Totem Negro XVI
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Object Details
- Artist
- María Martínez-Cañas, born Havana, Cuba 1960
- Exhibition Label
- Born in Cuba, raised in Puerto Rico, and now living in Miami, Martínez-Cañas assembled the pieces of her multifaceted identity into a totem by using a complex photographic process. She drew cubist patterns and abstracted natural forms on large-scale negatives, incorporated images drawn from Cuban colonial maps and pre-Columbian art, and printed them in black-and-white. These hybrid forms announce her multiple cultural connections and recall the paintings of Cuban artist Wilfredo Lam.
- Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art, 2013
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program
- Copyright
- © 1992, María Martínez-Cañas
- 1992
- Object number
- 1997.68
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Photography-Photoprint
- Medium
- gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- sheet and image: 53 1/2 x 9 3/8 in. (135.9 x 23.8 cm.)
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- Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection
- Department
- Graphic Arts
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Topic
- Abstract
- Record ID
- saam_1997.68
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk768ab58c2-c6be-4fd4-8532-9a0d4f0a7d2f
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