Wifredo Lam: when I don't sleep, I dream

Abstract

"A sweeping retrospective of the innovative and influential Cuban-born artist, bringing new perspectives to his globe-spanning life and lyrical art. Over a career spanning six decades, Wifredo Lam radically expanded the purview of modernism. Born in Cuba, he spent most of his life in Spain, France, and Italy, and came to embody the figure of the transnational artist in the twentieth century, forging a unique visual style at the confluence of European modernity and Caribbean and African diasporic cultures."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents

Foreword / Glenn D. Lowry -- A world ahead / Beverly Adams and Christophe Cherix -- Wifredo Lam, Spirited Scapes, and the Women of Water / Martin Tsang -- A Marvelous Uprootedness / María Elena Ortiz -- Wifredo Lam: Anticolonialism and Black Liberation across Borders / Lowery Stokes Sims -- La Guerra Civil: "An Antifascist Subject, Not Very Beautiful but Very Truthful" / Miriam M. Basilio Gaztambide -- Wifredo Lam in Marseille: "A Great Combat for Creation" / Terri Geis -- Revisiting La jungla / Beverly Adams -- Wifredo Lam's Kraft: A technical Study of La jungla / Laura Neufeld, Catherine H. Stephens, and Anny Aviram -- Grande Composition: A Monumental Turn / Damasia Lacroze -- The Brousse Paintings: Toward New Heights / Christophe Cherix -- Aimé Césaire and Wifredo Lam's Annonciation / Jean Khalfa -- Chronology / Damasia Lacroze.