Faculty News - Publications

This was a busy year for Professor Greet. In addition to her trip with students to Mexico City, she published her second monograph, Transatlantic Encounters: Latin American Artists in Paris Between the Wars, with Yale University Press. The book examines the ways Latin American artists contributed to an reinterpreted major modernist art movements that emerged in Paris during the 1920s and 1930s. Through extensive archival research, Professor Greet demonstrates how Latin American artists living and working in Paris in these decades established a vocabulary of modernism, including a wide range of responses to the notion of a Latin American identity. 

Through thematic chapters, Professor Greet explores the formal innovations, art world structures, and social networks employed by artists from Latin America in the hub of artistic modernism. The gorgeously illustrated book is the first major study of this topic. Mason students also assisted Professor Greet with research in preparation for the book, especially in the development of the extensive online resource Transatlantic Encounters, hosted at chnm.gmu.edu/transatlanticencounters.