Race, Anthropology, and Politics in the Work of Wifredo Lam

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 twentieth century anthropology.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über den Autor / die Autorin

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

Zusammenfassung

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 twentieth century anthropology.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Claude Cernuschi, Cernuschi Claude
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 30.06.2022
• EAN: 9781032338323
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3233832-3
• Seiten: 248
• Serie: Routledge Research in Art and Race
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Kunst > Kunstgeschichte; ART / Subjects & Themes / Plants & Animals, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, ART / History / General, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, ART / Subjects & Themes / Human Figure, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), HISTORY / Caribbean & West Indies / Cuba, ART / Art & Politics, ART / Caribbean & Latin American, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Black Studies (Global), 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, History of Art, History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -, Painting & paintings, Individual artists, art monographs, Paintings and painting