Parts of Lost Body (after Aimé Césaire & Pablo Picasso)
Daniel Boyd
Perimeter Editions | 2016
In this French-folded publication, nineteen artworks by Indigenous Australian artist Daniel Boyd couple selected lines from the influential, surrealist poem by Aimé Césaire Lost Body, famously illustrated by Pablo Picasso. He appropriates the Cubist artist’s economical line drawings – executed in his own unique pointillist style. Boyd brings to light Césaire’s mid-century black consciousness movement, as well as modernism’s relationship to colonialism.
Daniel Boyd, Parts of Lost Body (after Aimé Césaire & Pablo Picasso)
