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PUBLISHER
Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 9.25 x 10 in. / 160 pgs / 77 color / 13 bw.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date
Out of print

DISTRIBUTION
D.A.P. Exclusive
Catalog: SPRING 2008 p. 89   

PRODUCT DETAILS
ISBN 9780945366225 TRADE
List Price: $35.00 CAD $40.00

AVAILABILITY
Not available

EXHIBITION SCHEDULE

Miami, Miami Art Museum, 02/08/08-05/18/08

Long Beach, Museum of Latin American Art, 06/12/08-08/31/08

St. Petersburg, Dali Museum, 10/02/08-01/10/09

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HAGGERTY MUSEUM OF ART, MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY

Wifredo Lam in North America

Edited by Paula Schulze. Text by Dawn Ades, Edward Lucie-Smith, Curtis L Carter, Lowery Stokes Sims, Dawn Ades, Valerie J. Fletcher, Lou Laurin-Lam.

In the winter of 2007, Milwaukee's Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, organized and hosted the first American retrospective exhibition of Cuba's favorite Surrealist, Wifredo Lam (1902-1992). Lam's paintings craft Surrealist conjunctions from Cuban religious iconography--especially from tribal masks--and retrieve a suppressed Afro-Cuban culture that ultimately sets them apart from any movement. "With all my energy I sought to paint the drama of my country, but most of all to lend expression to the spirit of Negro man, the beauty of Negro plastic art," he once declared. This exhibition catalogue celebrates the role that North American museums, galleries and private collectors have played in bringing about a renaissance of interest in Lam's art. It particularly addresses the role of Lam's Afro-Cuban ethnicity in the development of his unusual hybridized vocabulary, a blend of Paris School, Surrealist and Afro-Cuban aesthetics. All of these issues are raised in essays by an impressive line-up of scholars, including Dawn Ades, Edward Lucie-Smith, Lou Luarin-Lam (Wifredo's widow), Curtis L. Carter, Valerie Fletcher and Lowery Stokes Sims. Wifredo Lam in America features over 60 representative drawings and paintings from North American collections.
Wifredo Lam in North America

STATUS: Out of print | 5/1/2009

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ISBN: 9781948701518
USD $50.00
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