My painting is an act of decolonization: Wifredo Lam in the cultural and political crossroad
This essay analyzes Wifredo Lam´s artistic praxis as decolonial aisthesis, carried out by a subject who referred to his painting in terms of a “mental decolonization” (Mosquera, 1980, p.12). The essay adopts a decolonial perspective for its analysis that emphasizes the epistemic, subjective and poli...
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Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades. Escuela de Letras
2021
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/heterotopias/article/view/33714 |
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| Sumario: | This essay analyzes Wifredo Lam´s artistic praxis as decolonial aisthesis, carried out by a subject who referred to his painting in terms of a “mental decolonization” (Mosquera, 1980, p.12). The essay adopts a decolonial perspective for its analysis that emphasizes the epistemic, subjective and political searches in Lam´s practices, as opposed to an aesthetic and culturalist approach. The first section revises the painter´s transatlantic cartographies and networks. The second section examines some of the approaches to his work and points out the culturalist and postcolonial analyses. The third and last section, aims to shift the terms of the analysis of Lam´s works to that of aiesthetic practices, in the context of a search, as expressed by Lam himself, of mental decolonization. The essay resituates Lam as part of anticolonial and anti-imperialist movements and considers a political and ideological facet of this artist that has become somewhat invisible under certain disciplinary perspectives that depoliticize his works, even when Lam himself expressed that he understood decolonizaiton as a struggle that needed to occur in the domain of the arts. |
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