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Author:

Greet, Michele, 1970- author.

Title:

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

Publisher:

Yale University Press,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

vii, 288 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm.

Subject:

Art, Latin American--20th century.
Art--Paris--Paris--20th century.

Notes:

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

Summary:

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.

ISBN:

0300228422
9780300228427

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1002129876

LCCN:

2017939208

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)