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.

List 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

About the author

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

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Claude Cernuschi, Cernuschi Claude
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2022
• EAN: 9781032338323
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3233832-3
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Routledge Research in Art and Race
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; 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