With its signature style that marries Cubism and Surrealism with Afro-Cuban and Caribbean motifs, the art of Wifredo Lam occupies a unique position in the history of modern art. Like many modern artists, specifically Pablo Picasso, Lam participated in the primitivist movement, drawing inspiration and imagery from non-western, pre-technological cultures. Yet, unlike European and Euroamerican primitivists, Lam, who was a Cuban of Spanish, African, and Chinese descent, was engaging with his own cultural heritage in his works. His authenticity as both "primitive" and "primitivist" challenges the fundamental tenets of primitivism and makes Lam an ambiguous, fascinating figure in twentieth-century art. This wide-ranging study explores Lam's enduring contribution to world art history—the reclamation and projection of an African identity within mainstream art. Lowery Stokes Sims surveys Lam's work, focusing on the period from 1947 onwards, in which he demonstrated the viability of nationalist pursuits within modernism to a new generation of artists. She traces his career and life and the critical reception of his work in Cuba and Latin America, the United States, and Europe as each locale predominated in his career. This masterly assessment of Lam's later work demonstrates the evolution of primitivist concepts in modern art from the specifically ethnographic to the more psychic and existential. What emerges from Lam's story is the fate of Surrealism in the postwar era as it permutated into international artistic movements such as the CoBrA, the Group Phases, and the International Situationists.

Wifredo Lam and the International Avant-Garde, 1923-1982

Arts & Photography

Sims, Lowery Stokes

Individual Artists

University of Texas Press

This catalogue presents more than 30 works by first-generation American Abstract Expressionist painter Richard Pousette-Dart.

Richard Pousette-Dart

Polcari, Stephen

History & Criticism

Metropolitan Museum of Art

An exploration of Davis's propensity for continually reworking themes and motifs throughout his career.

Stuart Davis, American Painter

Betye Saar, born in Los Angeles in 1926, emerged in the 1960s as a powerful figure in the redefinition of African American art. Over the past forty years, she has injected African American visual histories into mainstream visual culture by blending spiritual, political, and cultural iconography to create complex works with universal impact. This beautifully illustrated book accompanies an exhibition of Saar's work, showcasing the extraordinary depth and breadth of her achievement. It provides multiple vantage points from which to gain a richer understanding of Saar's career, American art of the 1960s, feminism, contemporary art, and California culture and politics. Copub: University of Michigan Museum of Art

Betye Saar: Extending the Frozen Moment

Jones, Kellie

Willis, Deborah

Steward, James Christen

Cándida Smith, Richard

Ulmer, Sean

Derosier Weiss, Katharine

University of California Press

An exploration of Davis's propensity for continually reworking themes and motifs throughout his career.

Stuart Davis: American Painter

Biographies & Memoirs

With 65 paintings drawn from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, this exhibition chronicles the development of American still-life painting, from 1915 to 1995. Many prominent artists, including Andy Warhol, James Rosenquist, Georgia O'Keeffe, Jim Dine, Franz Kline, and Marsden Hartley, have incorporated unconventional iconography, subject matter, and painting techniques into the genre, enriching it with layers of meaning previously unavailable to earlier artists. The exhibition is organized by the AFA and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Still Life: The Object in American Art, 1915-1995 : Selections from the Metropolitan Museum of Art

American Federation of Arts

LIEBERMAN, William S.

Metropolitan Museum Of Art (new York, N.y.)

REWALD, Sabine

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Rizzoli Intl Pubns

Ida Applebroog: Happy families : a fifteen-year survey

Distributed by University of Washington Press

Challenge of the Modern: African-American Artists, 1925-1945

Studio Museum in Harlem

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