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Wifredo Lam was born and raised in Sagua La Grande, a village in the sugar farming province of Villa Clara, Cuba.He was of mixed-race ancestry: his mother, the former Ana Serafina Castilla, was born to a Congolese former slave mother and a Cuban mulatto father and his father, Yam Lam, was a Chinese immigrant. [2]
The Second Jungle Book is a sequel to The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling. [1] First published in 1895, it features five stories about Mowgli and three unrelated stories, all but one set in India, most of which Kipling wrote while living in Vermont. All of the stories were previously published in magazines in 1894–5, often under different titles.
In Paris, Wilfredo Lam met José Sainz, a fellow Cuban, and the two remained friends after Lam returned to Cuba. In the artist's life, Sainz had a significant role in tying his art to his Afro-Cuban and Caribbean heritage, which would subsequently have a significant impact on his output.
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On returning to Cuba in 1941, Lam was emboldened to create dynamic tableaux that integrated human beings, animals, and Nature. In The Jungle (1943), Lam's polymorphism creates a fantastical jungle scene featuring African motifs among the stalks of sugar cane to represent the connection between the neo-African idealism of Négritude and the ...
First US edition, Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1936, cover by Kurt Wiese. All the Mowgli Stories is a collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling.As the title suggests, the book is a chronological compilation of the stories about Mowgli from The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book, together with "In the Rukh" (the first Mowgli story written, although the last in chronological order).
But the class on Monday was filled with discussion of the Négritude and Negrismo movements that celebrated Black culture and a painting by the Afro-Asian-Latino artist Wifredo Lam.
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