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Belial, Emperor of the Flies
1948
A demonic hybrid gives political and spiritual menace a body without turning it into simple allegory.
Artist field note
Wifredo Lam
Surrealism returns to the plantation.
Appears inLatin America
The five in one idea
Lam took the formal freedoms of European modernism and redirected them toward Caribbean history, religion and colonial power.