Race, Anthropology, and Politics in the Work of Wifredo Lam / Edition 1

by Claude Cernuschi

Overview

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 against which we can construe the meanings of Lam's art. In the process, Claude Cernuschi argues that Lam hoped to fashion a new hybrid style to foster pride and dignity in the Afro-Cuban community, as well as counteract the acute racism of Cuban culture.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780815393740
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/17/2019
Series:	Routledge Research in Art and Race
Pages:	248
Product dimensions:	6.88(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

About the Author

Claude Cernuschi is Professor of Art History at Boston College, USA.

Table of Contents

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