1st Edition
Race, Anthropology, and Politics in the Work of Wifredo Lam
By Claude Cernuschi
Copyright 2019
248 Pages
15 Color & 63 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
248 Pages
15 Color & 63 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
248 Pages
15 Color & 63 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book reinterprets Wifredo Lam’s work with particular attention to its political implications, focusing on how these implications emerge from the artist’s critical engagement with 20th-century anthropology. Field work conducted in Cuba, including the witnessing of actual Afro-Cuban religious ritual ceremonies and information collected from informants, enhances the interpretive background... Read more
Introduction; Chapter I: Picasso; Chapter II: Surrealism;Chapter III: Abstract Expressionism; Chapter IV: The Lévy-Bruhl/Lévi-Strauss Debate; Chapter V: Detotalization, Retotalization, and Atemporality; Chapter VI: Négritude; Chapter VII: Cuba
Biography
Claude Cernuschi is Professor of Art History at Boston College, USA.
