Transatlantic encounters
Subtitle: Latin American artists in Paris between the wars
By: Michele Greet
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780300228427
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Art; Latin Americans; Latin American Art; Expatriate artists
Other titles: Latin American artists in Paris between the wars
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 258-281) and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1.; title: Among the Cubists -- -- Chapter 2.; title: Latin American artists in Montparnasse -- -- Chapter 3.; title: Paris : capital of Latin American -- -- Chapter 4.; title: At the salons -- -- Chapter 5.; title: At the galleries -- -- Chapter 6.; title: "Exhilarating exile" : four Latin American women exhibit in Paris -- -- Chapter 7.; title: In the press -- -- Chapter 8.; title: Joaquín Torres García in Paris : artist, innovator, organizer -- -- Chapter 9.; title: Exploring surrealism -- -- Chapter 10.; title: A pre-World War II resurgence ---- Notes-- Illustration credits-- Index.