Wifredo Lam by Leenhardt, Jacques
Wifredo Lam by Leenhardt, Jacques

Wifredo Lam

This beautifully illustrated book, the first monograph on Wifredo Lam since 1989, provides a comprehensive retrospective of...
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Author: Jacques Leenhardt
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Wifredo Lam by Leenhardt, Jacques

Wifredo Lam

$161.99 $90.00
Wifredo Lam by Leenhardt, Jacques

Wifredo Lam

$161.99 $90.00
Author: Jacques Leenhardt
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description

This beautifully illustrated book, the first monograph on Wifredo Lam since 1989, provides a comprehensive retrospective of the iconic Cuban artist's life and work. With the quasquicentennial of his birth approaching, recent research and cataloging have deepened our understanding of Wifredo Lam (1902-1982) and his multifaceted contributions to 20th century art and politics.

Following a long journey that began in Spain, where Lam studied the great European painters--Bosch, Du]rer, Velázquez and Goya--this book traces defining moments in his artistic evolution. Encounters with Picasso and Breton in Paris shaped his distinctive style, which existed at the heart of modernity, distinguished also by the influences of surrealism, Matisse, and African art.

Born in 1902 to a Chinese father and an African mother, Lam's work draws from both European and Afro-Caribbean visual culture in a unique synthesis of his multicultural heritage and formulative studies. Forced to flee Paris in 1940 by the Nazi occupation, Lam took refuge in Marseilles before returning to Cuba, where his visual language evolved into a powerful tool for confronting the social and political injustices of the newly globalized world.

Through thoughtful interpretation of Lam's body of work, author Jacques Leenhardt sheds light on the originality of his language, both symbolic and pictorial, and the evolution of visual art in the 20th century.



Author: Jacques Leenhardt
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Published: 11/11/2025
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 4.80lbs
Size: 12.50h x 9.70w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780500030608

About the Author
Leenhardt, Jacques: - Jacques Leenhardt is an art critic, curator, and author of numerous essays on modern and contemporary artists. He is director of social sciences at the École des Hautes Études (Paris), honorary chairman of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA), and founding member of the Archives de la Critique d'Art (GIS, Rennes). The Les Amis de Wifredo Lam association, which he has chaired since 1989, published a catalogue raisonné of Wifredo Lam's paintings and engravings which guided his own monograph on the artist. A fellow member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, he has also been a visiting professor to various universities in the United States, Germany, and Brazil.
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