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Wifredo Lam : the imagination at work

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Wifredo Lam : the imagination at work / organized in partnership with Gary Nader ; with contributions by Kaira M. Cabañas, Alexander Alberro, Alexandra Chang, Samantha Noël, Michaëla de Lacaze Mohrmann, Andria Hickey.

Publication

New York : Pace, [2022]
New York, NY : Artbook D.A.P.
East Greenwich, RI : Meridian Printing

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173 pages : color illustrations, portraits; 30 cm

Summary

This chronological survey traces the Cuban painter and sculptor Wifredo Lam's (1902-82) career from the late 1930s to the '70s, spotlighting the radically syncretic visual language he developed in response to modernism's Eurocentricity. Born to a Chinese father and Congolese Iberian mother, Lam placed heritage centrally in his work. Early in his career, he associated with major figures such as Picasso, Matisse and Braque, and he was struck by their integration of African iconography. Although he greatly respected these European artists, the dissonance between their aesthetic choices and cultural experience was not lost on him--especially given the racism and exploitation that characterized Cuban society under the US-backed dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista. Lam spent the rest of his career endeavoring to decolonize modernist art. From his early Surrealist works to his later preference for geometric abstraction, African sculpture and the Afro-Caribbean diaspora consistently informed his practice. Published for an exhibition at Pace, The Imagination at Work includes paintings, works on paper and rarely seen bronze sculptures, as well as a biography of Lam's life and career by the Latin American art scholar and curator Michaëla de Lacaze Mohrmann, who made curatorial contributions to the gallery's exhibition.

Uniform Title

Wifredo Lam (Pace Gallery)

Alternative Title

Imagination at work

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Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Note

"Published on occasion of Wifredo Lam: The Imagination at Work, November 10-December 18, 2021"--Colophon.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographic references.

Contents

Foreword / Alexander Alberro -- Essays: Circa 1940: animating intimate relations / Kaira M. Cabañas -- Searching for Wifredo Lam: reclaiming, identities, and context / Alexandra Chang -- The poetics of black-Cuban sovereignty in Wifredo Lam's art / Samantha A. Noël -- Selected paintings -- Selected sculptures -- Lam's crossings and critical positions: a chronology / Michaëla de Lacaze Mohrmann -- List of works -- Afterword / Andria Hickey.

Call Number

N6605.L35

ISBN

9781948701518
1948701510

LCCN

2022930138

OCLC

1317679918
on1317679918
SCSB-14346223

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Columbia University Libraries