (Journal of a Night" and "Nomads"), in Normal, 3.

1987b "Hypnoerotomachia Americana", in Normal, 2.

1987e "Traces", in The Menil Collection, New York.

1987d El Ritual de la Politica y la Politica del Ritual, Special issue of America Indigena, Francesco Pellizzi, ed.

1987e "Series Editor's Preface" to The Anatomy of Architecture - Ontology and Metaphor in Batammaliba Architectural Expression, by Suzanne P. Blier, Cambridge University Press, pp. XI-XIL

1986a Adventures of the Symbol: Magic for the Sake of Art, The Great Hall of the Cooper Union, New York City.

1986b "Images of the Material and the Manner of Taste; Reflections (from F.C.), Parkett, 9, pp.llL1,511, June.

1985a "For Brice Marden: 'Twelve Fragments on Surface (and some Afterthoughts)” . Parkett, 7, pp.50-551 December.

1985b "Specificity and Generality of Myth: Some Notes on Michel Perrin and Sheldon Wolin", in Journal of Social Research, Vo1. 52, no.2, pp.323 - 3116,Summer.

1985e "Through India to America: Notes on Francesco Clemente" (with the collaboration of Jean-Christophe Ammann). In Francesco Clemente, Michael Auping, ed., New York.

1982 "Misioneros y Cargos: Notas sobre Identidad y Aculturacion en los Altos de Chiapas", Introduction to a special issue of America Indigena, Ano XLII, no. 1, Enero-Marzo, pp. 7-33, Francesco Pellizzi, editor.

1981a with Remo Guidieri: "Editorial," RES 1, pp. 3-6.

1981b with Remo Guidieri: "Shadows: Nineteen Tableaux on the Cult of the Dead in Malekulat Eastern Melanesia", RES 2, pp. 5-69.

1981e "Notes from three promenades through Walter de Maria's Lightning Field, (978), in TAU/MA 7.

1975 with Remo Guidieri: "Rallentare, Lavori in Corso," Introduction to Remo Guidieri and Francesco Pellizzi eds., Simbolismo, Linguistica, Antropologia, special issue of Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia , Anno XVI, n.4 Ottobre-Dicembre, PP. 501-515.

1969 "Sorciers et Revenants; remarques sur Navaho Witchcraft de Clyde Kluckhohn," Diogene no. 65, Janvier-Mars, pp. 77-102 (also published in English).

1968a Ethnomusicologie et Radio-Television," Diogene 61 (January-March), pp. 91-123 (originally written for the UNESCO Conference on World Music in Salzburg, 1965)

1968b La cultura bianca e le tradizioni mitologiche indigene dell’Amazzonia," Ulisse, Anno XXI, n. 62, April, pp. 218 - 228.

1968e "Struttura e storia nelle scienze dell’uomo," Rasseana Italiana di Socioloaia, Anno IX, n. 3, Luglio-Settembre, pp. ~81-~85.

1967 La "Leggenda del Jurupari" del Conte Erplanno Stradelli, University of Rome (unpublished doctoral dissertation).

1961 Victory, by Joseph Conrad, translation into Italian with an essay; Milan.

FIELD RESEARCH:

Numerous visits, totaling a length of about 5 years (over a period of 25 years), to the Highlands of Chiapas, Mexico, working mainly with Maya-Tzotzil communities: healing practices religion witchcraft beliefs, native politics.

In conjunction with this activity has sponsored the gathering and analytical study of a "complete" collection of Highland Chiapas Maya weaving: The "Pellizzi Collection" is permanently installed in the museum of the ex-Convento de Santo Domingo, San Cristobal de la Casas, Chiapas, for the care of the Institute Nacional de Antropologia e Historia.

Also connected to the Chiapas research, is the creation of a 210 acre reforested natural preserve, now called "Reserva Biotica Gertrudes Duby," in the San Cristobal valley.

Long-term project of work with a Mexican-Nahuatl shaman, in Nepopualco, Morelos, Mexico, mainly with the aim of recording his autobiography. Four trips to the village of Chilchotla, Sierra Mazateca, Oaxaca, Mexico, to work with a Mazatec woman shaman. Shorter field trips to Mall, to visit the Dogon people, and to Tamil Nadu (Southern India).

CONFERENCES AND PUBLIC LECTURES:

(Not updated)

Poetry and Prose of Octavio Paz, panel moderator, The New School for Social Research, New York, May 14, 1994.

The Idea of Monument, Estudos Gerais da Arrabida Convento, Arrabida, August 16-19, 1993.

Choreographing History, University of California Research Center for the Humanities, Un. of California at Irvine, May 17th, 1993.

Gerer le Reste, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Bordeaux March 26-8, 1993: "Du reste..."

Secrecy - African Art that Conceals and Reveals, Museum of African Art, New York, February 13-14, 1993.

11 Neo-antico, Department of Philosophy, University of Rome - Tor Vergata, January 28-29 1993.

Molteplici Culture, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, May 1992 (symposium).

School of Architecture, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York, April 1992.

Casts and Canons: The Shape of Cultures Past and Present, The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, 1992

Africa Explores, Center for African Art, October 1991 (moderator).

Witte de With Museum, Rotterdam, 1990

Lennenberg Lecture, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 1989

Mafficiens de la Terre, Centre Georges Pompidou Paris, 1989

Tanner Lecture (Respondent), Clare Hall, Cambridge University, 1986

Critiques, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York City, 1984

Myth in Contemporary Culture, The New School of Social Research, New York City, October 1984.

Ethnicities and Nations, The Rothko Chapel, Houston, October 1983.

Las Civilizaciones Indigenas en el Mundo Contemporaneo, Patronato Fray Bartolome de las Casas, San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico, August 1974.

NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS:

Menil Foundation, Houston, TX “Member, Board of Directors” - 1979–2005

New York Public Library Member “Member, Committee for Exhibitions” - 2001-2006

Patronato Reserva Biotica "Gertrudis Duby," “Asesor” 1985 - Present
San Cristobal Chiapas Mexico

Patronato Fray Bartolome de las Casas Scientific Member,
San Cristobal L.C., Chiapas, Mexico. 1984 - present

Patronato "Coleccion Pellizzi" San Cristobal “Asesor”, 1984 - Present
L.C.1 Chiapas, Mexico.

Verba Foundation, New Haven, CT President 1984-1989

Process Foundation, Houston, TX Member, Board of Directors
1982 - 1998

International Circle for Research Member, Board of Directors,
in Philosophy, Houston, TX 1981-1985

Menil Foundation, Houston, TX Member, Board of Directors
1979 - present
Member, Acquisitions and Exhibitions Committee

Associacion Cultural Franz Blom, San Cristobal, Member, Scientific Council
Chiapas (Mexico) 1976 - Present

Rothko Chapel, Houston, TX Member, Board of Directors
1976 - Present

Cultural Survival, Inc., Member, Board of Advisors,
1973 -1993