Book Launch: Lydia Cabrera – Between the Sum and the Parts
Where: Americas Society
680 Park Ave. (at 68th Street)
212-628-3200 Price: Free
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Coco Fusco (artist, writer, and Andrew Banks Endowed chair, College of the Arts, University of Florida), Karen Marta (editor), and Gabriela Rangel (director and chief curator of Americas Society), with moderator Marcela Guerrero (curatorial assistant, Whitney Museum of American Art) discuss Lydia Cabrera: Between the Sum and the Parts, edited by Karen Marta and Gabriela Rangel and illustrated by Lydia Cabrera. The first English volume dedicated to the Cuban thinker’s life and work, this publication introduces her substantial legacy to a new audience.
Purchase the publication. The first volume in English dedicated to Cuban writer and champion of Afro-Cuban culture Lydia Cabrera (1889–1991), this lovely slipcased volume complements her stories and illustrations with essays and new scholarship by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Gabriela Rangel, Asad Raza, and Christopher Winks, with a facsmile of a story illustrated by Alexandra Exter.
Learn more about the Americas Society exhibition Trembling Thinking.
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