Faculty

Constellation(s): Agency, Contemporaneity, Identity, Mobility/Exchange

Jennifer Josten's research charts the flow of artists, forms, and ideas among and between Latin America, Europe, and the United States since 1940. Her interests include the art and architecture of modern Mexico and Latin America; transatlantic and regional artist-based networks and groups of the post-World War II era; and the presence of the pre-Columbian past and the indigenous present in modern and contemporary art. Her book manuscript, Mathias Goeritz: Modernist Art and Architecture in Cold War Mexico, examines the dramatic cultural and political transformations of the 1940s–1970s within and beyond Mexico through the lens of the polyvalent artistic and critical practice of German-born artist Mathias Goeritz (1915–1990).