Michele Greet
Assistant Professor
A professor of twentieth-century European and Latin American art, Michele Greet received her Ph.D. from the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU in 2004. Penn State University Press is currently preparing her book, Beyond National Identity: Pictorial Indigenism as a Modernist Strategy in Andean Art, 1920-1960, for publication as part of their Refiguring Modernism Series. Her most recent article, “Manifestations of Masculinity: The Indigenous Body as a Site for Modernist Experimentation in Andean Art,” is due to come out in December 2007 in the journal Brújula. Prior to coming to George Mason University, she worked in various capacities for El Museo del Barrio, the Americas Society, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the College Art Association and taught at the Fashion Institute of Technology, Pratt Institute, Baruch College, Hunter College, and the School for Visual Arts in New York City. She has lectured on Mexican muralism, Latin American women artists, the Ecuadorian vanguard, and
colonial Peruvian art.
Michele Greet was awarded the Hazel Junior Faculty Award and the Allan and Gwen Nelson travel grant for work on her book manuscript “Beyond National Identity: Pictorial Indigenism as a Modernist Strategy in Andean Art, 1920-1960.”
Articles published in 2006:
“Transatlantic Encounters: Latin American Artists in Paris in the 1920s.”
Global Studies Review, Fall 2006, vol. 2, no. 2.
“Pintar la nación indígena como una estrategia modernista en la obra de
Eduardo Kingman.”
Revista de Historia Procesos, Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar. no. 23, Spring 2006.
Recent Lectures and Conference Papers:
College Art Association Annual Conference, New York, NY: Session: “Depolarizing American Modernism, 1915-1940”: Paper: “The Polarization of American Modernism at the ‘American Art Today’ Exhibition at 1939 New York World’s Fair” (Feb. 2007)
Art Museum of the Americas, Organization of American States: Guest Lecture: “From Matta to Gego: Modes of Abstraction in Latin America” (June 2006)
Latin American Studies Association Annual Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico: Paper: “ ‘Freedom’ Above All Else: Exhibiting Indigenism in the United States During and After World War II” (March 2006)
Cultural Studies Faculty/Student Colloquium: “Representing Race and Identity in Postcolonial Contexts,” George Mason University: Paper: “Indigenism in 20th Century Latin American Art” (Nov. 2005)
Research Interests
Twentieth-century Andean art; Latin American artists in Europe
Office Hours (Fall 2008)
On leave
Contact
Email: mgreet@gmu.edu
Phone: 703.993.1254
Office: Robinson Hall B 371A