• Wifredo Lam The Imagination at Work. The font is brown and the cover of the book is a work by Lam.
  • The book is open to two pages. There are black and white images across the top of the page with an essay in black font across the bottom.
  • The book is open to two pages. There is a Lam work on the right page with a description of the work on the left. The background is white.
  • The book is open to two pages. There is a Lam work on the right page with a description of the work on the left. The background is white.
  • There are six Wifredo Lam The Imagination at Work books stacked on top of each other.
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Wifredo Lam: Imagination at Work

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Produced on the occasion of Pace’s New York survey Wifredo Lam: The Imagination at Work, this book examines the formal and thematic complexities of Wifredo Lam’s paintings and sculptures.

Foregrounding the radical nature of the Cuban artist’s syncretic visual language, the publication traces the evolution of his practice and the ways he challenged the Eurocentricity of Modernism.

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A foreword by art historian Alexander Alberro along with essays by art historians Kaira M. Cabañas and Samantha A. Noël and writer Alexandra Chang offer contemporary analyses of the work of a dynamic 20th century figure, shedding light on the social and political contexts in which Lam created his art, as well as the cultural and religious sources that informed his practice. In addition to images of Lam’s paintings, works on paper, and rarely seen bronze sculptures, the publication features a detailed chronology of the artist’s life written by Latin American art scholar and curator Michaëla de Lacaze Mohrmann, who made curatorial contributions to Pace’s exhibition.
Publication details

Contributors: Kaira M. Cabañas, Alexander Alberro, Alexandra Chang, Samantha Noël, Michaëla de Lacaze Mohrmann, Andria Hickey
Publisher: Pace Publishing
Publication date: 2022
Hardcover
174 pages: 80 color color images
11 ¾ × 9 ½ inches
ISBN: 9781948701518
Wifredo Lam The Imagination at Work. The font is brown and the cover of the book is a work by Lam.
The book is open to two pages. There are black and white images across the top of the page with an essay in black font across the bottom.
The book is open to two pages. There is a Lam work on the right page with a description of the work on the left. The background is white.
The book is open to two pages. There is a Lam work on the right page with a description of the work on the left. The background is white.
There are six Wifredo Lam The Imagination at Work books stacked on top of each other.

Wifredo Lam

Born in Cuba to a Chinese father and Congolese-Iberian mother, Wifredo Lam is widely considered one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. Having trained in Spain and France in the early years of his career, the artist became lifelong friends and associates with major figures of the European avant-garde, including Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, and Georges Braque. His work was in dialogue with key surrealist and cubist artists and, over the course of his life, Lam transformed modernist painting through his unique cross-cultural hybridization of art.

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