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The Third World
1965-66
Painted for Havana’s Presidential Palace, the mural connects revolutionary politics to Lam’s long vocabulary of hybrid beings.
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.