Alejo Carpentier y Wifredo Lam: Negociaciones para un arte revolucionario

Abstract

In the forties decade, the writer Alejo Carpentier and the painter Wilfredo Lam return to Cuba after nearly 20 years of «exile» and that leads both of them to reflect on strictly Cuban issues and, to be more precise, on Afrocuban ones. This search for their own is carried out not only from the feeling of being Cuban but also from pro-European and avant-garde postulates. Cuban literature and painting arise from cosmopolitan artists for whom the «outside» and the «inside» fuse together, walking in parallel throughout their development.