Posted: December 5th, 2014

Wifredo Lam

Wifredo Lam

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All papers must be typed in Times New Roman 12 point font with 1” margins and page numbers. You must include proper citations in Chicago Manual Style, a bibliography, and reproduction(s) of discussed work(s).

Drawing from one major figure or movement presented during the survey students are asked to write a research paper discussing key themes of the readings and connecting them to a specific example of art production.

A research paper is one, which is engaged with the discussions and materials presented in class in a way that is critical and informed. Students are asked to establish examples, relations, tensions and critical annotations to the readings and concepts discussed. Your research should involve a set of artistic artifacts and a set of specific themes relevant to the social history of Latin America. Successful papers will present an engagement with the polemics and open questions visited during the survey and demonstrate a formal interpretation and analysis of the art objects. 7-9 pages.

Choose one of the following examples of art production presented in lecture and/or discussed in the readings: (these examples can be expanded to other cases presented in readings and class if the student demonstrates knowledge and research of the chosen artist and art objects). You can choose to extend your previous short paper into a research paper, or you can choose one of the following themes:

Estridentismo
The Mexican School of Mural Painting
Diego Rivera
Wifredo Lam
The “Surrealist” in Latin America: Rufino Tamayo, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Carlos Merida, Frida Kahlo, Maria Izquierdo, Hector Hyppolite, Roberto Matta, Leonora Carrington, Remedios Varo, Maya Deren.

Modernism from Afro-America: Wifredo Lam Gerardo Mosquera
Everything is gonna be all right (Bob Marley)
The history of art has, to a large extent, been a Eurocentric story_ It is a construction `made in the West’ that excludes, diminishes, decontextualizes and banishes to bantustans a good part of the aesthetic-symbolic production of the world_ It is becoming increasingly urgent – especially for Latin Americans – to deconstruct it. in search of more decentralized, integrative, contextuali7ed and multidisciplinary discourses, based on dialogue, hybridization and transformation, open to an intercultural understanding of the functions, meanings and aesthetics of that production and its processes, Some time ago Etieroble invalidated ‘any theory which is based exclusively on European phenomena’, and his remark has a tinge of urgency in our field.’ This article follows the above guidelines_ It tries to interpret the work of Wifriedo Lam from Africa in the Americas. Since Lam was a paradigmatic artist of Latin American modernism, such an analysis could be extended to a reading of modern art in Latin America from Latin America_ I want to look at the work of this Cuban painter less as a product of Surrealism or in terms of the presence of ‘primitive’, African or Afro-American elements in modern art, than as a result or Cuban and Caribbean culture and as a pioneering contribution to the role of the Third World in the contemporary world,’ It is a change of viewpoint rather than a different reading. Lards cultural sources have been fully recognized, although they have always been subordinated to Western avant-garde art; they have never been examined from the point of view of their own effect on that art, in terms of their own particular construction of contemporary ‘high’ culture. The displacement to which I am referring means, for example, that the emphnsis rio longer be placed on the intervention of these cultural elements in Surrealism; rather, this movement would be seen as a space in which those elements are given expression outside their traditional sphere, transformed into agents of the avant-garde culture by themselves, This is what Lam must have meant when he said that he was a `Trojan horse’.’ This change of perspective does not correspond to a binary displacement. On the contrary, it implies recognition of Western culture as characteristic of the world today, through the global expansion of industrial capitalism, which for the first time integrated the world into a global system centred in Europe Many elements of this culture have ceased to he ‘ethnic’ and have become internationalized as intrinsic components of a world shaped by the development of the West. Art itself as a self-sufficient activity based on aesthetics, is also a product of the Western culture

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