Transatlantic encounters : Latin American artists in Paris between the wars / Michele Greet.

Transatlantic encounters : Latin American artists in Paris between the wars / Michele Greet.

9780300228427 (hardcover)
0300228422 (hardcover)

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018]

English

vii, 288 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

N6502.5 .G74 2018

709.04

Paris was the artistic capital of the world in the 1920s and '30s, providing a home and community for the French and international avant-garde. Latin American artists contributed to and reinterpreted nearly every major modernist movement that took place in the creative center of Paris between World War I and World War II, including Cubism (Diego Rivera), Surrealism (Antonio Berni and Roberto Matta), and Constructivism (Joaquin Torres-Garcia). Yet their participation in the Paris art scene has remained largely overlooked until now. This book examines their collective role, surveying the work of both household names and an extraordinary array of lesser-known artists. Michele Greet illuminates the significant ways in which Latin American expatriates helped establish modernism and, conversely, how a Parisian environment influenced the development of Latin American artistic identity.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 258-281) and index.

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