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Wifredo Lam : imagining new worlds

Title

Wifredo Lam : imagining new worlds / edited by Elizabeth T. Goizueta.

Publication

Chestnut Hill, MA : McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, [2014]
Chicago : Distributed by University of Chicago Press

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Description

161 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 31 cm

Summary

Examines Lam (1902-1982), born in Cuba to Chinese and African-Spanish parents, as a global figure in the context of major artistic movements of the 20th century.

Alternative Title

Imagining new worlds

Subjects

Artists, Black > Cuba > 20th century > Exhibitions
Art, Modern > 20th century
Lam, Wifredo > Exhibitions
Surrealism > 20th century
Painting, Cuban > 20th century > African influences
Painting, Cuban > 20th century > Exhibitions

Note

Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, August 30-December 14, 2014, and at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, February 14-May 24, 2015.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Preface / Nancy Netzer -- Wilfredo Lam's poetic imagination and the Spanish Baroque / Elizabeth T. Goizueta -- The graphic work of Wilfredo Lam : drawing into painting / Lowery Stokes Sims -- The art of Wilfredo Lam and the anthropology of Lucien Lévy-Bruhl and Claude Lévi-Strauss / Claude Cernuschi -- Wilfredo Lam : the ascending spiral / Roberto Cobas Amate -- Mysterium tremendum et fascinans : the pre-theistic art of Wilfredo Lam / Roberto S. Goizueta -- Works in the exhibition.

Call Number

Sc G 15-77

ISBN

9781892850232
1892850230

LCCN

2014931464

OCLC

887941087

Title

Wifredo Lam : imagining new worlds / edited by Elizabeth T. Goizueta.

Publisher

Chestnut Hill, MA : McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, [2014]

Distributor

Chicago : Distributed by University of Chicago Press

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Goizueta, Elizabeth T., editor.

Lam, Wifredo. Paintings. Selections.

McMullen Museum of Art, host institution.

High Museum of Art, host institution.

Research Call Number

Sc G 15-77

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